Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) According to the mortgage prisoners action group, there are around 195,000 mortgage prisoners; by narrowing - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 04 2025
Inquiry: Rehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffendingFound: by providing more minutes for prisoners to call loved ones.
Jul. 21 2008
Source Page: Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007: progress towards implementation of custody provisions. 20 p.Found: might pose to other prisoners, members of staff or visitors to the premises.
Asked by: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative - Chingford and Woodford Green)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) awareness and (b) understanding of (i) gambling-related suicide and (ii) other gambling-related harm at all levels of the justice system.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
In the Ministry of Justice, general training on wellbeing and resilience is available to all Civil Servants and we provide guidance to employees on suicide and self-harm. In previous Mental Health Awareness Weeks, specific events on ‘gambling addiction and mental health’ were available to all staff.
Within His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), National Debt Awareness week was observed in 2024, with several live events concerning gambling-related harms. Further materials such as the "Reach Out Save Lives" initiative, and bite-sized learning modules like the ‘HMPPS Problem Gambling: Prevalence and Practice’ course, are available to all staff. There is also the ‘Addiction to Gambling long-read’ which collates peer-reviewed literature on the matter and serves as operational guidance on working with those in prison and probation who experience gambling-related harms.
Support for prisoners who are experiencing gambling-related harm is provided by the NHS.
As an organisation, we take an evidence-based approach to ensure the Ministry of Justice is able to provide targeted support to respond to environmental factors. At this time, we are not planning any specific events training for the workforce related to gambling-related harm.
Mentions:
1: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) in-house, which is far more cost-effective, and make much more use of works departments to give prisoners - Speech Link
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) am glad that the noble Lord mentioned Q-Branch, which is an innovative model that has empowered prisoners - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) Does he agree that all prisoners should have an opportunity to work and earn while they are imprisoned - Speech Link
4: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) My Lords, Rule 31 of the Prison Rules 1999 provided that all convicted prisoners should be required to - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Southgate and Wood Green) There is a special need for prisoners to receive support. - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) of self-harm and suicide. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) As of 31 March 2024, there were 1,180 unreleased IPP prisoners and 1,616 recalled IPP prisoners in custody - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Woodley (Lab - Life peer) At least 90 prisoners have taken their own lives. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) Ninety IPP prisoners have committed suicide, as the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, mentioned. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) It is heartbreaking to hear the events of suicide and attempted suicide and to see how that pain and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) We know this, given the levels of mental distress, self-harm and suicide among IPP prisoners. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) UNGRIPP, the prisoners charity, estimates that, at this pace, IPP prisoners will still be in prison in - Speech Link
Found: September 2024 2008 and 2019 found that the risk of male prisoners dying by suicide was 3.9 times higher
Written Evidence Feb. 11 2025
Inquiry: Rehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffendingFound: young offenders, 24% of prisoners in Category A prisons and 23% of prisoners in Category C prisons
Written Evidence Feb. 13 2025
Inquiry: Tackling drugs in prisons: supply, demand and treatmentFound: Estimates suggest that 60–90% of prisoners use, or have used, NPS1.