Correspondence Apr. 23 2025
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: to be systemic issues, both in relation to the management of the contract by the Ministry of Justice
Feb. 27 2025
Source Page: SFO Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SercoFound: Towards the end of 2013 the Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) referre d the provision of electronic monitoring
Asked by: Josh Babarinde (Liberal Democrat - Eastbourne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of penalty charges imposed on Serco for underperformance in relation to its electronic tagging contract since November 2023.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Serco’s performance is not good enough, and last year’s backlog of outstanding visits has been substantially reduced. We will continue to hold Serco to account and will not hesitate to impose further contract penalties, where necessary, to drive performance improvement.
The Ministry of Justice believes that the information is commercially sensitive and releasing this information would prejudice, or would likely prejudice, Serco Group Limited’s commercial interests.
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Justice Committee. - Speech Link
2: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Justice Committee. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Tackling violence against women and girls is not just a Ministry of Justice problem to fix, but a problem - Speech Link
4: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) Ministry of Justice officials regularly meet representatives of the Department of Justice in Northern - Speech Link
5: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) heart of our justice system? - Speech Link
6: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) This is a travesty of justice. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government, since the general election, what (1) number, and (2) proportion, of prisoners released early have been electronically tagged; and what assessment has been made by the Ministry of Justice and its arm's-length bodies as to whether Serco has had sufficient capacity to tag all the prisoners who it was originally deemed should be tagged.
Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Data on SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication. The number of prison places projected to be saved by SDS40 releases are set out in the Impact Assessment (between 4,600 and 5,900 prison places for the male estate).
Serco had sufficient capacity in terms of both equipment levels and resources to tag all those being released from custody with an Electronic Monitoring requirement under this scheme. As with all releases from custody, prior notification was issued to Serco with licence notification paperwork to identify numbers and locations of those requiring tagging.
By 04 November, all required visits to attempt tag installation for SDS40 cases had been made.
Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if she will make a statement on the public - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) The Justice Secretary says these people will be “in prison outside of prison”—I am sure that hardened - Speech Link
3: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Justice Committee. - Speech Link
4: Neil Shastri-Hurst (Con - Solihull West and Shirley) Has the Ministry of Justice conducted an impact assessment for this policy? - Speech Link
5: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The Justice Secretary could have chosen to deport more of the thousands of offenders in our jails, maxed - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 12 2025
Inquiry: Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffingFound: to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the governance, leadership
Feb. 27 2025
Source Page: SFO Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SercoFound: reasonable investigation costs; and (ii) Serco Group plc's ("Serco Group's") a. provision of the undertaking
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Justice Committee. - Speech Link
2: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Justice Committee. - Speech Link
3: Anna Sabine (LD - Frome and East Somerset) What is the Ministry of Justice doing to tackle the backlog and support victims of VAWG through the criminal - Speech Link
4: Neil Shastri-Hurst (Con - Solihull West and Shirley) What consideration has the Lord Chancellor made of returning the prison to the Ministry of Justice? - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) What more can the Ministry of Justice do to tackle street harassment? - Speech Link
Feb. 27 2025
Source Page: SFO Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SercoFound: of allegatio ns that Serco Geografix Limited committed three offences of fraud contrary to section