Asked by: Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to provide funding for social policies to (a) reduce crime and (b) improve rehabilitation of offenders.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In the year ending September 2019, 80% of offenders receiving a caution or conviction had at least one previous caution or conviction. Therefore, if we want to reduce crime then we must tackle reoffending.
The drivers of reoffending are complex, which the Criminal Justice System cannot address alone. That is why we are taking a renewed cross-government approach to tackle the drivers of reoffending across both custody and community.
We have already invested in a number of initiatives to enhance rehabilitation and reduce crime. Our £6 million accommodation pilot scheme in Leeds, Pentonville and Bristol operating since August 2019, has enrolled 323 individuals. In July we announced the Prison Leavers Project confirming £20 million of funding, aiming to support local leadership, identify innovative new ways to address reoffending and improve the social inclusion of those leaving prison.
We have also increased the probation budget by 17% this year to over £1.1 billion and will ensure the probation service continues to have the resources it needs to protect the public and reduce reoffending. Under the probation reform programme, the private and voluntary sector can still bid for a range of contracts for rehabilitation and resettlement support through the Dynamic Framework. We anticipate eventually spending over £100 million a year on these services.
Last year, we announced a £2.5 billion programme to reform the prison estate and provide 10,000 additional prison places. We will deliver four new prisons that boost rehabilitation and cut reoffending, providing improved security and additional training facilities to help offenders find employment on release. This forms a major part of our plans to transform the prison estate and create environments where offenders can be more effectively rehabilitated and turn their backs on crime.
An experimental statistical report showed that among those who committed an offence in the two years prior to engaging with treatment, 44% did not go on to reoffend in the two years following treatment (MoJ, PHE, 2017). Therefore, we support delivery of NHS England’s care after custody service, RECONNECT, for prison leavers with vulnerabilities, who would otherwise struggle to engage with community health services.
It is our ambition to go further and build on work that is already underway, focusing on improving accommodation, employment and substance misuse treatment outcomes for individuals that come into contact with the Criminal Justice System.
Asked by: Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department makes of the effect of proposed social policies on the reduction of crime.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In the year ending September 2019, 80% of offenders receiving a caution or conviction had at least one previous caution or conviction. Therefore, if we want to reduce crime then we must tackle reoffending.
The drivers of reoffending are complex, which the Criminal Justice System cannot address alone. That is why we are taking a renewed cross-government approach to tackle the drivers of reoffending across both custody and community.
We have already invested in a number of initiatives to enhance rehabilitation and reduce crime. Our £6 million accommodation pilot scheme in Leeds, Pentonville and Bristol operating since August 2019, has enrolled 323 individuals. In July we announced the Prison Leavers Project confirming £20 million of funding, aiming to support local leadership, identify innovative new ways to address reoffending and improve the social inclusion of those leaving prison.
We have also increased the probation budget by 17% this year to over £1.1 billion and will ensure the probation service continues to have the resources it needs to protect the public and reduce reoffending. Under the probation reform programme, the private and voluntary sector can still bid for a range of contracts for rehabilitation and resettlement support through the Dynamic Framework. We anticipate eventually spending over £100 million a year on these services.
Last year, we announced a £2.5 billion programme to reform the prison estate and provide 10,000 additional prison places. We will deliver four new prisons that boost rehabilitation and cut reoffending, providing improved security and additional training facilities to help offenders find employment on release. This forms a major part of our plans to transform the prison estate and create environments where offenders can be more effectively rehabilitated and turn their backs on crime.
An experimental statistical report showed that among those who committed an offence in the two years prior to engaging with treatment, 44% did not go on to reoffend in the two years following treatment (MoJ, PHE, 2017). Therefore, we support delivery of NHS England’s care after custody service, RECONNECT, for prison leavers with vulnerabilities, who would otherwise struggle to engage with community health services.
It is our ambition to go further and build on work that is already underway, focusing on improving accommodation, employment and substance misuse treatment outcomes for individuals that come into contact with the Criminal Justice System.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection in each prison in (a) England and (b) Wales for the most recent period for which information is available.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) in each prison in (a) England and (b) Wales as at 30 June 2020 is set out in Table 1. The figures are a subset of those published in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
A prisoner serving an IPP sentence will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk s/he presents to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community on licence.
