Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the location of imprisonment of transgender prisoners.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Prison Service Instruction 07/2011 sets out NOMS policy on the care and management of prisoners who live or propose to live in a gender other than the one assigned at birth. Prisoners are normally placed according to their legally recognised gender. However, the guidelines allow room for discretion and senior prison staff will review the circumstances of every case in consultation with medical and other experts in order to protect the physical and emotional wellbeing of the person concerned along with the safety and wellbeing of other prisoners.
A review of the current policy on transgender and transsexual prisoners began earlier this year and revised policy guidance will be issued to reflect NOMS' responsibilities to transgender offenders in the community as well as in custody. The intention is to implement the guidance early in the New Year.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to publish the Memorandum of Understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, signed in September 2014.
Answered by Andrew Selous
The Information Commissioner’s Office has upheld the decision not to publish this Memorandum of Understanding. That correspondence can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2015/1432375/fs_50579089.pdf.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for which each emergency protection order was granted to a local authority in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for each application made by local authorities in England and Wales for emergency protection orders in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for which each care order was granted to a local authority in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for each application made by local authorities in England and Wales for care orders in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of convictions for driving whilst disqualified resulted in an immediate custodial sentence in each year since 2005; and how many people convicted of driving whilst disqualified who had been convicted of the same offence within the previous 10 years received an immediate custodial sentence in each of those years.
Answered by Andrew Selous
Information on sentencing and convictions from 2005-2014 for driving whilst disqualified can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website and it is available at the following link:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014
Select and open ‘Motoring data tool: with criminal justice area’.
The table below shows the numbers of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified and the numbers sentenced to immediate custody for the same offence 2005-2014 in England and Wales.
Table 1: Number of offenders1 sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified by the number of previous immediate custody received for the same offence in England and Wales, 2005 to 2014 | |||
year | Number of offenders1 |
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2005 | 9,925 |
| 5,012 |
2006 | 7,543 |
| 3,839 |
2007 | 5,754 |
| 2,820 |
2008 | 4,705 |
| 2,109 |
2009 | 3,724 |
| 1,590 |
2010 | 2,652 |
| 1,134 |
2011 | 2,309 |
| 944 |
2012 | 2,030 |
| 807 |
2013 | 1,847 |
| 696 |
2014 | 1,654 |
| 638 |
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Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC) | |||
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1. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions an offender was sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified in each year. An offender can appear more than once in the totals for each year if the offender was convicted on multiple occasions in a given year. | |||
2. Number of previous immediate custody are counts of the number of separate occasions an offender has previously received an immediate custodial sentence and is calculated from the point of their latest conviction over the period. | |||
3. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made for definition). | |||
4. 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 and are subject to revision in future editions. | |||
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) murders of staff and prisoners, (b) riots, (c) assaults on staff, (d) instances of prisoner self-harm, (e) instances of prisoner suicide, (f) instances of improper mobile telephone use and (g) absconders from open conditions have occurred in prisons in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrew Selous
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is committed to running safe establishments. Violence of any kind in prison is not tolerated and all assaults are treated extremely seriously. Any prisoner who commits an act of violence can expect to have action taken against them.
NOMS has launched a new Violence Reduction project, which has been created to gain better understanding of the causes of the current levels of violence in prisons and to make sure that there is strengthened handling of it, in terms of both prevention and response.
There is no central record of persons having been convicted of Prison staff murders. On 29 June 2015 at Blackfriars Crown Court, Lorraine Barwell, a Serco Prisoner Custody Officer, was assaulted and sadly died of her injuries. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is currently undertaking an investigation into the incident. The NOMS Investigator is working with the Metropolitan Police to ensure that the ongoing Murder investigation is not compromised.
NOMS Incident Reporting does not record riot as an incident type.
Latest published figures on prisoner deaths (homicide and self-inflicted), self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales can be found in the safety in custody publication at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual This publication provides statistics on deaths to the end of March 2015 and assaults and self-harm to the end of December 2014.
Latest published figures on absconds can be found in the prison and probation management information addendum at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314
Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many emergency protection orders there were in England between 2010 and 2015; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the level of scrutiny for such orders.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The number of Emergency Protection Orders is published as part of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication. Data is available from 2011 up to January to March 2015 and can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015.
On 24 June the Prime Minister announced a new Child Protection Taskforce chaired by the Secretary of State for Education. The Prime Minister’s announcement can be found online here: www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection. The Taskforce will lead work to: extend and accelerate reforms to the quality of social work practice and leadership; develop better multi-agency working between children’s social care, the police, health and other local services; improve local authority performance and promote innovative practice; and strengthen governance and accountability in children’s social care.