Food Procurement
Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps she is taking to ensure that the same standards of animal welfare for whole eggs apply to imported liquefied eggs procured by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies for which she is responsible. [83790]
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Norman Baker: The requested information about the steps DFT is taking to ensure that the same standards of animal welfare for whole eggs apply to imported liquefied eggs is as follows:
The central Department does not use liquefied eggs.
DVLA do not use liquefied eggs.
The Driving Standards Agency's (DSA) supplier of shell eggs will be fully compliant with the requirements of the European Union directive 1999/74/EC on the welfare of laying hens by the end of 2011. These standards will be verified independently by representatives of the British Lion scheme, which promotes the traceability, safety and quality of British eggs. DSA's supplier of liquefied eggs uses British ‘Lion Quality’ Eggs to make their products.
The Highways Agency has taken no specific steps.
The requested information is not held for the remainder of DFT's arm’s length bodies as they do not have catering contracts in place.
Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of food sourced by (a) her Department and (b) public bodies for which she is responsible was procured from UK food producers in the latest period for which figures are available. [83791]
Norman Baker: The requested information for this year relating to on-site catering facilities that the Department has some direct responsibility for is as follows:
(b) The requested information is not held by Trinity House Lighthouse Service and Northern Lighthouse Board. Other Department for Transport non departmental public bodies either do not procure food or are minor occupiers and have no direct responsibility for on-site food procurement.
The Department cannot identify the origins of food purchased under other arrangements including as part of external room hire or conference packages.
Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps (a) her Department and (b) public bodies for which she is responsible are taking to ensure that they meet the Government's buying standards for food and catering. [83792]
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Norman Baker: The requested information about the steps DFT is taking to ensure it meets Government's buying standards for catering is as follows.
Across all food groups DFT's caterers achieve in excess of 70% compliance with Farm Assured, Red Tractor and The Marine Stewards Council guidelines, depending on the time of year. Fruit and vegetables are very difficult to comply with as many products are not available from UK producers. But where and when they are, they always buy UK if financially viable.
The Highways Agency is currently considering how most effectively to reflect the Government's Buying Standard for food and catering services via the current contractual arrangements in place for food-based facilities to be provided at some of its office locations, and future such arrangements.
The Driving Standards Agency's contractor is developing contractually-binding agreements with its key food suppliers to ensure that they will adhere to guidance set out in the Government Buying Standards (GBS) document.
They have engaged with the Agency's main food supplier to review the specific criteria of the revised GBS document and are finalising the contract amendment.
DVLA procure all their food through the PFI Estates Contract. However, under schedule 13 of this contract, the service provider is obliged to comply with any Government guidance on sustainable food and farming, in delivering the Catering Service to the Agency. To ensure compliance, the service provider is required to produce all necessary, statutory reports relevant to the provision of the catering. A particular return required in this respect is, the 'Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative', which is produced annually and while we review and, in some cases challenge the data; there has to be a balance in terms of keeping the costs down.
The requested information is not held for the remainder of DFT's arm’s length bodies as they do not have catering contracts in place.
Departmental Internet
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many unique hits her Department's website received in each of the last 12 months. [82956]
Norman Baker: Website traffic to www.dft.gov.uk over the last 12 months is as follows:
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Official Hospitality
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what receptions and events have been hosted by her Department since May 2010, including those sponsored by third parties. [84201]
Norman Baker: The requested information is as follows:
This excludes all events held as part of day-to-day business of the Department including working level meetings with stakeholders.
The above also excludes events hosted at the Department for Transport headquarters building and by the Highways Agency as the requested information is not centrally recorded and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Older Workers
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people her Department employs who are aged over (a) 55 and (b) 65. [83015]
Norman Baker: On 31 October 2011 the central Department and its seven executive agencies employed:
(a) 3,490 members of staff who were aged 55 to 64; and
(b) 145 members of staff aged 65 and over.
Of this total, the central Department employed 235 members of staff aged 55 to 64, and eight members of staff aged 65 and over.
Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department spent in (a) Birmingham, (b) Newcastle, (c) Wakefield, (d) Manchester, (e) Leeds, (f) Liverpool, (g) Coventry, (h) Bristol, (i) Sheffield, (j) Bradford, (k) Leicester and (l) Nottingham in the latest financial year for which figures are available. [85449]
Norman Baker: In 2010-11 the Department for Transport allocated funding to the named local authorities as per the following table. This includes un-ringfenced funding for integrated transport block and highways maintenance to local transport authorities for general capital investment in transport.
| Local authority | Funding (£000) |
| (1) Includes Cycling Town funding both in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. | |
Funding that was allocated to Integrated Transport Authorities rather than individual local authorities but which covers the areas named is given in a separate table. It is not possible for the Department to disaggregate this funding. This table also includes funding for rail support given to Passenger Transport Executives but does not include the £70 million the Department provides to Merseytravel for the operation of the devolved Merseyrail network.
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| Integrated Transport Authority | Funding (£000) |
While some of the variation in the tables above will be due to the differing geographical sizes and transport needs of areas, funding for local major schemes, including PFI projects, has a large effect.
Revenue expenditure on transport is generally supported through the Department for Communities and Local Government's formula grant.
The Department spends funds on the strategic road network through the Highways Agency (HA). The HA's reporting systems do not record actual expenditure for local authority areas; expenditure is recorded by project and activity.
Likewise, funding for other transport projects in England, such as rail projects, and spend by other executive agencies of the Department for Transport is not available on the basis of local authority boundaries.
Electric Vehicles
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent discussions she has had on the future of electric cars. [86243]
Norman Baker: Ministers and officials routinely discuss ultra low emission vehicles, including electric cars and meet key stakeholders including automotive manufacturers, charging infrastructure suppliers, power supply companies, other interested organisations and relevant Government Departments to inform these discussions.
First Capital Connect: Snow and Ice
Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what meetings Ministers in her Department have had with First Capital Connect on preparations for winter weather. [85796]
Norman Baker: Ministers have not held any recent meetings specifically with First Capital Connect on preparations for winter weather. However, I have discussed winter preparations with the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) representatives on a number of occasions since the summer.
Members: Correspondence
Andrea Leadsom: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she plans to respond to the letter of 6 October 2011 from the hon. Member for South Northamptonshire. [85807]
Mike Penning: I replied to my hon. Friend today.
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Motor Vehicles: Lights
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport in how many accidents have poorly adjusted headlamps of oncoming vehicles been a contributory factor in each of the last five years. [85675]
Mike Penning: The requested information is not collected by the Department. However, Table 1 shows the number of reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain which had (i) “defective lights or indicators” or (ii) “dazzling headlights” recorded as a contributory factor, over the period 2006 to 2010. It is not possible to identify whether poorly adjusted headlamps of oncoming vehicles contributed to these accidents.
Please note that contributory factors are reported only for injury road accidents where a police officer attended the scene and reported at least one contributory factor. These factors are largely subjective, reflecting the attending officer’s opinion at the time of reporting. It is recognised that subsequent inquires could lead to the reporting officer changing his/her opinion.
| Table 1: Reported personal injury road accidents (1) by selected contributory factors, Great Britain 2006 to 2010 | ||
| Number of accidents (1) with the following contributory factors attributed to the accident | ||
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| (1 )Includes only accidents where a police officer attended the scene and in which a contributory factor was reported | ||
Motor Vehicles: Registration
Mr Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost to the public purse was of issuing V5C vehicle registration certificates to all owners of cars; and if she will make a statement. [85523]
Mike Penning: The new style V5C vehicle registration certificate has been issued since August 2010 to keepers of newly registered vehicles and to those keepers making changes to a vehicle’s registration details. These documents would have been issued in the normal course of business and represent no extra cost.
Since October 2011, the document has also been issued for vehicles which do not already have one, when they are re-licensed or declared to be off-road. This accelerated production is expected to cover the entire national vehicle fleet within 12 months and is estimated to cost around £6 million to complete. The DVLA is taking action to recover these costs from a third party.