IPP prisoners continue to have a high chance of a positive outcome from Parole Board hearings. In 2019/20 72% of Parole Board hearings resulted in either a recommendation for a transfer to an open prison or release. As of 30 June 2020, the number of unreleased IPP prisoners who have completed their minimum tariff was 1,856. This is down from 2,136 on 30 June 2019.
Table 1: Prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences in England, as at 30 June 2020
Establishment | N |
Total | 1905 |
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Altcourse | 7 |
Askham Grange | 4 |
Ashfield | 25 |
Belmarsh | 8 |
Buckley Hall | 26 |
Bedford | 5 |
Bristol | 6 |
Birmingham | 8 |
Bullingdon | 15 |
Bure | 29 |
Brixton | 12 |
Bronzefield | 4 |
Chelmsford | 6 |
Coldingley | * |
Channings Wood | 10 |
Dartmoor | 12 |
Dovegate | 33 |
Drake Hall | * |
Doncaster | 6 |
Downview | * |
Erlestoke | 20 |
Standford Hill (Sheppey cluster) | 18 |
East Sutton Park | * |
Eastwood Park | * |
Exeter | 3 |
Elmley (Sheppey cluster) | 17 |
Forest Bank | 7 |
Ford | 9 |
Foston Hall | 3 |
Frankland | 42 |
Full Sutton | 19 |
Featherstone | 11 |
Garth | 50 |
Guys Marsh | 6 |
Grendon/Spring Hill | 40 |
Gartree | 41 |
Hollesley Bay | 8 |
Hatfield | 5 |
Hewell | 9 |
Holme House | 23 |
Hull | 46 |
Humber | 18 |
High Down | 9 |
Highpoint (North and South) | 37 |
Haverigg | 34 |
Isle of Wight | 39 |
Kirkham | 10 |
Kirklevington Grange | 6 |
Leicester | 6 |
Leeds | 4 |
Lancaster Farms | 8 |
Lowdham Grange | 25 |
Lindholme | 20 |
Lincoln | 8 |
Long Lartin | 18 |
Low Newton | 4 |
Liverpool | 9 |
Littlehey | 75 |
Lewes | 3 |
Leyhill | 146 |
Moorland | 8 |
Manchester | 23 |
Mount | 20 |
New Hall | * |
Northumberland | 29 |
Nottingham | 10 |
North Sea Camp | 87 |
Norwich | 8 |
Onley | 13 |
Oakwood | 22 |
Peterborough (Male) | 5 |
Portland | * |
Peterborough (Female) | * |
Preston | 5 |
Pentonville | 10 |
Rochester | 3 |
Rye Hill | 25 |
Ranby | 9 |
Risley | 24 |
Send | 7 |
Stafford | 25 |
Stoke Heath | 11 |
Stocken | 16 |
Swaleside (Sheppey cluster) | 41 |
Swinfen Hall | 3 |
Sudbury | 9 |
Thorn Cross | 9 |
Thameside | * |
The Verne | 12 |
Winchester | 4 |
Wakefield | 46 |
Wealstun | 12 |
Woodhill | 17 |
Warren Hill | 51 |
Wayland | 43 |
Wymott | 65 |
Whitemoor | 26 |
Wormwood Scrubs | * |
Whatton | 117 |
Wandsworth | * |
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Table 2: Prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences in Wales, as at 30 June 20 | |
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Establishment | N |
Total | 64 |
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Berwyn | 31 |
Cardiff | 3 |
Parc | 14 |
Swansea | * |
Usk | 12 |
Prescoed | * |
Data sources and quality |
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The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. | |
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Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve resettlement for prison leavers.
Answered by Baroness Scott of Bybrook - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
We have invested an additional £22m per annum over the remaining life of the Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) contracts to deliver an enhanced Through the Gate resettlement service preparing offenders for release which includes the requirement that CRCs complete specific tasks to help prisoners to secure and maintain settled accommodation, gain employment, and manage debt and their financial affairs.
The probation reform programme will deliver an enhanced pre-release planning strategy improving the current service for all released from prison, along with access to specialist accommodation providers to reduce the risk of homelessness, and a mentoring provision to support those who struggle with the transition from prison to community to reduce the risk of recalls and build community networks. All National Probation Service (NPS) regions will have a short sentence function providing a multi-agency and responsive approach to sustain existing community links and fast track referrals into new services to improve compliance and outcomes. We will also deliver the existing NPS service-level to all CRC cases under a unified model to increase staff working within the prison service and in the community.
