Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process is in place to help ensure Government departments, the wider public sector and Members of Parliament are informed which organisations the Government has a policy of non-engagement with.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The Home Office does not comment on specific groups. In line with government’s published engagement principles, it is up to each department to carry out due diligence when choosing to engage with any organisation or individual and, if asked, we will advise and share information to help others inform their decisions.
As set out in Protection What Matters, the Home Office is updating the engagement principles and accompanying guidance. This includes ensuring that our due diligence and risk assessment capability is proportionate and fit for purpose when considering engagement with external individuals, organisations and groups. Decisions on engagement will continue to be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to provide a list of which organisations the Government currently has a no-contact policy with.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The Home Office does not comment on specific groups.
It is up to each department to carry out due diligence when choosing to engage with any organisation or individual and, if asked, we will advise and share information to help others inform their decisions.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the three most recent riots that took place in prisons or young offenders institutions.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
‘Riot’ is not used as an incident classification. An incident in which two or more prisoners act together in defiance of a lawful instruction or against the requirements of the regime of the establishment is categorised as “concerted indiscipline”.
The number of concerted indiscipline incidents in the 12 months to 31 March 2026 is published in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2025-26. Data about incidents in the 12 months to 31 March 2027 are due for publication next year. The requested data are therefore exempt from disclosure, because they form part of a data set intended for future publication.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what modelling her Department has made on the projected annual number of custodial sentences that will be served as a result of the new offences relating to pornography in the Crime and Policing Act 2026.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Department has assessed the potential custodial impact of the new pornography offences, using existing comparable offences to estimate likely prosecution volumes and sentencing outcomes. This impact has been published in the Impact Assessment
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 2 November 2026 to Question 39138 on Prisons: Islam, what was the cost of holding each of these services.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The cost of the religious service to mark the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Adha on 27 May at HMP Belmarsh, HMP Brixton and HMP Wandsworth forms part of a broader category of budgetary provision and cannot be disaggregated.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) what work has Kate Green done to date as Expert Adviser on Youth Justice Devolution, and (b) if he will provide a list of all organisations or individuals she has met with in her role.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Kate Green was appointed as Expert Adviser on Youth Justice Devolution to provide independent advice and challenge on the Government’s ambition and programme of work on how “rewiring the state” should apply to preventing youth offending in England.
To date, she has participated in a cross-government roundtable discussion involving officials and Ministers from the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Education, the Home Office, the Youth Justice Board and Youth Endowment Fund. She has also held meetings with the Minister for Youth Justice and officials from the Ministry of Justice, as well as officials from the Department for Education, to give her views on how to improve outcomes through devolution.
Kate Green will continue to engage with relevant stakeholders as part of her role.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of how much has been spent on branded items to support Dapo Akande's candidacy for the International Court of Justice since 4 July 2024, and what these branded items were.
Answered by Chris Elmore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The successful campaign in support of Professor Akande's candidacy for election to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) means that a UK judge will once again sit on the ICJ bench following a nine-year absence. This outcome underlines the UK's commitment to the international rule of law.
The total spent on branded items since 4 July 2024 was £12,723.71. The table below provides a breakdown of the spend on branded products, what those branded products were, and when the spend occurred.
Financial Year - spend (£) | ||||
Item | FY 2024/25 | FY 2025/26 | FY 2026/27 | All FYs |
Stationery | - | 1,324.61 | 1,812.85 | 3,137.46 |
Confectionery | - | 4,950.30 | 3,061.47 | 8,011.77 |
Accessories | 222.70 | 399.46 | 952.32 | 1,574.48 |
Totals | 222.70 | 6,674.37 | 5,826.64 | 12,723.71 |
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, further to the answer to Question 36708 of 20 October 2026, if he will provide the number of restricted patients detained in hospital in England and Wales, broken down by principal index offence, for any patients for whom these data are available.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Restricted Patients statistics are published annually each April. For patients detained in hospital as of 31 December 2025, whose principal index offence is Murder or Manslaughter numbers have been provided below.
Principal Index of Murder or Manslaughter, Restricted Patients detained in hospital as at 31 December 2025 | |
Principal Index Offence | Count |
Murder | 342 |
Manslaughter | 355 |
Providing a more granular breakdown of offences would incur disproportionate cost.
All offence categories are published within the Restricted Patients Statistics, with offence group breakdowns available in Table 3 of the publication: Restricted_Patients_Statistics_2025.ods
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on introducing legislation to end Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences; and by what date it plans to introduce this.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
On 1 September, the Secretary of State for Justice announced that the Government will bring an end to the IPP sentence for those who continue to serve it and will bring forward legislation to do this by the end of this Parliament.
We will bring forward legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours were taken by (a) correspondence (b) preparation and (c) hearing private-law Children Act cases (a) on average, and (b) in each of the past five years.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Data on the number of hours spent on correspondence, preparing or hearing private law Children Act cases is not available.