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Written Question
Foston Hall Prison: Pregnancy
Monday 7th June 2021

Asked by: Baroness Beckett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were known to be pregnant while (a) on remand or (b) serving a sentence in HMP Foston Hall set out by ethnicity in each quarter from 31 March 2015 to 30 September 2020.

Answered by Alex Chalk

We do not currently publish pregnancy data routinely.

As part of our fundamental review of policy relating to mothers and expectant mothers in prison, we have committed to providing national pregnancy data in future.

Further information on the review, including our findings and resulting reforms regarding data collection, can be found in our summary report published in July 2020: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Sep 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

"On Thursday, the Secretary of State said in this House that this debate and the Bill are not about whether the United Kingdom leaves the European Union; I wish he could convince some of his colleagues of that, as they continue to make that argument even when it is totally …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Sep 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

"I have a slight advantage over the hon. Gentleman in that I was in the House before programme motions existed. All I can say is that I part company with him if he thinks that it is better for people to spend hours, indeed days—I mean literally days—discussing whether a …..."
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Written Question
Care Proceedings: Eastern Europe
Monday 29th February 2016

Asked by: Baroness Beckett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the number of care proceedings involving children and families from countries in Eastern Europe in the latest period for which figures are available.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Justice about the nationality (or ethnicity) of the children and families involved in family court proceedings in England and Wales.