Asked by: Barbara Keeley (Labour - Worsley and Eccles South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 2118 on Music: education, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) consultations and (b) legal advice on proposals to change the structure of music education hubs.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
As set out in the Answer to Question 2118, as part of the refreshed National Plan for Music Education, published in June 2022, the government set out its intention to re-compete the hubs lead organisation (HLO) role and reduce the number of HLOs. Alongside these reforms, the Department also committed significant funding for the Music Hubs programme, with £79 million per annum revenue funding to academic year 2024/25 and an additional £25 million capital for instruments and musical equipment.
Music Hubs are partnerships co-ordinated by a HLO and made up of schools and academy trusts, local authorities, music and wider arts and education organisations and charities, community or youth organisations, and more. When launched in 2012, there were 123 Music Hubs covering the 152 upper-tier local authority (LA) areas in England. Following various transfers and restructures over the last ten years, there are now 118 HLOs: 98 covering single LA areas and 20 covering multi-LA areas. These changes reflect the approach which other similar initiatives and infrastructure that are relevant to the lives of children and young people have taken, including Teaching School Hubs, English and Maths Hubs, Multi Academy Trusts, Local Enterprise Partnerships and Sport England’s Active Partnerships.
Having 43 HLOs working across a wider set of music education partnerships from September 2024 should bring significant benefits to children, young people and schools, as HLOs will be able to more strategic, building stronger partnerships with schools, academy trusts, local authorities and others, resulting in high quality support in every local area and to ensure there are no local ‘cold spots’ where access to provision is limited. This should also support a more consistent high quality approach to music education for all children regardless of where they live or go to school, by offering:
The current Music Hubs investment programme led by Arts Council England (ACE) is due to conclude next year, with newly competed HLOs commencing from September 2024. In relation to costs competition and legal costs to date, the department has provided funding to ACE to deliver the investment programme and, as part of this programme, ACE has spent a total of £21,000 on consultation and legal advice. The department has also sought specialist legal advice in relation to aspects of the competition, and has spent a total of £29,000.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many girls have been placed at the Wetherby and Keppel Young Offender Institution in the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
During the period December 2022 to November 2023, seven girls in total were accommodated in the Keppel Unit at HMYOI Wetherby.
Data on the number of girls held in custody is published regularly as part of the Youth custody data release with the sex of those held in custody provided in table 1.3. The most recently published information confirms that as of 31 October 2023 five girls were accommodated in the Youth Secure Estate. It is not possible to disclose how many of these girls were residing in a young offender institution without risking identification of individuals.
The following link provides more detailed information relating to the population of children and young people in secure children’s homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-custody-data.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many girls are in custody; and how many and what proportion of these girls are in youth offender institutions.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
During the period December 2022 to November 2023, seven girls in total were accommodated in the Keppel Unit at HMYOI Wetherby.
Data on the number of girls held in custody is published regularly as part of the Youth custody data release with the sex of those held in custody provided in table 1.3. The most recently published information confirms that as of 31 October 2023 five girls were accommodated in the Youth Secure Estate. It is not possible to disclose how many of these girls were residing in a young offender institution without risking identification of individuals.
The following link provides more detailed information relating to the population of children and young people in secure children’s homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-custody-data.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase pupil access to (a) sports and (b) arts opportunities out of school.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.
That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.
Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.
Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.
Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.
We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.
The Government is additionally providing significant arts and cultural opportunities for young people both in and out of school.
This includes our creative careers promise, which is backed by £115m a year to increase young people’s access to cultural and music education. The upcoming Cultural Education Plan will support all children and young people to access a broad range of high-quality cultural and creative activities and experiences inside and outside of school. Our Enrichment Partnerships Pilot aims to improve the availability and quality of enrichment activities in up to 200 secondary schools within Education Investment Areas. In addition, 79% of the organisations in Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme portfolio are delivering activity specifically for children and young people of all ages, wherever they live.
Separately, the Government funds a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve participation in the arts for children. The National Saturday Club, for example, gives 13 to 16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study the subjects they love for free, including arts and creative subjects, on a Saturday at their local university, college or cultural institution. Government and Arts Council England also co-fund 15 National Youth Music Organisations offering large-scale, inclusive performances, high-quality music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, to help develop young people’s skills, experience, and knowledge of music, supporting them to excel as young creatives outside of school.
The National Plan for Music Education includes £25m funding for musical instruments and equipment for schools, and the Music Progression Fund supports disadvantaged pupils with music tuition. Furthermore, we have created four new Music Hub Centres of Excellence to improve inclusion and create pathways to industry for talented young people from all backgrounds.
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to utilise the expertise of trained counsellors and psychotherapists in the 10 newly announced mental health support hubs for children and young people.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are investing at least £2.3 billion extra funding a year in expanding and transforming mental health services in England by March 2024. This funding will help hubs to hire counsellors, youth workers and other local experts.
