Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the percentage success rate was under the Capita TI interpreting contract in each month from 12 January to 14 March 2014
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The percentage success rates for the Capita Translation and Interpreting contract are published and can be found using the below link:
Please find below a table showing the number of assignments and total spend in 2012 in each prison on professional interpretation through the MoJ Language Services Contract with Capita Translation and Interpreting.
Prison | Spend 2012 | Number of assignments |
HMP Nottingham | £317.77 | 3 |
HMP Nottingham | £162.76 | 2 |
HMP Ranby | £155.01 | 1 |
HMP Stocken | £94.24 | 1 |
HMP Sudbury | £668.23 | 4 |
HMP The Mount | £69.75 | 1 |
HMP Wellingborough | £223.50 | 2 |
HMPYOI Foston Hall | £72.32 | 1 |
IRC Morton Hall | £36.25 | 1 |
HMP Whatton | £37,893.56 | 135 |
MoJ Shared Services | £4,635.61 | 26 |
HMP Bure | £153.01 | 2 |
HMP Highpoint | £33.58 | 1 |
HMP Usk and Prescoed | £1,855.39 | 14 |
HMP North Sea Camp | £253.73 | 2 |
HMP Norwich | £38.67 | 1 |
HMPYOI Warren Hill | £62.00 | 1 |
HMYOI Chelmsford | £411.12 | 6 |
HMP Belmarsh | £144.99 | 1 |
HMP Brixton | £136.92 | 3 |
HMP Pentonville | £403.03 | 1 |
HMP Wandsworth | £33,777.91 | 103 |
HMYOI Feltham | £31.00 | 1 |
HMP Frankland | £62.00 | 1 |
HMP Holme House | £86.99 | 1 |
HMP Garth | £155.16 | 2 |
HMP Liverpool | £654.32 | 9 |
HMP Manchester | £1,177.93 | 6 |
HMP Manchester | £1,018.55 | 5 |
HMP Preston | £33.59 | 1 |
HMPYOI Hindley | £217.66 | 6 |
HMYOI Styal | £109.07 | 2 |
HMP Swaleside | £496.04 | 2 |
HMPYOI Downview | £130.49 | 1 |
HMPYOI Reading | £4,610.72 | 28 |
HMYOI Cookham Wood | £58.00 | 1 |
HMP Send | £129.17 | 2 |
HMP Channings Wood | £124.01 | 1 |
HMP Leyhill | £293.45 | 5 |
HMP Shepton Mallet | £158.99 | 1 |
HMP The Verne | £94.24 | 1 |
HMP Hewell | £114.17 | 3 |
HMP Long Lartin | £5,320.39 | 23 |
HMPYOI Brinsford | £493.54 | 3 |
HMYOI Werrington | £86.99 | 1 |
HMP Leeds | £607.58 | 2 |
HMP Lindholme | £485.88 | 5 |
HMP Wakefield | £38.75 | 1 |
HMPYOI Askham Grange | £48.33 | 1 |
HMPYOI Moorland | £1,363.14 | 9 |
HMPYOI New Hall | £3,182.58 | 16 |
Total | £102,982.08 | 452 |
Interpreters used by the Prison Service are self employed, freelance booked and sourced via the Capita-TI contract. Each assignment constitutes a separate individual booking which can range from one hour to a few days dependent upon the requirement. The value of spend and number of assignments for HMP Wandsworth and HMP Whatton are due to the requirement for a British Sign Language interpreter for a 6 month period in each facility to aid a member of prison service staff with access to work. This requirement, whilst initially paid for by HMPS, was reimbursed by the Department of Work and Pensions.
The interpreting contract was introduced to tackle the inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the previous system. The contract has delivered significant improvements so far and we now have a system that is robust, sustainable and able to deliver a quality service at an affordable level. As a result of the contract, we have spent £27m less in the first two years it has been running, and it continues to reduce the burden on taxpayers.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on professional interpretation services by each prison in England and Wales in 2012; and on how many occasions such interpretation services were used in each prison in 2012.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The percentage success rates for the Capita Translation and Interpreting contract are published and can be found using the below link:
Please find below a table showing the number of assignments and total spend in 2012 in each prison on professional interpretation through the MoJ Language Services Contract with Capita Translation and Interpreting.
