Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of days taken was to gain security clearance for health and social care professionals seeking to commence employment in prisons in each of the last five financial years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The average number of days taken to complete security clearance for health and social care professionals seeking employment within HMPPS from 2016 has been provided in the table below.
We are unable to provide this information for cases prior to 2016, as a different operating system was used and to which the now service provider to HMPPS does not have access.
Financial Year | Average days |
2016 - 2017 | 56 |
2017 - 2018 | 71 |
April 2018 to present | 37 |
Please note - that the information in the table for health and social care professionals has been collated based on the job title of the campaign and may be subject to slight variations.
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to collect centrally data on waiting times for coronial post mortems for (a) adults, (b) children and (c) neonatal deaths.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The Ministry of Justice collects data on the number of post mortem examinations commissioned by coroners and this is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2016
We have no plans to collect data on waiting times for coroner post mortems.
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications were made under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 for (a) sexual assault and (b) rape in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The information requested is not held centrally.
We asked the CPS to analyse a sample of rape cases finalised in 2016 to assess the frequency and outcome of applications to introduce evidence of a complainant’s sexual history under s 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
A section 41 application was made by the defence in 13% of the 309 sample cases looked at. In 8% of the 309 sample cases, an application to permit such evidence was granted by the court.
These are not official published statistics. For further details of this study, see our report published in December: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for applications under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, in cases of rape.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The same criteria apply to proceedings in relation to all sexual offences. See page 5 of the report ‘Limiting the use of complainants’ sexual history in sexual offences cases’ available here:
Asked by: Sarah Wollaston (Liberal Democrat - Totnes)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for applications under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, in cases of sexual assault.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The same criteria apply to proceedings in relation to all sexual offences. See page 5 of the report ‘Limiting the use of complainants’ sexual history in sexual offences cases’ available here: