Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2024 to Question 18951 on Crown Court: Snaresbrook, to what proportion of email correspondence Snaresbrook Crown Court responds within five-working days of receipt.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We do not hold the information requested regarding what proportion of email correspondence is responded to within five-working days of receipts at Snaresbrook Crown Court. HMCTS does not collect data on response times.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Snaresbrook Crown Court has customer service targets for dealing with (a) incoming calls and (b) written correspondence.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Snaresbrook Crown Court aims to respond to email correspondence within five-working days of receipt, but have no other local targets in place.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were known to be pregnant in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter from September 2020 to June 2021.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
On 20 September the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a new policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to the age of two in women’s prisons, which contains a range of reforms for improving the care of pregnant women. As part of the new policy, we have increased central data collection on self-declared pregnancies in women’s prisons. We are also publishing annual snapshots in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The first publication, covering July 2020-April 2021, shows that on average 26 women self-declared as pregnant across the women’s estate each week.
Whilst Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) is a national policy used across both privately managed prisons (PMPs) and public sector prisons, information within each PMP in relation to how, who, how many and why people are on an ACCT is held solely by providers and is not routinely held or collected by HM Prison and Probation Service Controllers’ Office/MoJ.
The number of pregnant women in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter, between January 2019 and December 2020, is provided below.
Quarter | Count of Women |
Jan - Mar 2019 | 7 |
Apr - Jun 2019 | 21 |
Jul - Sep 2019 | 28 |
Oct - Dec 2019 | 25 |
Jan - Mar 2020 | 16 |
Apr - Jun 2020 | 23 |
Jul - Sep 2020 | 25 |
Oct - Dec 2020 | 28 |
It is not possible for the weekly snapshots published in the HMPPS Annual Digest to be accurately converted into quarters.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those women known to be pregnant in HMP Bronzefield from March 2019 to September 2020 were under Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) monitoring for risks of self-harm and/or suicide.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
On 20 September the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a new policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to the age of two in women’s prisons, which contains a range of reforms for improving the care of pregnant women. As part of the new policy, we have increased central data collection on self-declared pregnancies in women’s prisons. We are also publishing annual snapshots in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The first publication, covering July 2020-April 2021, shows that on average 26 women self-declared as pregnant across the women’s estate each week.
Whilst Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) is a national policy used across both privately managed prisons (PMPs) and public sector prisons, information within each PMP in relation to how, who, how many and why people are on an ACCT is held solely by providers and is not routinely held or collected by HM Prison and Probation Service Controllers’ Office/MoJ.
The number of pregnant women in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter, between January 2019 and December 2020, is provided below.
Quarter | Count of Women |
Jan - Mar 2019 | 7 |
Apr - Jun 2019 | 21 |
Jul - Sep 2019 | 28 |
Oct - Dec 2019 | 25 |
Jan - Mar 2020 | 16 |
Apr - Jun 2020 | 23 |
Jul - Sep 2020 | 25 |
Oct - Dec 2020 | 28 |
It is not possible for the weekly snapshots published in the HMPPS Annual Digest to be accurately converted into quarters.