Prison | Spend 2012 | Number of assignments |
HMP Nottingham | £317.77 | 3 |
HMP Nottingham | £162.76 | 2 |
HMP Ranby | £155.01 | 1 |
HMP Stocken | £94.24 | 1 |
HMP Sudbury | £668.23 | 4 |
HMP The Mount | £69.75 | 1 |
HMP Wellingborough | £223.50 | 2 |
HMPYOI Foston Hall | £72.32 | 1 |
IRC Morton Hall | £36.25 | 1 |
HMP Whatton | £37,893.56 | 135 |
MoJ Shared Services | £4,635.61 | 26 |
HMP Bure | £153.01 | 2 |
HMP Highpoint | £33.58 | 1 |
HMP Usk and Prescoed | £1,855.39 | 14 |
HMP North Sea Camp | £253.73 | 2 |
HMP Norwich | £38.67 | 1 |
HMPYOI Warren Hill | £62.00 | 1 |
HMYOI Chelmsford | £411.12 | 6 |
HMP Belmarsh | £144.99 | 1 |
HMP Brixton | £136.92 | 3 |
HMP Pentonville | £403.03 | 1 |
HMP Wandsworth | £33,777.91 | 103 |
HMYOI Feltham | £31.00 | 1 |
HMP Frankland | £62.00 | 1 |
HMP Holme House | £86.99 | 1 |
HMP Garth | £155.16 | 2 |
HMP Liverpool | £654.32 | 9 |
HMP Manchester | £1,177.93 | 6 |
HMP Manchester | £1,018.55 | 5 |
HMP Preston | £33.59 | 1 |
HMPYOI Hindley | £217.66 | 6 |
HMYOI Styal | £109.07 | 2 |
HMP Swaleside | £496.04 | 2 |
HMPYOI Downview | £130.49 | 1 |
HMPYOI Reading | £4,610.72 | 28 |
HMYOI Cookham Wood | £58.00 | 1 |
HMP Send | £129.17 | 2 |
HMP Channings Wood | £124.01 | 1 |
HMP Leyhill | £293.45 | 5 |
HMP Shepton Mallet | £158.99 | 1 |
HMP The Verne | £94.24 | 1 |
HMP Hewell | £114.17 | 3 |
HMP Long Lartin | £5,320.39 | 23 |
HMPYOI Brinsford | £493.54 | 3 |
HMYOI Werrington | £86.99 | 1 |
HMP Leeds | £607.58 | 2 |
HMP Lindholme | £485.88 | 5 |
HMP Wakefield | £38.75 | 1 |
HMPYOI Askham Grange | £48.33 | 1 |
HMPYOI Moorland | £1,363.14 | 9 |
HMPYOI New Hall | £3,182.58 | 16 |
Total | £102,982.08 | 452 |
Interpreters used by the Prison Service are self employed, freelance booked and sourced via the Capita-TI contract. Each assignment constitutes a separate individual booking which can range from one hour to a few days dependent upon the requirement. The value of spend and number of assignments for HMP Wandsworth and HMP Whatton are due to the requirement for a British Sign Language interpreter for a 6 month period in each facility to aid a member of prison service staff with access to work. This requirement, whilst initially paid for by HMPS, was reimbursed by the Department of Work and Pensions.
The interpreting contract was introduced to tackle the inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the previous system. The contract has delivered significant improvements so far and we now have a system that is robust, sustainable and able to deliver a quality service at an affordable level. As a result of the contract, we have spent £27m less in the first two years it has been running, and it continues to reduce the burden on taxpayers.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on the purchase of televisions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The Department holds limited data in respect of question part A & B due to the termination of a previous contractor who was unable to provide detailed management information.
The Department has split the data into the spend relating to Prisoner in cell televisions and other televisions as the majority of spend relates to in cell television supply.
The cost of in cell televisions is funded directly by prisoners through a national TV rental scheme, where prisoners pay £1.00 per week for single occupancy accommodation or 50p per week for dual occupancy accommodation.
Prisoners are only allowed to participate within the rental scheme if they have earned the right through the Prisons Incentives and Earned Privilege Scheme (IEPS).
The costs of In Cell TV purchases is fully met by the TV rental scheme.
The data requested can be found below:
2013/2014 | 2014 / 2015 Until September | ||
Category | Net Spend | Category | Net Spend |
In cell televisions | £684,912 .00 | In cell televisions | £395,812.20 |
Other televisions | *No Data Available | Other televisions | £32, 027.00 |
Spend on in cell television has reduced significantly since 2012-2013 since the introduction of a national in- house repair service and central purchase and internal distribution of in cell televisions. Legacy data has been provided from 2009/2010.
2009/2010 | 2010/2011 | ||
Category | Net Spend | Category | Net Spend |
In cell televisions | £1,411,162.00 | In cell televisions | £1,104,224.09 |
Other televisions | £232,552.03 | Other televisions | £164,355 |
2011/2012 | 2012 / 2013 | ||
Category | Net Spend | Category | Net Spend |
In cell televisions | £836,038.0 | In cell televisions | £1,128,097.00 |
Other televisions | £124,334.00 | Other televisions | *No Data Available |
The national TV repair service is operated by a Prisoner workshop in the North of England that also provides educational training and purposeful activity for Prisoners.
