Written Question
Tuesday 9th July 2019
Asked by:
Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the unemployment rate among former male inmates compared with the rate among the general male population.
Answered by Robert Buckland
In May last year, we published our plans for reforming prison education and improving employment outcomes for ex-offenders in the Education and Employment Strategy. The strategy created a system in which each prisoner was set on a path to employment, with prison education and work geared towards employment on release from the outset.
In line with this, we introduced new performance measures to record the rates of employment for prison leavers at six weeks post-release. The Department is scheduled to publish the statistical data for this on 25 July in an annex to Community Performance Statistics on Gov.uk, at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics
Written Question
Tuesday 9th July 2019
Asked by:
Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to support people leaving prison to move directly to employment on their release.
Answered by Robert Buckland
One year ago, our Education and Employment Strategy set out plans to transform the way prisoners develop the skills they need to secure employment on release.
Since then, we have introduced the New Futures Network (NFN), which brokers partnerships between prisons and employers in England and Wales. The Network places prisoners in jobs ahead of their release as well as facilitating Release On Temporary Licence (ROTL) placements, which offer continuity and can lead to immediate employment on release.
In addition, our new ROTL framework aims to increase the number of people these opportunities are available to by allowing more prisoners to access ROTL sooner and for longer.
Written Question
Monday 8th July 2019
Asked by:
Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been prosecuted under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018.
Answered by Paul Maynard
The number of individuals proceeded against and convicted of an assault against an emergency worker can be found at:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802035/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx.
Using the pivot table, filter by ‘Offence’ for:
`8.22 Assault against an emergency worker’.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Mar 2019
Disclosure of Youth Criminal Records
"Are there not two further problems? First, the Government’s response seems to be that employers should exercise discretion, but many small employers play safety first, do not exercise discretion and just treat any disclosure as a bar to employment. A second area that causes considerable problems for many people is …..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Mar 2019
Disclosure of Youth Criminal Records
"The hon. Gentleman is rightly and very ably identifying all the issues that the current system causes for individuals and their families and therefore the impact on society if they fail to be rehabilitated. Is not there also an overall, macroeconomic issue, particularly as a number of employers are expressing …..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Mar 2019
Disclosure of Youth Criminal Records
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"T8. The Minister of State said earlier that the best help for rehabilitation is to have a job. Do we not urgently need to reform the Disclosure and Barring Service system, so we still protect the public from dangerous criminals and dangerous people, but stop blighting the lives of hundreds …..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"21. Whether he plans to review the future provision of probation services; and if he will make a statement. ..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Why will the Secretary of State not accept the conclusion of the Conservative-led Justice Committee that this is, in its words, “a mess” and may never work? Why does he not stop throwing good money after bad, cut his losses, blame his predecessor and be applauded for bringing this vital …..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"T4. My local council and police have raised concerns about the impact of court closures on their costs and on their effectiveness, especially with regard to the detrimental effect on good management of housing and reducing crime, so will the Minister undertake a proper evaluation of whether, across Government, this …..."Lord Spellar - View Speech
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