Simon Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on (a) reducing the risk of theft of and (b) its procedures for safe disposal of defective blank V5C vehicle registration certificates. [86465]
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Mike Penning: Since the theft of V5C vehicle registration certificates from a supplier or one of their subcontractors was identified in early 2007, discussions have taken place with the ministerial team on action to reduce the impact of the crime and changes have been made.
Processes around the destruction of defective blank V5C vehicle registration certificates have been tightened. Significant investment has been made at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to ensure all waste, spoiled or defective documents are destroyed securely on site. Also, tougher contract terms have been introduced for suppliers and more stringent audit controls surround the handling of V5C vehicle registration certificates have been put in to place.
Parking: Fees and Charges
Mrs Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what statutory provisions govern the time allowed to a car driver to decide whether a pay and display car parking fee is reasonable before becoming liable to pay; and if she will make a statement; [85090]
(2) what statutory provisions govern the amount of time a car may be in a pay and display car park before a car parking fee becomes payable; and if she will make a statement. [85091]
Norman Baker: There is no legislation governing these specific aspects of local authority car parks. It is entirely for the car park owner to set the terms and conditions for parking on their land.
Railways: Bicester
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the potential for greater use of Ministry of Defence rail infrastructure in and around Bicester consequent upon the re-opening of the east-west rail link from Oxford to Milton Keynes. [85764]
Mrs Villiers: Department for Transport officials have worked with Defence officials to ensure they are aware of the potential effect of East West Rail on the value and use of Defence land at Bicester. This includes possible re-use of the MoD railway and freight infrastructure for commercial purposes.
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what planning process she expects to be followed in respect of the route and construction of the re-opening of the east-west rail link between Oxford and Milton Keynes. [85765]
Mrs Villiers: The East West Rail consortium has proposed that full use is made of the permitted development rights of the railway, combining these with existing local authority planning processes to expedite construction and reopening.
Railways: Finance
John McDonnell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2011, Official Report, column 891W, on railways: private sector and with reference to page 104 of the Office of Rail Regulation's (ORR) National Rail Trends Yearbook:
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2010-11, whether she has requested from the ORR a list of the total investment in the railway industry received from each
(a)
train operating company,
(b)
rolling stock company,
(c)
freight company and
(d)
Network Rail in each year from 2006-07 to date; and if she will place this information in the Library. [R] [85685]
Mrs Villiers: The Department has not requested this information from ORR. With regard to investment in rolling stock, I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 1 December 2011, Official Report, columns 1020-21W. Network Rail publishes details of its investment annually in its Delivery Plans. These are available on Network Rail's website.
Roads: Accidents
Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries have occurred on roads in Pendle constituency in the last 12 months. [85753]
Mike Penning: In the 2010 calendar year (the latest period for which information is available), one person was killed and 34 were seriously injured in reported road accidents in the Pendle parliamentary constituency.
Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate she has made of the number of staged car accidents in the latest period for which figures are available; and what estimate has been made of the effects of such accidents on (a) car insurance premiums and (b) other costs to motorists. [85754]
Mike Penning: The Department has made no estimate of the number of staged car accidents, or the effect of such accidents on motor insurance premiums and other costs to motorists.
Detecting such incidents is largely for the insurance industry who set up the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) to detect and prevent organised fraud. The industry has also agreed to fund a specialist insurance fraud police unit due to go live by January 2012.
Roads: Manholes
Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps her Department is taking to improve the standard of grip for (a) two wheeled vehicles on manholes and (b) inspection covers on roads in England. [85672]
Norman Baker: The majority of manhole and inspection covers placed on the highway network are the responsibility of utility companies, with a small percentage under the ownership of local highway authorities, and so are not the responsibility of the Department for Transport.
However, the Department has been working with the Institute of Highways and Incorporated Engineers (IHIE) to develop Guidelines for Motorcycling. Section 6.3.16 of the guide encourages designers and maintenance engineers to ensure that covers should not be positioned in the carriageway so as to impose a hazard to motorcyclists. The guide may be viewed on the IHIE website at:
www.motorcyclingguidelines.org.uk
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In addition, the British and European Standard (prEN124) on “gully tops and manhole tops for vehicular and pedestrian areas” has been going through revision. One of the areas being considered as part of this work is the in-service skid slip resistance of the covers. Consideration is also being given to an enhanced skid slip resistance value to improve consistency between the road surface and service covers placed in the highway.
