Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost has been of the Justice Data Lab.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Justice Data Lab evaluates the impact of interventions on reducing reoffending and provides organisations with a robust assessment of their effectiveness. The data requested is shown in the table below:
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab in the first 3 months of its existence, April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contributions). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £39,000 |
Number of people who worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first 3 months of its existence | 3 |
Number of people who currently work in the Justice Data Lab | 6 |
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab since its introduction in April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contribution). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £2,646,000 |
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people work in the Justice Data Lab.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Justice Data Lab evaluates the impact of interventions on reducing reoffending and provides organisations with a robust assessment of their effectiveness. The data requested is shown in the table below:
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab in the first 3 months of its existence, April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contributions). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £39,000 |
Number of people who worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first 3 months of its existence | 3 |
Number of people who currently work in the Justice Data Lab | 6 |
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab since its introduction in April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contribution). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £2,646,000 |
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse of the Justice Data Lab was in its first three months of existence.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Justice Data Lab evaluates the impact of interventions on reducing reoffending and provides organisations with a robust assessment of their effectiveness. The data requested is shown in the table below:
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab in the first 3 months of its existence, April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contributions). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £39,000 |
Number of people who worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first 3 months of its existence | 3 |
Number of people who currently work in the Justice Data Lab | 6 |
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab since its introduction in April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contribution). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £2,646,000 |
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first three months of existence.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Justice Data Lab evaluates the impact of interventions on reducing reoffending and provides organisations with a robust assessment of their effectiveness. The data requested is shown in the table below:
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab in the first 3 months of its existence, April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contributions). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £39,000 |
Number of people who worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first 3 months of its existence | 3 |
Number of people who currently work in the Justice Data Lab | 6 |
Approximate cost of the Justice Data Lab since its introduction in April 2013 (based on median salary per grade including National Insurance and pension contribution). Rounded to nearest thousand. | £2,646,000 |
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners (a) by nationality and (b) of no known country of origin were held in prisons in England and Wales on 31 December 2014.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system, including by pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.
In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.
Data on the number of foreign national prisoners in prisons in England and Wales is published in the Ministry of Justice’s quarterly population tables, which can be accessed via the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2014
Table 1.8 of the document entitled Prison population: 31 December 2013 to 31 December 2014 gives a breakdown of the England and Wales population as of 31 December 2014 by country of nationality, and includes the number for whom nationality was not recorded.
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is to the public purse of repatriating a foreign national prisoner; and how many such prisoners have been repatriated since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system including compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.
In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.
Since 2010, there have been 206 foreign national prisoners transferred from prisons in England and Wales to prisons in their country of nationality in order to serve the remainder of their sentence there. The average cost of these transfers was approximately £1,640. This figure includes all the elements of an escort, including staff costs, travel and subsistence, vehicle costs, flights, and any accommodation that might be required by staff prior to their return journey.
Following a prisoner’s transfer to another state, that receiving state will bear the costs of their continued detention until release.
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners there are in England and Wales by (a) country and (b) security category of each prison.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system, including by pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.
In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.
Data on the number of foreign national prisoners in prisons in England and Wales is published in the Ministry of Justice’s quarterly population tables, which can be accessed via the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2014
Table 1.8 of the document entitled Prison population: 31 December 2013 to 31 December 2014 gives a breakdown of the England and Wales population as of 31 December 2014 by country of nationality.
The table below provides a breakdown of the foreign national prisoner population by the category and/or type of prison in which they are held. It should be noted however, that not all prisoners will be of the same security category as the establishment in which they are held. Prisoners with a lower security categorisation may be held in a prison with a higher security designation.
Foreign National prison population as at 31 December 2014 by prison category, England and Wales | |
Prison Category(1) | Foreign National population as at 31 Dec 14 |
Local | 3,813 |
High Security | 815 |
Category B Trainer | 778 |
Category C Trainer | 2,882 |
Open | 80 |
Female open | 6 |
Female closed | 499 |
YJB/YOI | 333 |
IRC | 1,297 |
Total | 10,503 |
(1) Prisons have been categorised by their predominant function but may have secondary functions. For example, the YJB/YOI category may include some young adults. | |
These figures 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 | |
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences the foreign nationals in prison in England and Wales were convicted on the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system, including pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.
In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.
The table below details the offence types for the sentenced prison population in England and Wales, as of 31 December 2014. It also provides a breakdown to indicate whether the offender was a foreign national, a UK national, or nationality not recorded. As the table records only sentenced prisoners, it does not include remand prisoners, fine defaulters, civil prisoners or recalled prisoners.
Sentenced(1) prison population by offence type and nationality 31 December 2014 | ||||
Foreign National | UK National | Not Recorded | All | |
Violence against the person | 1,657 | 16,089 | 30 | 17,776 |
Sexual offences | 1,035 | 9,933 | 23 | 10,991 |
Robbery | 527 | 6,609 | 7 | 7,143 |
Burglary | 400 | 7,197 | 9 | 7,606 |
Theft and handling | 341 | 2,891 | 17 | 3,249 |
Fraud and forgery | 289 | 1,039 | 11 | 1,339 |
Drug offences | 1,192 | 8,588 | 27 | 9,807 |
Motoring offences | 88 | 647 | 6 | 741 |
Other offences | 819 | 5,699 | 34 | 6,552 |
Offence not recorded | 25 | 173 | 49 | 247 |
All | 6,373 | 58,865 | 213 | 65,451 |