Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group has been called to each prison in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) has been called to each prison in each year since 2010 is provided in the attached document.
The NTRG provides additional support staff or resources to prisons to help them deal with a variety of incidents. The overwhelming majority of call outs are for non-violent incidents, including where they attended as a precaution and when the situation was resolved locally.
We do not tolerate violence or disruptive behaviour in our prisons. We’ve recruited around 4,300 additional officers since October 2016 and are spending an extra £100 million on airport-style security, x-ray scanners and phone-blocking technology. This is part of the Government’s new £2.75bn investment to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones.
We are also committed to ensuring our prison officers have the tools they need to do the job safely with body worn cameras, ‘police-style’ handcuffs and restraints, and PAVA incapacitant spray.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the financial deductions levied against companies with which his Department has contracts valued at over £10 million over the life of the contract.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The Ministry of Justice holds the following information on the contract records and not within a central database, concerning Financial Remedies imposed against a supplier on Contracts valued £10 million or more for failure to meet their key performance targets or level of service required;
- The date the financial remedy was imposed;
- The value of the financial remedy;
- The reason the financial remedy was imposed.
Private providers play an important role in the Ministry of Justice. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all providers and we will not hesitate to take action where standards fall short
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent with each company providing agency staff in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
We can confirm that the below table shows the spend across the department with companies providing agency staff.
Financial year | Agencies | |||||||||
CAPITA | HAYS | BROOK STREET | ALEXANDER MANN SERVICES | SERVOCA | SKYBLUE | BLUE ARROW | BADENOCH & CLARKE | TWENTYSIX |
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2011/2012 | £ 15,722,346.03 | £ 10,753,952.00 | £ 12,237,418.63 | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 213,320.46 | £ - | £ - |
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2012/2013 | £ 21,499,236.69 | £ 16,110,202.00 | £ 29,663,430.76 | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 396,058.57 | £ - | £ - |
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2013/2014 | £ 2,217,588.93 | £ 19,013,681.00 | £ 30,996,698.33 | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 749,020.01 | £ - | £ 15,909.98 |
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2014/2015 | £ 36,607,966.38 | £ 27,064,429.00 | £ 38,364,083.55 | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 1,035,284.70 | £ - | £ 109,765.20 |
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2015/2016 | £ 49,904,326.58 | £ 14,982,843.00 | £ 45,143,872.50 | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 1,254,511.49 | £ - | £ 107,134.64 |
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2016/2017 | £ 44,811,850.00 | £ 9,646,682.00 | £ 51,529,354.19 | £ - | £ 329.52 | £ - | £ 737,934.09 | £ - | £ 95,121.73 |
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2017/2018 | £ - | £ 20,841,403.46 | £ 70,709,241.32 | £ - | £ 13,873.56 | £ - | £ 836,250.54 | £ - | £ 140,256.08 |
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2018/2019 | £ 1,850.00 | £ 23,419,385.34 | £ 73,835,255.29 | £ 33,261,710.45 | £ 7,993,500.22 | £ 2,101,058.37 | £ 780,627.35 | £ - | £ 386,399.68 |
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2019/2020 to | £ 626,953.32 | £ 9,049,561.89 | £ 37,640,648.56 | £ 23,853,921.85 | £ 4,366,995.31 | £ - | £ 389,758.54 | £ 1,074,400.49 | £ 262,466.54 |
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Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost incurred by the Legal Aid Agency was for means-testing applications for grants of exceptional funding in relation to representation at inquests before Coroners' Courts in (a) each year since 2013 (b) 2019 to date.
Answered by Wendy Morton - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The means of applicants for Exceptional Case Funding are tested in accordance with the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013, which apply to all applications for civil legal aid.
As such, it is not possible to ascribe a figure to the cost of assessing financial eligibility in ECF matters specifically, as this is not conducted under a separate process within the Legal Aid Agency.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration law legal aid providers there were in each year since 2010, by procurement area.
Answered by Wendy Morton - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
(Please see Annex attached)
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 944 on Reoffenders, how many offenders under statutory supervision have been convicted under each category of serious offence in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
We have interpreted the request to mean the number of offenders convicted of a Serious Further Offence (SFO) broken down by conviction offence type. The information you ask for is routinely published and therefore available in the public domain, and I have provided the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences. We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 next year.
Not all charges for an SFO will result in a conviction. In any year, in about 50% of cases either the charges are dropped before trial, or the offender is acquitted following trial or the offender is convicted of a less serious offence.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of unpaid work have been handed down by the courts as part of community orders in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
This information is not readily available and would require a manual search of court records which would incur disproportionate costs.
The number of community sentences issued can be found in our outcomes by offence tool:
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full-time equivalent National Compliance and Enforcement Service staff have been employed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The number of full time equivalent staff (FTE) working in the National Compliance and Enforcement Service at the end of March for each year since 2012 is as follows:
2012 1,706
2013 1,770
2014 1,640
2015 1,516
2016 1,470
2017 1,497
2018 1,573
2019 1,425
FTE figure include both agency and permanent staff. We do not hold any figures prior to March 2012 as headcount was historically included within Court FTE figures.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings and trials across the HM Courts and Tribunal Service estate used a video link or similar technology in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most recent estimate is of the cost of outstanding repairs at each prison.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
This Government is investing an additional £156million in 2020/21 to improve the conditions of existing prisons across the estate – targeting the most pressing maintenance concerns including boilers, fire safety and serveries. This underpins our commitment to a system that is decent, safe and secure.
Currently the priority maintenance backlog totals approximately £900m. This is most up to date estimate we have of the costs associated with the maintenance backlog, inclusive of resource costs.
A figure for each individual establishment is not available and would represent disproportionate cost to obtain.