The drop-in centres offer mental health support and advice to local young people who will not need a referral by a doctor or school. Services provided include group work, counselling, psychological therapies, specialist advice and signposting to information and other services.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many special educational needs coordinators have left employment in the youth secure estate in each reporting year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
A special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (known in Wales as an Additional Learning Needs (ALN) co-ordinator) is a member of staff employed by a secure establishment or its education provider. The co-ordinator is responsible for assessing, planning, and monitoring the progress of children with special educational needs and disabilities. Co-ordinators provide teachers with individual support strategies that facilitate children’s and young people’s holistic development.
The table below provides information in relation to SEN and ALN co-ordinators at the five young offender institutions (YOIs):
SEN/ALN Co-ordinators at Young Offender Institutions in England and Wales
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
In post | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Leaversi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
In post | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Leavers1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 A SEN or ALN co-ordinator who leaves HMPPS or one of the YOIs’ education providers
Complete data in relation to secure training centres, some of which closed during the period in question, is not available.
Appointment of SEN or ALN co-ordinators at secure children’s homes is the responsibility of the local authorities that employ them.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Special Educational Needs Coordinators were employed in the youth secure estate in each reporting year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
A special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (known in Wales as an Additional Learning Needs (ALN) co-ordinator) is a member of staff employed by a secure establishment or its education provider. The co-ordinator is responsible for assessing, planning, and monitoring the progress of children with special educational needs and disabilities. Co-ordinators provide teachers with individual support strategies that facilitate children’s and young people’s holistic development.
The table below provides information in relation to SEN and ALN co-ordinators at the five young offender institutions (YOIs):
SEN/ALN Co-ordinators at Young Offender Institutions in England and Wales
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
In post | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Leaversi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
In post | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Leavers1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 A SEN or ALN co-ordinator who leaves HMPPS or one of the YOIs’ education providers
Complete data in relation to secure training centres, some of which closed during the period in question, is not available.
Appointment of SEN or ALN co-ordinators at secure children’s homes is the responsibility of the local authorities that employ them.
Asked by: Lord Woodley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prisoners serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have (1) died, (2) been transferred to secure hospitals, or (3) been sent to another country under the Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme, in each of the past 10 years.
Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
It falls to the Parole Board to determine whether the statutory release test is met when it reviews the case of a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) and the prisoner has served in full the minimum term of imprisonment, set by the Court for the purposes of retribution and deterrence. Therefore, those serving an IPP sentence will only be released where the Board assesses that they may be safely managed in the community on licence and supervised by the Probation Service. We have already reduced the number of IPP prisoners by three-quarters since we scrapped the sentence in 2012, and we continue to help those still in custody to progress towards release.
The table below provides the breakdown of those prisoners who have served 5 ,10, and 15 years over their original tariff, correct as at 30 June this year.
Table 1. Tariff-expired unreleased IPP prisoner population
Time over tariff | Total |
5 years or more | 1,140 |
10 years or more | 662 |
15 years or more | 67 |
1. Tariff length is the time between date of sentence and tariff expiry date and does not take into account any time served on remand.
2. Rows do not include the total from the preceding row
3. Figures include only unreleased IPP population.
The tables below provide a breakdown of the number of prisoners who have died, been transferred to secure hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983, or have been approved for removal to another country under Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) in the past 10 years.
The Ministry of Justice processes applications for transfer to another country under TERS; however, it does not manage or routinely record the actual removals of offenders, which is the responsibility of the Home Office. As a result, we have provided in Table 4 the number of approved applications for transfer under TERS.
Table 2. Number of deaths of IPP prisoners, 2013-2022
Year | Count |
2013 | 12 |
2014 | 21 |
2015 | 21 |
2016 | 13 |
2017 | 24 |
2018 | 22 |
2019 | 12 |
2020 | 17 |
2021 | 20 |
2022 | 20 |
4. Figures include death by homicide, natural causes, self-inflicted and other/non-natural for the unreleased and recalled IPP population.
5. Figures are derived from the HMPPS Deaths in Prison Custody database. As classification of deaths may change following inquest or as new information emerges, numbers may change from time to time.
6. Figures include incidents at HMPPS run Immigration Removal Centres and during contracted out escorts.
7. Figures do not include incidents at Medway STC. For more information on Secure Training Centres, please see Youth justice annual statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-annual-statistics.
Table 3. Number of IPP offenders transferred from prison to secure hospital under section 47 of the Mental Health Act, 2013-2022
Year | Count |
2013 | 87 |
2014 | 86 |
2015 | 72 |
2016 | 60 |
2017 | 59 |
2018 | 63 |
2019 | 59 |
2020 | 54 |
2021 | 37 |
2022 | 44 |
8. Mentally disordered offenders can be transferred to psychiatric hospital for treatment and can be kept in varying levels of security (including to psychiatric intensive care units, which are not categorised as ‘secure’). These figures show MHA transfers to secure units. Figures may contain duplicates as an offender can be transferred more than once across the years. However, within each year, only one transfer for an offender is counted.
