Written Question
Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Asked by:
Baroness Prentis of Banbury (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the correlation between homelessness on release from prison and reoffending rates among prisoners serving sentences of under a year.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Published statistics for 2017/18 showing the accommodation status for all offenders released from custody and offenders on community sentences can be viewed here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729062/accommodation-cirumstances-tables-2018.xlsx.
Everyone leaving custody should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release.
As part of the Government initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England, we will invest up to £6.4 million in a pilot scheme to help ex-offenders into accommodation from three prisons, namely Bristol, Pentonville and Leeds. The pilots will specifically focus on male prisoners who have served shorter sentences of under 12 months, who have been identified as having a risk of homelessness.
Furthermore, as of 1 October 2018, Prisons and Probation providers have had a “Duty to Refer” anyone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to the Local Authority. Following a referral, Local Authorities are then required to make an assessment, meaning offenders can receive meaningful housing assistance at an earlier stage irrespective of their priority need.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Dec 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am proud to have become a trustee of Nacro recently. Will the Minister continue to work with me and Nacro to reduce the number of prisoners who are released at the end of the week, which thereby reduces the number of services available to them?..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 10th December 2018
Asked by:
Baroness Prentis of Banbury (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 21 of the Victims Strategy, published in September 2018, what progress has been made on abolishing the rule of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme which denied compensation for some victims who lived with their attacker prior to 1979.
Answered by Edward Argar
- Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is planning to abolish the so-called pre-1979 “same roof rule” from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. Under this rule, a compensation award cannot be made for a criminal injury sustained by a child or adult before October 1979 if, at the time of the incident giving rise to that injury, the applicant (as a child or as an adult) and the assailant were living together as members of the same family.
We will be laying an amended Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 before Parliament in due course. The amended Scheme will remove the pre-1979 same roof rule. Importantly, it is intended to enable victims whose applications for compensation had previously been refused under this rule to reapply. Applicants will still need to meet all the remaining eligibility criteria within the Scheme.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Our legal system is respected throughout the world. What steps are being taken to ensure that that continues through Brexit and beyond?..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Civil Liability Bill [Lords]
"I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying about quantum, but I would be interested to know, theoretically, whether he objects to the idea of tariffs being appropriate for this sort of compensation. I remind him that Lord Brown said
“I am in broad agreement with the whole idea of …..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Civil Liability Bill [Lords]
"Does my hon. Friend accept that there is an emotional gain from settlement? Even those of us who are lawyers and enjoy the cut and thrust of the legal process know that bringing cases forward is a stressful experience for all claimants. It is important that we put energy and …..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Following the decision to close courts in Bicester and Banbury, will the Minister agree to meet me and a group of local magistrates to discuss the provision of a mobile court locally, such as people have in Kent?..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Bedford Prison
"This report is particularly damning, and it is the fourth such report in recent times. It talks of men who are locked up for 23 hours a day without food or lavatory paper.
I accept that the Minister is doing his level best to sort out the situation, and I …..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Victims Strategy
"I thank the Minister for his statement. This really is a great day for victims. There is much to be very pleased with in the statement and the document that joins it. Let me focus on the same-roof rule—an issue on which I have been campaigning for many years. I …..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Sep 2018
Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill
"In the interim, while we wait for a wider review of the law on hate crime generally, would it be helpful for police guidance to reflect the points that the hon. Lady is quite rightly raising, in the way that it does on sexting, for example?..."Baroness Prentis of Banbury - View Speech
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