Accommodation pilots in Leeds, Pentonville and Bristol prisons have been operating since August 2019 and, subject to evaluation, we will inform future provision of accommodation for offenders, through the new Probation model. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Justice also secured £8.5 million to support individuals at risk of homelessness on their release from prison and help them to move on into permanent accommodation.
Seven Homelessness Prevention Taskforces have been set up to work with local authorities and other partners to find accommodation for offenders released from prison and these taskforces are still active and we are considering how the these will build on the gains made.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of inmates are housed in double cells in each prison as at September 2020.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Upon arrival into custody, all prisoners’ suitability to share a cell is risk assessed. These assessments are based on numerous factors including index offence, health concerns and security information (such as beliefs and prejudices). There are benefits to some prisoners sharing cells for the positive impact it has on mental health and stress levels, in addition to many prisoners preferring to share a cell.
The table below identifies the number of prisoners sharing cells holding two or more people as at 1 September 2020. The detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.
Prison | Total number of prisoners sharing cells | Proportion | Prison | Total number of prisoners sharing cells | Proportion |
Altcourse | 763 | 68% | Leicester | 229 | 71% |
Ashfield | 144 | 37% | Lewes | 232 | 41% |
Askham Grange | 0 | 0% | Leyhill | 0 | 0% |
Aylesbury | 0 | 0% | Lincoln | 388 | 69% |
Bedford | 239 | 65% | Lindholme | 298 | 32% |
Belmarsh | 433 | 56% | Littlehey | 68 | 6% |
Berwyn | 1040 | 61% | Liverpool | 450 | 63% |
Birmingham | 593 | 64% | Long Lartin | 0 | 0% |
Brinsford | 230 | 48% | Low Newton | 4 | 1% |
Bristol | 251 | 50% | Lowdham Grange | 8 | 1% |
Brixton | 544 | 75% | Maidstone | 8 | 2% |
Bronzefield | 138 | 27% | Manchester | 94 | 14% |
Buckley Hall | 68 | 16% | Moorland | 280 | 32% |
Bullingdon | 701 | 68% | Mount | 236 | 23% |
Bure | 4 | 1% | New Hall | 28 | 8% |
Cardiff | 450 | 62% | North Sea Camp | 127 | 35% |
Channings Wood | 80 | 12% | Northumberland | 2 | 0% |
Chelmsford | 328 | 48% | Norwich | 271 | 37% |
Coldingley | 2 | 0% | Nottingham | 408 | 49% |
Cookham Wood | 0 | 0% | Oakwood | 766 | 38% |
Dartmoor | 0 | 0% | Onley | 114 | 18% |
Deerbolt | 10 | 3% | Parc | 708 | 45% |
Doncaster | 745 | 69% | Pentonville | 774 | 75% |
Dovegate | 246 | 21% | Peterborough | 394 | 47% |
Downview | 0 | 0% | Peterborough (female) | 128 | 38% |
Drake Hall | 24 | 10% | Portland | 118 | 25% |
Durham | 742 | 82% | Prescoed | 14 | 6% |
East Sutton Park | 42 | 68% | Preston | 507 | 74% |
Eastwood Park | 108 | 31% | Ranby | 294 | 31% |
Elmley | 638 | 60% | Risley | 142 | 14% |
Erlestoke | 18 | 4% | Rochester | 278 | 44% |
Exeter | 330 | 78% | Rye Hill | 170 | 26% |
Featherstone | 76 | 12% | Send | 0 | 0% |
Feltham | 90 | 28% | Springhill | 90 | 35% |
Ford | 218 | 44% | Stafford | 438 | 66% |
Forest Bank | 831 | 59% | Standford Hill | 0 | 0% |
Foston Hall | 118 | 39% | Stocken | 232 | 23% |
Frankland | 0 | 0% | Stoke Heath | 278 | 41% |
Full Sutton | 0 | 0% | Styal | 221 | 61% |
Garth | 8 | 1% | Sudbury | 294 | 57% |
Gartree | 20 | 3% | Swaleside | 0 | 0% |
Grendon | 0 | 0% | Swansea | 288 | 77% |
Guys Marsh | 78 | 19% | Swinfen Hall | 62 | 11% |