Table 4. Approvals for transfer of IPP offenders to another country under the Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme, 2013-2022
Year | Approvals |
2013 | 63 |
2014 | 51 |
2015 | 33 |
2016 | 30 |
2017 | 15 |
2018 | 18 |
2019 | 11 |
2020 | 11 |
2021 | 3 |
2022 | 1 |
9. Figures provided relate to the number of approvals of TERS applications in each of the last 10 years. The number of approvals may not match the number of actual removals.
Note:
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by HM Prison & Probation Service. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Asked by: Lord Woodley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prisoners currently serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have served more than (1) 5, (2) 10, or (3) 15, years over their original tariff.
Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
It falls to the Parole Board to determine whether the statutory release test is met when it reviews the case of a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) and the prisoner has served in full the minimum term of imprisonment, set by the Court for the purposes of retribution and deterrence. Therefore, those serving an IPP sentence will only be released where the Board assesses that they may be safely managed in the community on licence and supervised by the Probation Service. We have already reduced the number of IPP prisoners by three-quarters since we scrapped the sentence in 2012, and we continue to help those still in custody to progress towards release.
The table below provides the breakdown of those prisoners who have served 5 ,10, and 15 years over their original tariff, correct as at 30 June this year.
Table 1. Tariff-expired unreleased IPP prisoner population
Time over tariff | Total |
5 years or more | 1,140 |
10 years or more | 662 |
15 years or more | 67 |
1. Tariff length is the time between date of sentence and tariff expiry date and does not take into account any time served on remand.
2. Rows do not include the total from the preceding row
3. Figures include only unreleased IPP population.
The tables below provide a breakdown of the number of prisoners who have died, been transferred to secure hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983, or have been approved for removal to another country under Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) in the past 10 years.
The Ministry of Justice processes applications for transfer to another country under TERS; however, it does not manage or routinely record the actual removals of offenders, which is the responsibility of the Home Office. As a result, we have provided in Table 4 the number of approved applications for transfer under TERS.
Table 2. Number of deaths of IPP prisoners, 2013-2022
Year | Count |
2013 | 12 |
2014 | 21 |
2015 | 21 |
2016 | 13 |
2017 | 24 |
2018 | 22 |
2019 | 12 |
2020 | 17 |
2021 | 20 |
2022 | 20 |
4. Figures include death by homicide, natural causes, self-inflicted and other/non-natural for the unreleased and recalled IPP population.
5. Figures are derived from the HMPPS Deaths in Prison Custody database. As classification of deaths may change following inquest or as new information emerges, numbers may change from time to time.
6. Figures include incidents at HMPPS run Immigration Removal Centres and during contracted out escorts.
7. Figures do not include incidents at Medway STC. For more information on Secure Training Centres, please see Youth justice annual statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-annual-statistics.
Table 3. Number of IPP offenders transferred from prison to secure hospital under section 47 of the Mental Health Act, 2013-2022
Year | Count |
2013 | 87 |
2014 | 86 |
2015 | 72 |
2016 | 60 |
2017 | 59 |
2018 | 63 |
2019 | 59 |
2020 | 54 |
2021 | 37 |
2022 | 44 |
8. Mentally disordered offenders can be transferred to psychiatric hospital for treatment and can be kept in varying levels of security (including to psychiatric intensive care units, which are not categorised as ‘secure’). These figures show MHA transfers to secure units. Figures may contain duplicates as an offender can be transferred more than once across the years. However, within each year, only one transfer for an offender is counted.
Table 4. Approvals for transfer of IPP offenders to another country under the Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme, 2013-2022
Year | Approvals |
2013 | 63 |
2014 | 51 |
2015 | 33 |
2016 | 30 |
2017 | 15 |
2018 | 18 |
2019 | 11 |
2020 | 11 |
2021 | 3 |
2022 | 1 |
9. Figures provided relate to the number of approvals of TERS applications in each of the last 10 years. The number of approvals may not match the number of actual removals.
Note:
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by HM Prison & Probation Service. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the average length of stay in the youth justice secure estate for people (1) on remand, and (2) sentenced, in each of the past five years.
Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Data on the median number of nights children and young people spent in custody in secure children’s homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions, broken down by remand and sentence type, are provided in the table below. The figures in the Detention & Training Order and the “Other” categories include nights spent in custody following recall.
Year | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
Remand(1) | 39 | 43 | 59 | 68 | 47 |
Detention & Training Order | 92 | 91 | 97 | 115 | 91 |
Other(2) | 291 | 294 | 301 | 193 | 258 |
(1) Based on data from the Youth Justice Application Framework (YJAF), separate from adult offender data which is derived from the National Offender Management Information System (NOMIS).
(2) The sentences included in this category are those provided in: sections 90 and 91 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000; sections 226, 226B and 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; and sections 250 and 259 of the Sentencing Act 2020, Also included in this category are young people in custody under a civil order for breaching a gang injunction.