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Written Question
Parc Prison: Labour Turnover
Friday 17th May 2024

Asked by: Beth Winter (Labour - Cynon Valley)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people of what grade (a) joined and (b) left the workforce at HMP Parc in each month of 2023.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

HMPPS takes the findings of every HMI Prisons inspection seriously and responds to each with a detailed action plan that seeks to address all concerns raised within the inspection report. For privately run prisons, HMPPS works closely with the Prison operator to ensure that the expected standards are met, through the local controller team and contractual escalation route, if required. HMPPS officials meet with HMIP regularly to discuss the general landscape across the prison estate and will continue to do so. HMP and YOI Parc assess all prisoners who transfer into the prison including reviewing all previous information held on the prisoners to inform intelligence.

HMPPS continues to work extensively with G4S and is closely overseeing the prison to improve safety and reduce harm. All establishments are required to have a safety strategy in place, which includes actions to address violence. HMPPS remains committed to providing a safe, decent and secure environment for all committed to our care.

As HMP and YOI Parc is a privately operated prison, HMPPS do not hold data relating to the G4S workforce, and recruitment of healthcare staff is the responsibility of the Local Health Board, therefore, HMPPS are not the data holder for healthcare staffing information.

The information requested on finds in prisons is published at HMPPS annual digest: HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2022 to March 2023 - GOV.UK, specifically in tables 8.2b, 8.3 and 8.4 of this link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64c143b41e10bf000e17cf9e/8.__Finds.ods.

Data on assaults are found in tables 8a-8f: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/662a24fb690acb1c0ba7e57c/Safety-in-custody-summary-q4-2023_final_table.xlsx.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Experience of claiming and receiving Carer’s Allowance
Document: Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry (PDF)

Found: Independent, South Cambridgeshire ) Jack Brereton MP (Conservative, Stoke-on-Trent South ) Neil Coyle MP (Labour


Public Bill Committees
Football Governance Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) As I outlined on Second Reading, Labour has supported reforming football through an independent regulator - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Indeed, the annual turnover in the Women’s Super League, featuring teams such as Chelsea and Manchester - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Shamash (Lab - Life peer) However, my main area of advice to the Labour Party is that of electoral law. - Speech Link
2: Lord Drayson (Lab - Life peer) Motorsport companies typically invest more than 25% of their turnover in R&D, because they understand - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) That is what fans deserve, and what Labour has called for in our last three election manifestos”. - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

May. 15 2024

Source Page: CHERI adoption and diffusion research
Document: (PDF)

Found: resources in India, the implementation of CHERI could be made cost-effective due to the relatively lower labour


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Section 21 evictions on Royal Assent of the Bill, although I suspect this too will have to wait for a Labour - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As a result, the private rented sector, unlike any other business, is taxed on turnover rather than profit - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Dealing with the normal turnover in staff housing needs has to be considered further.A promise that Section - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) We welcome the Labour Party’s announcement that it would introduce this on its first day in government.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015—• section 1 (slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour - Speech Link
2: None Labour has committed to taking back our streets and to being tough on hate crime. - Speech Link
3: None It is Labour policy to bring forward legislation to strengthen the law in this area. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) as far too slow.Again, Ofwat has taken until now to consider fines of up to 10% of water companies’ turnover - Speech Link
5: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Perhaps an incoming Labour Government will have to deal with those issues as well. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
This report sets out the Committee's views in relation to Additional Support for Learning and how the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 Act is working in practice 20 years on.
Additional Support for Learning inquiry

Report May. 15 2024

Committee: Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: Maguire Scottish National Party Stephanie Callaghan Scottish National Party Pam Duncan-Glancy Scottish Labour


Written Question
Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
Wednesday 15th May 2024

Asked by: Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the teacher recruitment and retention schemes that have received notice that funding will be (a) reduced and (b) ended since 1 January 2024.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

England currently has the highest number of teachers on record. At the last count there were over 468,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state-funded schools in England, which is an increase of 27,000 (6%) since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.

To make sure the department’s teacher recruitment and retention efforts are focussed on where they are needed most and providing best value for taxpayers’ money, the department has made some changes to funding allocations. Since January 2024, notice of changes to funding has been sent to the following teacher recruitment and retention partners:

  • All providers of Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) courses and initial teacher training (ITT) providers. The department are continuing to offer funded SKE in subjects with the greatest sufficiency challenges, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, computing, and languages and are continuing to offer a £175 per week tax-free bursary for eligible candidates to support them on their SKE training course.
  • Providers of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) informing them of changes to scholarship eligibility. The department is offering full scholarship funding in all NPQ subjects to teachers and leaders working in schools, and other settings, in the most challenging circumstances and serving more deprived communities. In addition, four NPQ subjects will continue to receive scholarship funding for all teachers and leaders employed at state-funded organisations. These include the NPQ in Headship, the early headship coaching offer, the NPQ in leading primary mathematics and the NPQ for special educational needs coordinators.
  • Providers and teacher training applicants informing them of changes to the eligibility criteria for the UK's international relocation payments. These payments will be available to international teachers who teach physics and languages in England.

Since January 2024, notice of non-renewal of funding has been sent to:

  • Now Teach informing them that the department will not be renewing their contract when it ends. The career changers programme has, and continues to, support career changers to enter teaching. The department remains committed to continuing to recruit and support career changers into ITT and are now carrying out a review to understand how to best meet the needs of a wider range of career changers.

The department has put in place a range of measures, including bursaries that are worth £28,000 tax-free and scholarships that are £30,000 tax-free, to encourage talented trainees to key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing. The ITT financial incentives package for the 2024/25 recruitment cycle is worth up to £196 million, which is a £15 million increase on the last cycle.


Parliamentary Research
Childcare workforce in England - CBP-9948
May. 14 2024

Found: The turnover rate is a measure of workforce ‘churn’.