Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds his Department allocated to contractors to manage each privately-run prison in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.
Answered by Andrew Selous
The following table shows the annual expenditure for the contracted prisons for each of the last three financial years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 for which information is available.
Prison | Operator | Direct Resource Expenditure (£000s) | ||
|
| 2011-12 (restated) | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Altcourse | G4S | 46,219 | 46,494 | 45,538 |
Ashfield | Serco | 26,426 | 27,660 | 23,451 |
Birmingham | G4S | 14,022 | 30,035 | 28,611 |
Bronzefield | Sodexo | 27,629 | 28,873 | 29,871 |
Doncaster | Serco | 19,714 | 18,273 | 17,789 |
Dovegate | Serco | 37,573 | 38,846 | 39,331 |
Forest Bank | Sodexo | 34,626 | 35,682 | 37,187 |
Lowdham Grange | Serco | 26,063 | 27,478 | 28,128 |
Northumberland | Sodexo | n/a | n/a | 11,352 |
Oakwood | G4S | n/a | 24,800 | 19,473 |
Parc | G4S | 58,529 | 59,413 | 56,708 |
Peterborough | Sodexo | 32,418 | 33,085 | 34,133 |
Rye Hill | G4S | 18,663 | 19,138 | 19,997 |
Thameside | Serco | 143 | 27,561 | 31,027 |
Wolds | G4S | 8,470 | 8,598 | 2,157 |
To note within the Table: |
1. Birmingham transferred to the management of G4S on 1st October 2011 |
2. Thameside became operational on 27th March 2012 |
3. Oakwood became operational on 24th April 2012 |
4. Wolds transferred to Public Sector management on 1st July 2013 |
5. Altcourse had Cabinet Office savings initiative from 2011 c £1m per year |
6. Altcourse had 96 Additional Prisoner Places (APP's) deactivated in Dec 2012 and 75 deactivated in April 2013 |
7. Forest Bank has a disinvestment of c £1m per year from July 2012 |
8. Parc had 138 APP's deactivated in April 2013 |
9. Oakwood had £7.2m of fixed costs included in 2012-13 |
10. Thameside became operational at the end of 2011-12 and "ramp-up" progressed through 2012-13 |
11. Northumberland (merger of HMPs Acklington and Castington) transferred to the management of Sodexo in December 2013 |
Expenditure between prisons and years is not directly comparable, as this may vary due to a number of factors, including inflation uplift, contract variations, new prisons becoming operational or prisons transferring between the public and private sector, and additional prison places being commissioned or decommissioned.
The Department is committed to delivering prison capacity changes designed to modernise the prison estate and, where possible, reduce prison costs, whilst maintaining a high quality service.
From the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 there was a real terms reduction of 17% in the overall average cost for each prisoner in England and Wales, with a reduction of 5% achieved during the last financial year 2013-14.
The Department routinely publishes annual net resource expenditure for individual prisons in England and Wales each year alongside the management information addendums to the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts. The most recently published figures for financial year 2013-14, can be accessed by the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314
The published expenditure figures for 2012-13, and restated figures for 2011-12 can be accessed by the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201213
Expenditure for financial year 2014-15 is not yet finalised and will be published in due course after the end of this financial period.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officer grade staff were employed in each private sector prison in (a) March and (b) June 2014.
Answered by Andrew Selous
The Ministry of Justice and National Offender Management Service do not hold this staffing information on prisons run by private contractors. However, the private contractors have been contacted with a request for this information. I do not have this at the current time, but when I do receive it, I will write to you again with further information.
It is a basic expectation of all prisons that they manage their staffing levels so that they are safe and able to provide appropriate custodial and other services.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will establish a fund to enable longer-term support for people who were abused as children.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Ministry of Justice provides £4.4million each year to rape support centres. These centres provide independent, specialist help and support to women and girls over the age of thirteen who have been victims of recent and historic rape or sexual abuse.
The Female Rape Support Fund now funds 84 rape support centres in England and Wales, and two more centres will open later this year. The fund has helped established 15 new centres since 2010.
Additionally, the Ministry of Justice has, for the first time, established a dedicated Male Rape Support Fund. This fund will commission specific services to ensure that men who have been raped or sexually abused at any time in their lives will have access to the help they need.
These services are available for both recent and historic cases.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to launch his consultation on guardianship for missing people.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The date for the publication of the proposed consultation paper on the possible creation of a status of guardian of the property and affairs of missing persons has not yet been set but it remains the Government's intention to publish the paper before the end of August (see my Written Ministerial Statement of 8 April 2014 (House of Commons Official Record 8 April 2014 col 8WS)).