Hatfield | 26 | 9% | Thameside | 780 | 66% |
Haverigg | 0 | 0% | Thorn Cross | 4 | 1% |
Hewell | 522 | 63% | Usk | 199 | 87% |
High Down | 660 | 57% | Verne | 96 | 17% |
Highpoint | 212 | 17% | Wakefield | 2 | 0% |
Hindley | 224 | 41% | Wandsworth | 1144 | 77% |
Hollesley Bay | 42 | 9% | Warren Hill | 0 | 0% |
Holme House | 676 | 60% | Wayland | 266 | 28% |
Hull | 542 | 55% | Wealstun | 0 | 0% |
Humber | 240 | 25% | Werrington | 0 | 0% |
Huntercombe | 123 | 30% | Wetherby | 0 | 0% |
Isis | 192 | 36% | Whatton | 104 | 13% |
Isle of Wight | 124 | 13% | Whitemoor | 0 | 0% |
Kirkham | 12 | 2% | Winchester | 228 | 47% |
Kirklevington Grange | 0 | 0% | Woodhill | 8 | 2% |
Lancaster Farms | 100 | 19% | Wormwood Scrubs | 606 | 56% |
Leeds | 791 | 76% | Wymott | 0 | 0% |
Grand Total |
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| 27714 | 35% |
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What steps he is taking to prevent homelessness among prison leavers.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Approximately 13% of offenders released between March and April this year were released homeless; which is comparable to data for 2018/19.
Everyone leaving prison should have somewhere safe and secure to live because accommodation reduces the likelihood of them reoffending.
That is why our accommodation pilots, in Leeds, Pentonville and Bristol, have been operating since August 2019 and we have secured up to £8.5 million to support individuals at risk of homelessness released from prison during Covid-19. This will help them to move into permanent accommodation.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What recent estimate he has made of the number of people released from prison without adequate accommodation.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Approximately 13% of offenders released between March and April this year were released homeless; which is comparable to data for 2018/19.
Everyone leaving prison should have somewhere safe and secure to live because accommodation reduces the likelihood of them reoffending.
That is why our accommodation pilots, in Leeds, Pentonville and Bristol, have been operating since August 2019 and we have secured up to £8.5 million to support individuals at risk of homelessness released from prison during Covid-19. This will help them to move into permanent accommodation.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2020 to Question 49084 on Prisons: Coronavirus, how many (a) cases of covid-19 and (b) covid-19 related deaths there have been in each prison in England and Wales as of 6 July 2020; and if he will publish that data on a weekly basis.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has put robust measures in place to protect staff and offenders from Covid-19 and introduce ‘compartmentalisation’, to isolate those prisoners with symptoms, shield the vulnerable and quarantine new arrivals.
Overall, prisons are seeing a decline in the numbers of new cases. The data in the table below shows the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases broken down by prison as of Friday 19 June 2020. These figures reflect the total number of recorded positive cases of Covid-19 since the first confirmed cases in mid-March, not the number of live cases. It includes individuals that have recovered.
The numbers reported will be affected by a number of variables, including the availability of testing locally which can result in differences between sites and regions and as self-reported (for staff) through HMPPS management lines for central collation.