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
Mark Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment her Department has made of the cooling time for bituminous paving materials used on roads for the purposes of determining reasonable times for such works to be carried out. [86069]
Mike Penning: There are a number of controlling factors for determining reasonable times for works to be carried out and the associated cooling times for modern bituminous paving materials. The principal ones are the material type, the weather conditions (air temperature and wind speed) and the thickness that the material is to be laid at.
On behalf of my Department, the Highways Agency has carried out extensive research in this field over many years. The Highways Agency's Specification for Highways Works
http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/mchw/vol1/index.htm
incorporates the outcomes from the research, taking account of the modern bituminous materials used for pavement construction on the strategic road network. Research is ongoing into bituminous paving materials that can be laid at lower temperatures. As these materials are mixed and laid at lower temperatures, they can be compacted and opened to traffic more quickly than conventional bituminous materials. The research will determine whether these materials are suitable for the heavy traffic using the strategic road network.
Steria
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many contracts her Department has awarded to Steria since May 2010; and what the (a) purpose, (b) monetary value and (c) net worth was of each contract. [85478]
Norman Baker: The Department for Transport has not awarded any contracts to Steria since May 2010.
Tottenham Hale-Brimsdown Railway Line
Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she has made an assessment of the need for a third rail track between Tottenham Hale and Brimsdown on the line between London Liverpool Street Station and Cambridge. [85892]
Mrs Villiers:
The Government have not made an assessment of whether a third rail track is needed between Tottenham Hale and Brimsdown on the line between London Liverpool Street station and Cambridge. In its London and South East Route Utilisation Strategy, Network Rail assessed a number of infrastructure options on this line—including a third track between Lea Bridge and Brimsdown—and has now proposed an alternative
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intervention at Brimsdown in its initial industry plan. The Government will set out their requirements for the railway for the five year period from 2014 to 2019 in the High Level Output Specification, to be published in July 2012.
Justice
Free Schools: Planning Permission
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2011, Official Report, column 1042W, on free schools: planning permission, whether (1) his Department would return any capital receipts received from the sale of (a) Balham youth court, (b) Haringey magistrates court, (c) Mid-Sussex magistrates court and (d) Sutton Coldfield magistrates court; [85902]
(2) (a) Balham youth court, (b) Haringey magistrates court, (c) Mid-Sussex magistrates court and (d) Sutton Coldfield magistrates court are being offered for sale at market value. [85944]
Mr Djanogly: These courts will be sold at market value and the capital receipts retained by the Ministry of Justice to delivery justice services.
Alternatives to Prison: Females
Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on the provision of alternatives to custody for women offenders; and if he will make a statement. [85496]
Mr Blunt: The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has provided funding to help sustain a network of women-only community provision and has given a commitment to services with a proven track record of tackling offending behaviour among women from 2012-13. NOMS also makes available accommodation to defendants, who would otherwise be remanded in custody, through the Bail Accommodation and Support Service. Finally, we are working with the Department of Health to ensure that offenders with mental health problems receive treatment in the most appropriate and secure setting necessary.
Bail
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were bailed from the courts in each of the last five years. [86039]
Mr Blunt: The total number of defendants remanded on bail at all courts in England and Wales from 2006 to 2010 can be viewed in the following table.
| Defendants remanded on bail at magistrates courts (1) or the Crown court, 2006-10 (2) , England and Wales | |||
| Defendants (thousand) | |||
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Defendants bailed by magistrates courts (1,3) | Defendants bailed by the Crown court (1,3) | Defen dants bailed by either court (1,3) |
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| (1) Includes those also held in custody at some stage and those failing to appear to bail. (2 )Magistrates courts data for 2010 are estimated. (3) Excludes defendants reported as failing to appear to a summons although some of these cases, having been initiated by a summons may have resulted in the defendant being remanded on bail. Note: Some figures may not sum due to rounding. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice | |||
Birmingham: Grants
Mr Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what expenditure his Department plans to incur by way of (a) ring-fenced and (b) non ring-fenced grants in Birmingham in each of the next three years. [85539]
Mr Djanogly: The Department’s planned expenditure by way of grants to organisations in Birmingham for 2012-13 and 2013-14 is shown in the following table.
