Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what dates contracts were awarded to Carillion plc in relation to HMP Bedford; and what the value of those contracts was.
Answered by Rory Stewart
None of the Carillion staff at HMP Bedford have been served notice since 1 January 2017 and the staff will continue to work for the Official Receiver to ensure continuity of services.
There are currently 12 directly employed, and 6 agency staff members, employed by Carillion plc at HMP Bedford.
Carillion provide a wide range of facilities management services at HMP Bedford. These include, but are not limited to, planned and reactive maintenance, landscaping and cleaning.
Carillion AMBS Ltd (a subsidiary of Carillion PLC) was awarded two contracts in January 2015 with services commencing in June 2015. The total contract value was £98.8m and £100.2m.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of people employed by Carillion plc at HMP Bedford.
Answered by Rory Stewart
None of the Carillion staff at HMP Bedford have been served notice since 1 January 2017 and the staff will continue to work for the Official Receiver to ensure continuity of services.
There are currently 12 directly employed, and 6 agency staff members, employed by Carillion plc at HMP Bedford.
Carillion provide a wide range of facilities management services at HMP Bedford. These include, but are not limited to, planned and reactive maintenance, landscaping and cleaning.
Carillion AMBS Ltd (a subsidiary of Carillion PLC) was awarded two contracts in January 2015 with services commencing in June 2015. The total contract value was £98.8m and £100.2m.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what facilities management services are provided by Carillion plc at HMP Bedford.
Answered by Rory Stewart
None of the Carillion staff at HMP Bedford have been served notice since 1 January 2017 and the staff will continue to work for the Official Receiver to ensure continuity of services.
There are currently 12 directly employed, and 6 agency staff members, employed by Carillion plc at HMP Bedford.
Carillion provide a wide range of facilities management services at HMP Bedford. These include, but are not limited to, planned and reactive maintenance, landscaping and cleaning.
Carillion AMBS Ltd (a subsidiary of Carillion PLC) was awarded two contracts in January 2015 with services commencing in June 2015. The total contract value was £98.8m and £100.2m.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What assessment he has made of trends in access to justice resulting from court and tribunal service closures in England and Wales.
Answered by Dominic Raab
We are investing over £1bn to transform our justice system providing new ways to access justice online, reducing the need to travel to a court or tribunal building in many cases.
We will continue to monitor the performance of the justice system as we roll out our programme of reforms.
Any court or tribunal that we are considering closing is done so through a consultation and an impact assessment is published alongside this.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were subject to adjudications in HMP Bedford in 2016, and of those prisoners how many were Muslim, and what the breakdown was by ethnicity.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The number of adjudications at HM Prison Bedford in 2016, broken down by ethnicity of the prison’s prisoner population and of Muslim prisoners held at the prison, can be found in the table below.
Discipline procedures are central to the maintenance of a safe custodial environment. They are provided for by the Prison and Young Offender Institution Rules, which require adjudications to be conducted lawfully, fairly and justly.
| Total number of offences(1) | |
All adjudications at HMP Bedford | 929 | |
Ethnic breakdown of those prisoners:(2) |
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- White | 643 | |
- Mixed/multiple ethnic groups | 64 | |
- Asian or Asian British | 66 | |
- Black/African/Caribbean/Black British | 136 | |
- Other ethnic groups | 2 | |
- Not Known (3) | 18 | |
Adjudications involving Muslim prisoners | 209 | |
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Ethnic breakdown of those Muslim prisoners:(2) |
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- White | 58 | |
- Mixed/multiple ethnic groups | 30 | |
- Asian or Asian British | 48 | |
- Black/African/Caribbean/Black British | 55 | |
- Other ethnic groups | 0 | |
- Not Known (3) | 18 | |
(1) The number of offences refers to the number of adjudications for which one or more punishments may be imposed onto an offender. (2) Offences were recorded under the 2011 Census categories which have replaced the 2001 Census categories and therefore Chinese have moved from "Chinese or other ethnic group" to the "Asian/Asian British" category, and the group renamed to "Other ethnic group". This is in line with changes made to the ethnic group classifications in other National Statistic publications on populations in England and Wales following the 2011 Census. (3) Includes prisoners where ethnicity is not known either due to no recording or a recording of 'Not Stated'. |
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Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners aged (a) 19, (b) 20 and (c) 21 years old are held at HM Prison Bedford.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
As of 30 September 2017, the number of prisoners aged 19, 20 and 21 held at HM Prison Bedford was as follows:
There were 13 prisoners aged 19
There were 17 prisoners aged 20
There were 14 prisoners aged 21
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal judges and staff there were in (a) the Eastern Region and (b) Bedford in each year from 2010 to 2017.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The information requested is only available from 2012 and can be found in the tables below
Employment Tribunals Salaried Judges
Mar-12 | Mar-13 | Mar-14 | Mar-15 | Mar-16 | Mar-17 | |
Bedford | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eastern Region | 14.5 | 15.4 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.4 | 13.1 |
Employment Tribunal Staff
| Mar-12 | Mar-13 | Mar-14 | Mar-15 | Mar-16 | Mar-17 |
Bedford | 12.2 | 9.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eastern Region | 66.3 | 67.8 | 42.3 | 38.6 | 34.9 | 40 |
The Eastern Region was created on 1 April 2012 and comprised Bedford Employment Tribunal, Watford Employment Tribunal, Bury St Edmunds Tribunal, and Huntingdon Employment Tribunal. The Employment Tribunal salaried judges from Bedford Employment Tribunal transferred to Huntingdon Employment Tribunal on 1 April 2013.
In June 2015 the South East Region was created and comprised Bedford Employment Tribunals, Watford Employment Tribunal, Bury St Edmunds Tribunal, Huntingdon Employment Tribunal, Reading Employment Tribunal and Norwich Employment Tribunal.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional days of imprisonment were imposed as punishment on prisoners at HM Prison Bedford during 2016?
Answered by Sam Gyimah
During 2016, there were 26 instances of additional days awarded as a punishment following an adjudication at HM Prison Bedford, totalling 411 additional days.
Discipline procedures are central to the maintenance of a safe custodial environment. They are provided for by the Prison and Young Offender Institution Rules, which require adjudications to be conducted lawfully, fairly and justly. Independent Adjudicators are District Judges or Deputy District Judges who attend prisons and young offender institutions when necessary to hear those adjudication cases which are deemed to be sufficiently serious. Such cases may merit a punishment of additional days to a prisoner’s time spent in custody if the prisoner or young person is found guilty. Only Independent Adjudicators can make an award of additional days as a punishment. The most serious offences will be referred to the Police.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the publication of the Government's Green Paper on family justice.
Answered by Dominic Raab
I am clear that we need to look across the entire family justice system to make sure it is delivering the best outcomes for children and families, and protecting its most vulnerable users. We are working to consider what further changes are needed and will bring forward our proposals in due course.
Asked by: Mohammad Yasin (Labour - Bedford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when Bedford employment tribunal court is expected to close; which bodies were (a) consulted on and (b) notified of the proposal to close that court; what court services will remain in Bedford after that closure; and if he will publish any documents relating to that closure.
Answered by David Lidington
The Bedford Tribunal building will cease holding hearings in September 2017. This has been necessary as the lease held by HM Courts & Tribunals Service could not be renewed.
The Regional Employment Tribunal Judge wrote to tribunal users in March 2017 informing them of the change. Since HMCTS are compelled to exit the building by circumstances beyond their control, consultation was not appropriate.
Tribunal work, along with county court work, will continue to be heard in Bedford, in the Shire Hall building.