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Written Question
Radicalism
Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 5.3.2 of the report of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, what the budget of the Ibaana programme is; to which prisons that programme has been rolled out; and how many prisoners have completed that programme.

Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner

To enable it to carry out its extremism programme NOMS receives funding from OSCT , which does not release the breakdown of funding per sector as this could potentially reveal where the threat to the national security is greatest. This may impact negatively on the delivery of the Prevent programme and the range of activities, including Ibaana, that are currently deployed in prisons to prevent terrorism. This could serve to weaken and prejudice the national security of the UK.

The Ibaana programme is being finalised and will be rolled out, where appropriate, in due course.


Written Question
Radicalism
Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 5.3.2 of the report of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, how many one-to-one sessions have been conducted to challenge extremist views in each prison since April 2014.

Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner

To enable it to carry out its extremism programme NOMS receives funding from OSCT , which does not release the breakdown of funding per sector as this could potentially reveal where the threat to the national security is greatest. This may impact negatively on the delivery of the Prevent programme and the range of activities, including Ibaana, that are currently deployed in prisons to prevent terrorism. This could serve to weaken and prejudice the national security of the UK.

The Ibaana programme is being finalised and will be rolled out, where appropriate, in due course.


Written Question
Network Rail
Monday 8th September 2014

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Rail framework agreement published on 1 September 2014, when he plans to lay the draft regulations to make Network Rail subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and under what parliamentary procedure he plans to ask the House to approve those regulations.

Answered by Simon Hughes

Draft regulations to extend the Freedom of Information Act to Network Rail in relation to functions of a public nature that it performs will be laid as soon as possible so that it is subject to the Act by April 2015 at the latest. The regulations, to be made under section 5 of the Act, are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.


Written Question
Network Rail
Monday 8th September 2014

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons are for the time taken to lay regulations to make Network Rail subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Answered by Simon Hughes

The regulations to extend the Freedom of Information Act to Network Rail will cover the functions of a public nature that it performs in accordance with section 7(5) of the Act. The Ministry of Justice and Department for Transport will work with Network Rail to identify correctly those functions and make sure that they are appropriately described in the draft regulations before they are laid. Section 5(3) of the Act requires that we consult Network Rail about its inclusion before regulations are made.


Written Question
Driving Offences
Friday 5th September 2014

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department will publish the review of all driving offences and penalties announced on 6 May 2014.

Answered by Mike Penning

The Government’s review of driving offences and penalties announced in May is ongoing. The timing of any publication of the review’s findings and recommendations will be considered once the review is completed.


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Monday 28th April 2014

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for the offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving since its introduction in 2012; and what the average length of sentence handed out by the courts for that offence is.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

The maximum penalty for causing serious injury by dangerous driving is 5 years custody. Since the introduction of this offence on 3 December 2012, 1 person has been proceeded against at, found guilty and sentenced at a magistrates' court in England and Wales in 2012. There is too small a sample to provide a meaningful average custodial sentence length. We are keeping the law in this area under review. If any changes are needed, we will bring forward proposals.

Court proceedings data for this offence for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014 as part of the Criminal Justice Statistics 2013 publication. Please note that this data presents the principal offences under which a defendant has been proceeded against. If a defendant has been proceeded against for two or more offences it is the offence with the higher or highest maximum penalty that is selected.