Prison | Staff cases | Prisoner cases |
Altcourse | 24 | 14 |
Askham Grange | 4 | 0 |
Aylesbury | 4 | 0 |
Bedford | 6 | ~ |
Belmarsh | 12 | 7 |
Berwyn | 33 | 41 |
Birmingham | 22 | ~ |
Brinsford | 22 | 5 |
Bristol | ~ | 0 |
Brixton | 0 | ~ |
Bronzefield | 6 | ~ |
Buckley Hall | ~ | ~ |
Bullingdon | ~ | 0 |
Bure | ~ | 0 |
Cardiff | 24 | 22 |
Channings Wood | 14 | 9 |
Chelmsford | 10 | ~ |
Coldingley | 5 | ~ |
Dartmoor | ~ | ~ |
Deerbolt | 8 | ~ |
Doncaster | 12 | 9 |
Dovegate | 9 | ~ |
Downview | 4 | 0 |
Drake Hall | 25 | 41 |
Durham | 49 | 4 |
Eastwood Park | ~ | 0 |
Elmley | 6 | ~ |
Erlestoke | ~ | ~ |
Featherstone | ~ | ~ |
Ford | ~ | ~ |
Forest Bank | 5 | 5 |
Foston Hall | ~ | ~ |
Frankland | 12 | ~ |
Full Sutton | 4 | 0 |
Garth | 7 | 0 |
Gartree | 25 | 10 |
Grendon/Spring Hill | 0 | ~ |
Hatfield | ~ | ~ |
Haverigg | ~ | 6 |
Hewell | 42 | 9 |
High Down | 14 | ~ |
Highpoint | 12 | ~ |
Hindley | 10 | ~ |
Hollesley Bay | ~ | ~ |
Holme House | 23 | 16 |
Hull | ~ | 0 |
Humber | 41 | 10 |
Huntercombe | ~ | ~ |
Isis | 4 | 6 |
Isle of Wight | ~ | 0 |
Kirkham | 5 | ~ |
Kirklevington Grange | ~ | 0 |
Leeds | 4 | ~ |
Leicester | 6 | 5 |
Lewes | ~ | 0 |
Lincoln | ~ | 4 |
Lindholme | 10 | 0 |
Littlehey | 9 | 6 |
Liverpool | 20 | ~ |
Long Lartin | ~ | ~ |
Low Newton | 0 | ~ |
Lowdham Grange | ~ | 0 |
Maidstone | ~ | ~ |
Manchester | 19 | 20 |
Moorland | ~ | ~ |
Morton Hall (IRC) | ~ | 0 |
Mount | 9 | 5 |
New Hall | ~ | 5 |
North Sea Camp | ~ | 0 |
Northumberland | 14 | ~ |
Norwich | 6 | 0 |
Nottingham | ~ | 0 |
Oakwood | 25 | 20 |
Onley | 17 | 7 |
Parc | 6 | 7 |
Pentonville | 15 | 4 |
Peterborough (male) | 16 | ~ |
Preston | 43 | 18 |
Ranby | 8 | 5 |
Risley | 20 | 16 |
Rye Hill | 6 | ~ |
Send | ~ | 0 |
Stafford | 5 | 0 |
Standford Hill | 0 | ~ |
Stocken | 13 | ~ |
Stoke Heath | ~ | 4 |
Styal | ~ | 0 |
Sudbury | ~ | ~ |
Swaleside | ~ | 0 |
Swansea | 10 | 12 |
Swinfen Hall | 5 | 6 |
Thameside | ~ | 10 |
Thorn Cross | ~ | 0 |
Usk/Prescoed | 17 | 19 |
Verne | ~ | 0 |
Wakefield | ~ | 4 |
Wandsworth | ~ | 11 |
Wealstun | ~ | 0 |
Whatton | 0 | ~ |
Whitemoor | 10 | 6 |
Winchester | 23 | 4 |
Woodhill | 23 | 0 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 14 | 6 |
Wymott | 14 | 15 |
TOTAL | 972 | 499 |
Notes
- Only prison establishments are included in this table and not Young Offenders Institutions, Secure Training Centres or Secure Children’s Homes.
- The symbol ~ denotes suppressed values of 3 or fewer to avoid the risk of identifying individuals.
The table below shows the number of prisoners who have sadly died and Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause. This data is correct as of Friday 19 June and is broken down by prison.
Prison | Number of prisoner deaths |
Altcourse | 2 |
Bedford | 1 |
Belmarsh | 1 |
Berwyn | 1 |
Channings Wood | 2 |
Durham | 1 |
Gartree | 1 |
Leicester | 1 |
Littlehey | 3 |
Low Newton | 1 |
Manchester | 1 |
New Hall | 1 |
Oakwood | 1 |
Peterborough | 1 |
Rye Hill | 1 |
Sudbury | 1 |
Usk | 1 |
Whatton | 1 |
Winchester | 1 |
Total | 23 |
Notes
- Data for prisoner deaths represents individuals where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause.
The table below shows the number of prison staff who have sadly died having tested positive for Covid-19. This data is correct as of Friday 19 June and is broken down by prison.
Prison | Number of prison staff deaths |
Hollesley Bay | 1 |
Dovegate | 1 |
Manchester | 1 |
Pentonville | 2 |
Thameside | 1 |
Usk | 1 |
Wymott | 2 |
Total | 9 |
Notes
- Data for staff deaths represents individuals that have been confirmed as having Covid-19, though it is not necessarily the cause of death.
