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 operating cost to HM Prison and Probation Service of running Approved Premises was in each of the last five financial years.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The table below shows the direct operating costs and total costs of running Approved Premises in England and Wales in each of the last five financial years.
Financial Year | Direct Costs (£m) | Total Costs (£m) |
2020/21 | 60.5 | 91.0 |
2021/22 | 75.8 | 108.8 |
2022/23 | 78.7 | 115.1 |
2023/24 | 85.1 | 127.7 |
2024/25 | 90.8 | 134.9 |
Total costs include direct operating costs together with estates costs and corporate support cost recharges. Figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million.
Data for 2025/26 are currently being compiled and quality assured and are therefore not yet available.
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 were resident in Approved Premises in England and Wales on the most recent date for which data is available, and in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested, which has not previously been published, will be included in the next edition of Offender Accommodation Outcome Statistics, which is due for publication on 30 July. It will be available at the following link: Offender Accommodation Outcome Statistics - GOV.UK
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 8 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, England and Wales, 2025 release, published on 30 April 2026, of the 297 restricted patients recalled to hospital following conditional discharge, how many had been conditionally discharged by (a) the Secretary of State and (b) a Tribunal.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Of the 297 recalls of restricted patients to hospital following conditional discharge published in Table 7 (not Table 8), (a) 66 were discharged by the Secretary of State and (b) 231 by the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health).
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 11 June 2026 to Question 7174, how many employees in HMPPS under the Occupational Psychologist profession are i) psychology administrators and ii) groupworkers.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
HM Prison & Probation Service currently employs 69 psychology administrators, including 11 sandwich student placements, and 384 groupworkers.
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.
For the purpose of the annual Civil Service employment statistics, both groups are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupational Psychologist’ profession.
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 11 June to Question 7174, how many employees in HMPPS under the Occupational Psychologist profession are i) trainee psychologists and ii) treatment managers.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
HM Prison & Probation Service currently employs 190 trainee forensic psychologists, and 130 treatment managers. For the purpose of the annual Civil Service employment statistics, both groups are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupational Psychologist’ profession.
Categorisation of the psychologist group is being reviewed, ahead of the next publication, which is due at the at the end of July.
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 - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
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 - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
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 - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
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 - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
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 - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
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.