The refurbishment of televisions also contributes towards reducing the department’s carbon reduction through minimising the purchase of new TV’s. All parts used in TV repairs are salvaged from other sets to maximise the use of unserviceable units.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were working in industrial activity in each public sector prison in England and Wales in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
I refer the Honourable Member to my response of 21 October to his earlier question (207329) on this subject: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&max=20&questiontype=AllQuestions&house=commons%2clords&member=230&dept=54&uin=207329
I am sorry for the delay in replying.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners in each prison in England and Wales were working in industrial activity in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
Work in prisons is a key priority to ensure prisoners are engaged in real work whilst they are in custody. It also gives them the opportunity to learn skills and a work ethic which can increase their chances of finding employment on release, a key element to reducing reoffending.
The number of prisoners working in industrial activity reported by public sector prisons increased from around 8,600 in 2010-11 (the first year for which figures are available) to around 9,900 in 2013-14. This delivered an increase in the total hours worked in industrial activities from 10.6 million hours to 14.2 million hours, as published in the National Offender Management Service Annual Report 2013-14: Management Information Addendum https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314.
Private sector prisons have also been supporting this agenda and have reported that they delivered over 1½ million prisoner working hours in commercial and industrial workshops in 2012-13 which provided work for over 1,200 prisoners.
An establishment-level breakdown of the average number of prisoners is set out in the table attached for the years 2010-11 to 2013-14, alongside the average population and the proportion of population that were working in industrial activities at each public sector prison site.
The variation between levels of industrial activity at each site is influenced by a number of factors, chiefly by the category and role of the prison and the types of prisoner available to work. For example the transient nature of the prisoner population in local establishments, as well as the requirements of commercial customers, mean that this is a more challenging, and often less suitable environment into which to introduce work.
The physical capacity of prisons – primarily available space and operating environment – is an additional limiting factor. Many prisoners were built without large work shops.
These differences in capacity and capability are reflected in prison Service Level Agreements and in the performance framework; establishments with higher capacity and capability to deliver industrial activity will have higher target hours and this will carry a higher weighting in the prison rating system than for establishments with lower levels of capacity.
In addition to industrial work, prisoners also take part in a large number of other activities including education, training and offending behaviour programmes. There are also a large number of prisoners who work in areas that contribute to the upkeep of the prison, for example food preparation and serving as well as cleaning.
Prison Rule 31 (1) specifies that a convicted prisoner shall be required to do useful work for not more than 10 hours a day and arrangements shall be made to allow prisoners to work, where possible, outside the cells and in association with one another.
The regime in prisons is changing for convicted prisoners as NOMS implements the benchmark core day and the opportunities it provides to extend the working day as well as the potential to increase time in other activities including education. To support this, recreational activities will take place outside the main working part of the day.
Under our reforms to the Incentives and Earned Privileges national policy framework, came into effect in adult prisons on 1 November 2013, prisoners are expected to engage in purposeful activity, as well as demonstrate a commitment towards their rehabilitation, reduce their risk of reoffending, behave well and help others if they are to earn privileges.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with determinate sentences with more than two years to serve until their earliest release date were moved to open prisons in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
I refer the hon Member to the reply I gave, the Member for Exeter on 4 September 2014, Official report, column 319W.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much NOMS has spent on subsidising its retail canteen service contract in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
I refer the hon. Member to a previous answer of 4 September 2014 to question 207330, Official Report, column 316W.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid in unemployment pay to offenders in each prison in England Wales under paragraph 2.2.1 of Prison Service Order 4460 in the latest (a) week, (b) month and (c) year for which data is available.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The National Offender Management Service's central accounting system has a single accounting code for Public Sector prisoners' earnings. It does not separately identify unemployment pay or details of the number of prisoners in receipt of such payments.
To obtain this information for both public and private prisons would require us to examine individual prisoner employment records from each establishment to establish those who are in receipt of unemployment pay last week, month and year and this would be a significant exercise and could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison in England and Wales were eligible for unemployment pay under paragraph 2.2.1 of Prison Service Order 4460 in the latest (a) week, (b) month and (c) year for which data is available.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The National Offender Management Service's central accounting system has a single accounting code for Public Sector prisoners' earnings. It does not separately identify unemployment pay or details of the number of prisoners in receipt of such payments.
To obtain this information for both public and private prisons would require us to examine individual prisoner employment records from each establishment to establish those who are in receipt of unemployment pay last week, month and year and this would be a significant exercise and could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison in England and Wales were eligible for unemployment pay as set out in paragraph 2.2.1 of Prison Service Order 4460 in the last (a) week, (b) month and (c) year for which data is available.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The National Offender Management Service's central accounting system has a single accounting code for Public Sector prisoners' earnings. It does not separately identify unemployment pay or details of the number of prisoners in receipt of such payments.
To obtain this information for both public and private prisons would require us to examine individual prisoner employment records from each establishment to establish those who are in receipt of unemployment pay last week, month and year and this would be a significant exercise and could only be done at disproportionate cost.