The Ministry of Justice has started publishing a weekly release of Covid-19 related statistics. This includes confirmed Covid-19 cases in prisoners and children in custody; and deaths among prisoners and children in custody where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause. These statistics provide total numbers across England and Wales, we do not plan to publish these statistics at an establishment level.
The statistics release can be found here each Friday:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2020 to Question 58798 on Prisoners' Release: Homelessness, whether his Department has a long-term plan to address the lack of accommodation for prison leavers; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
It is vital that everyone leaving prison has somewhere stable and secure to live. This provides a platform for ex-offenders to be able to access the services and support needed to turn their backs on crime for good. In a series of measures, the Government has demonstrated its commitment to addressing that need.
Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) are required to facilitate access to housing for the offenders under their supervision. This includes working together with local partners to help offenders find and maintain accommodation as part of a package of support tailored to meet their individual needs.
We have invested an extra £22 million per annum over the remaining life of the CRC contracts to ensure that CRCs deliver an enhanced “Through-the-Gate” service for offenders leaving prison. Alongside this investment we have introduced a new “Through-the-Gate” specification which will ensure that CRCs complete specific tasks, including helping every prisoner to secure and maintain settled accommodation.
In addition, through the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy we are investing up to £6.4 million in a pilot scheme to support individuals released from three prisons: Bristol, Leeds and Pentonville. Services have been in operation within all three areas since last summer, with the first individuals now being supported into accommodation following release. When the pilot has been evaluated, we will analyse the lessons learned and this will inform future provision of accommodation for all ex-offenders.
HMPPS are well underway to developing an Accommodation Framework that sets out their responsibilities, their partners responsibilities and a framework for how to build on success and work together with partners to ensure that offenders are able to access and maintain settled accommodation.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Government has decided that, because of public health and public protection considerations, there is a need to provide accommodation for a larger cohort of prison leavers. While this scheme is an immediate response to support prison leavers at risk of homelessness during this period, we are keen to utilise the learning gathered from it to help develop longer-term improvements. We will draw on that learning as we develop and roll out our wider reforms to probation services.
Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Wood Green)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff in each of Prisons and Young Offender Institutions have (i) been tested, (ii) tested positive and (iii) died of covid-19.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has put robust measures in place to protect staff and offenders from COVID-19 and introduce ‘compartmentalisation’, to isolate those prisoners with symptoms, shield the vulnerable and quarantine new arrivals.
The Department of Health and Social Care is solely responsible for testing for COVID-19 both in the community and in secure settings. As such, we do not hold data on the total number of prisoners and staff who have been tested.
Overall, prisons are seeing a decline in the numbers of new cases. The data in the table below shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases broken down by establishment as of Friday 12 June 2020. These figures reflect the total number of recorded positive cases of COVID-19 since the first confirmed cases in mid-March, not the number of live cases. It includes individuals that have recovered.
The numbers reported will be affected by a number of variables, including the availability of testing locally which can result in differences between sites and regions and as self-reported (for staff) through HMPPS management lines for central collation. As figures are as reported by prisons they may be subject to revision.
Establishment | Staff Cases | Prisoner Cases | Total Number of Cases by Establishment |
Altcourse | 24 | 15 | 39 |
Ashfield | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Askham Grange | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Aylesbury | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Bedford | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Belmarsh | 12 | 7 | 19 |
Berwyn | 33 | 40 | 73 |
Birmingham | 22 | ~ | ~ |
Brinsford | 22 | 5 | 27 |
Bristol | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Brixton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Bronzefield | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Buckley Hall | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Bullingdon | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Bure | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Cardiff | 24 | 22 | 46 |
Channings Wood | 15 | 9 | 24 |
Chelmsford | 10 | ~ | ~ |
Coldingley | 5 | ~ | ~ |
Cookham Wood | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Dartmoor | ~ | ~ | 4 |
Deerbolt | 8 | ~ | ~ |
Doncaster | 12 | 8 | 20 |
Dovegate | 8 | ~ | ~ |
Downview | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Drake Hall | 25 | 41 | 66 |
Durham | 46 | 4 | 50 |
