Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4454, how many employees in HMPPS are under the Government's "Occupational Psychologist" profession, broken down into (a) forensic psychologists and (b) non-forensic psychologists.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
A range of psychology-related occupations are categorised under the “occupational psychologist” profession in official statistics. As of 8 June 2026, 496 registered psychologists were employed by HM Prison & Probation Service. 490 of these (99%) are forensic psychologists. The other groups in the occupational psychologist category are: trainee psychologists (all of whom are training to be forensic psychologists); groupworkers; treatment managers; and psychology administrators.
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.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders had their country of birth recorded as i) UK, ii) any non-UK and iii) not known for offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of weapons, (h) public order offences, (i) miscellaneous crimes against society, (j) fraud offences, (k) summary non-motoring, (l) summary motoring, (m) offence not recorded and n) all offences in each quarter since Q1 2017.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown by individual country of birth and the number of offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of weapons, (h) public order offences, (i) miscellaneous crimes against society, (j) fraud offences, (k) summary non-motoring, (l) summary motoring, (m) offence not recorded and n) all offences in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown by place of birth of those people convicted of an offence over the last year.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether forensic psychologists employed by HMPPS are categorised under the Government's 'Occupational Psychologist' profession for the purpose of official Civil Service employment statistics.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
Forensic psychologists employed by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), and those in training, are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupational Psychologist’ profession for the purpose of official Civil Service employment statistics, as are non-forensic psychologists employed by HMPPS.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to table 4 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, published on 30 April 2026, how many restricted patients detained in hospital and admitted not from prison, who had previously been discharged into the community, have there been in each year since 2005.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The data requested are not collected. To do so would require a new manual process and is therefore subject to a cost exemption. However, the annual totals of restricted patients admitted from a previous conditional discharge (via recall from the community) are published in the restricted patients’ statistics. See table 7, row 24: Restricted_Patients_Statistics_2025.ods.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of conviction occasions on the Police National Computer split by disposal category and nationality of offender, for each quarter since Q3 2024.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice keeps the contents of its Official Statistics under continuous review, to ensure compliance with the three pillars of the Code of Practice for Statistics; trustworthiness, quality and value. At present, we do not routinely publish this as part of our Official Statistics, as the information held on specific nationalities is not sufficiently robust.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of conviction occasions on the Police National Computer split by offence group and nationality of offender, for each quarter since Q3 2024.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice keeps the contents of its Official Statistics under continuous review, to ensure compliance with the three pillars of the Code of Practice for Statistics; trustworthiness, quality and value. At present, we do not routinely publish this as part of our Official Statistics, as the information held on specific nationalities is not sufficiently robust.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value of court-imposed fines outstanding in England and Wales is.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Financial penalties imposed by the courts will often consist of multiple elements including, amongst others, compensation, victim surcharge, prosecutor’s costs and a fine. The imposition is enforced as a whole, and any receipts received are applied to the offender’s account in accordance with a strict legal hierarchy. This ensures that the victims receive any monies they are due first, with the fine element being the last to be collected. This can result in the fine element, which is the punitive element of an imposition taking longer to be paid.
The Government takes the recovery and enforcement of all financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to ensuring impositions are paid. The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay and use a variety of sanctions to ensure the recovery of criminal fines and financial penalties. These sanctions can include deducting money from an individual offender’s earnings or benefits, if they are unemployed, or issuing warrants instructing approved enforcement agents to seize and sell goods belonging to the offender. If the offender does not pay as ordered and the money cannot be recovered by other means, then the court can take other actions which includes sending them to prison for non-payment of the financial penalty including a fine.
The value of outstanding fines is reported annually in the HMCTS Trust Statement, the information can be found on page 35 in table 4, using the link below, the outstanding value at 31 March 2025 was £1,139,192,851 We anticipate the data for the 31 March 2026 being published in July 2026.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service Trust Statement 2024-25
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people paid court fines in the (a) quarter ending in November 2025 and (b) other four most recent quarters for which data is available.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
There is no central data available on the number of people who have paid court fines. It would be necessary to interrogate all records manually. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.