East Sutton Park | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eastwood Park | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Elmley | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Erlestoke | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Exeter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Featherstone | ~ | ~ | 5 |
FelthamA | ~ | ~ | ~ |
FelthamB | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Ford | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Forest Bank | 4 | 5 | 9 |
Foston Hall | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Frankland | 12 | ~ | ~ |
Full Sutton | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Garth | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Gartree | 25 | 9 | 34 |
Grendon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guys Marsh | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hatfield | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Haverigg | ~ | 6 | ~ |
Hewell | 37 | 9 | 46 |
High Down | 14 | ~ | ~ |
Highpoint | 12 | ~ | ~ |
Hindley | 10 | ~ | ~ |
Hollesley Bay | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Holme House | 23 | 17 | 40 |
Hull | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Humber | 41 | 10 | 51 |
Huntercombe | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Isis | 4 | 6 | 10 |
Isle of Wight | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Kirkham | 5 | ~ | ~ |
Kirklevington Grange | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Lancaster Farms | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Leeds | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Leicester | 6 | 5 | 11 |
Lewes | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Leyhill | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lincoln | ~ | 4 | ~ |
Lindholme | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Littlehey | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Liverpool | 20 | ~ | ~ |
Long Lartin | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Low Newton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Lowdham Grange | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Maidstone | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Manchester | 19 | 20 | 39 |
Medway (Adult) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moorland | ~ | ~ | ~ |
New Hall | ~ | 5 | ~ |
North Sea Camp | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Northumberland | 14 | ~ | ~ |
Norwich | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Nottingham | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Oakwood | 25 | 19 | 44 |
Onley | 16 | 7 | 23 |
ParcA | ~ | 0 | ~ |
ParcB | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Pentonville | 15 | 4 | 19 |
Peterborough Female | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peterborough Male | 16 | ~ | ~ |
Portland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Prescoed | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Preston | 43 | 16 | 59 |
Ranby | 7 | 5 | 12 |
Risley | 20 | 16 | 36 |
Rochester | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rye Hill | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Send | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Stafford | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Stanford Hill | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Stocken | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Stoke Heath | ~ | 4 | ~ |
Springhill | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Styal | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Sudbury | ~ | ~ | 4 |
Swaleside | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Swansea | 10 | 12 | 22 |
Swinfen Hall | 5 | 6 | 11 |
Thameside | 4 | 10 | 14 |
The Mount | 9 | 5 | 14 |
The Verne | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Thorn Cross | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Usk | 13 | 16 | 29 |
Wakefield | ~ | ~ | 6 |
Wandsworth | ~ | 11 | ~ |
Warren Hill | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wayland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wealstun | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Werrington | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wetherby | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Whatton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Whitemoor | 10 | 6 | 16 |
Winchester | 23 | ~ | ~ |
Woodhill | 23 | 0 | 23 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 14 | 6 | 20 |
Wymott | 14 | 15 | 29 |
Total estate wide | 963 | 495 | 1458 |
The symbol ~ denotes suppressed values of 3 or fewer (and totals that would allow values of 3 or fewer to be calculated) to avoid the risk of identifying individuals.
*Data is split between Feltham A and Feltham B to account for different age groups
**Data is split between Parc A and B to account for different age groups
***Data is split for male and female sites at Peterborough
The tables below show the number of prisoners and prison staff who have sadly died having tested positive for COVID-19 or having shown symptoms. It is a matter for coroners to determine a cause of death. The data in the tables is correct as of Friday 12 June 2020.
Establishment | Number of prisoner deaths |
HMP/YOI Altcourse | 2 |
HMP/YOI Bedford | 1 |
HMP/YOI Belmarsh | 1 |
HMP Berwyn | 1 |
HMP Channings Wood | 2 |
HMP Durham | 1 |
HMP Gartree | 1 |
HMP Leicester | 1 |
HMP Littlehey | 3 |
HMP/YOI Low Newton | 1 |
HMP/YOI Manchester | 1 |
HMP/YOI New Hall | 1 |
HMP Oakwood | 1 |
HMP/YOI Peterborough | 1 |
HMP Rye Hill | 1 |
HMP/YOI Sudbury | 1 |
HMP Usk | 1 |
HMP Whatton | 1 |
HMP Winchester | 1 |
Total | 23 |
Establishment | Number of prison staff deaths |
HMP Dovegate | 1 |
HMP/YOI Hollesley Bay | 1 |
HMP/YOI Manchester | 1 |
HMP/YOI Pentonville | 2 |
HMP Thameside | 1 |
HMP Usk | 1 |
HMP/YOI Wymott | 2 |
Total | 9 |