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2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Decisions have not yet been taken on grant funding allocations for 2014-15.
In addition to providing grants to organisations based in Birmingham, the Department also provides grants to some national organisations, which are not specific to Birmingham.
The figures above relate to the core Department. The Youth Justice Board (YJB), an Executive non-departmental public body of the Ministry of Justice, will be providing a grant to the Birmingham youth offending team in each of the next three years. The size of these grants has yet to be determined.
YJB grants are not officially termed as a ring-fenced, but in the context of their narrow statutory powers, such grants are only to be spent on matters relating to youth justice.
Mr Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assets his Department owns in Birmingham; and what is the estimated value of each such asset. [85540]
Mr Blunt: The Ministry of Justice owns 14 freehold properties in Birmingham. We do not hold up-to-date data on the market value of all properties. Gathering this information would require a survey of the properties.
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Food Labelling
Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether food and catering services in (a) his Department and (b) public bodies for which he is responsible plan to implement calorie labelling on menus and display boards; [85830]
(2) what steps the food and catering services in (a) his Department and (b) public bodies for which he is responsible are taking to ensure the country of origin of foods are labelled on its menus and display boards. [85831]
Mr Blunt: Currently, the means for each prison to calculate the calorific value of their individual menus is not available. To do this in all cases would require a full evaluation and is likely to require major capital investment at a time when public spending is under severe constraint. While MOJ are looking at aspects of menu provision including identifying calorific values for certain recipes, there are currently no plans to include such information on daily menus.
NOMS sets out the specification for catering in the prison service Instruction 44/2010 which contains a set of minimum standards for prisons to implement. Prison catering managers publish in advance pre-select menus covering between three and five weeks which are rotated over several months.
Food for prisons is purchased and delivered through mandated suppliers who have to comply with Food Labelling Regulations 1996. The voluntary inclusion of country of origin is not a requirement for all foods. Suppliers will procure food from several different countries based on price and availability. Prisons will often not know the country of origin of some products until the day of delivery prohibiting this detail from being included on previously published menus.
Departmental Responsibilities
Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department is taking to ensure social value is included when services are commissioned by (a) his Department and (b) its public bodies; and if he will make a statement. [85661]
Mr Kenneth Clarke: The Ministry of Justice set out its strategic approach to competition in the Offender Services Competition Strategy(1). This included defining a clear set of principles. These comprise:
competition activity should be focused on achieving mid to long-term savings, not finding the cheapest solution at the expense of quality;
competition should be used to deliver public sector reforms, ensuring providers are more effectively held to account for the outcomes they deliver;
providers should be involved early to identify where efficiencies could be realised in national or process-based functions through competition;
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) should be encouraged to participate to drive innovation; and
competition should be widely applied, with public sector providers allowed to bid where we are competing localised services and robustly held to account where successful.
(1) http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/corporate-reports/moj/oscs.htm
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Risk Assessment
Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what risk registers are held by the public bodies for which his Department is responsible; and if he will make a statement. [85708]
Mr Djanogly: Each of the Ministry’s public bodies is responsible for assessing which risks they are responsible for, and for putting in place the appropriate processes to monitor and manage those risks.
For many of the MOJ’s public bodies, the Department will monitor and manage the risks (for example, when a public body is located within a MOJ building the MOJ corporate centre will have responsibility for any accommodation risks).
Risk registers are held by the following MOJ public bodies:
Judicial Office of England and Wales
Civil Justice Council
Family Justice Council
Office for Judicial Complaints
HM Chief Inspectorate of Prisons
HM Chief Inspectorate of Probation
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman (JACO)
Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC)
Office of Public Guardian
Law Commission
Legal Services Board (LSB)
Office for Legal Complaints (OLC)
Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
Sentencing Council for England and Wales
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB)
Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)
Administrative Justice and Tribunal Council (AJTC)
Court Funds Office (CFO)
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA)
Official Solicitor and Public Trustee (OSPT)
Parole Board
HMCTS
NOMS
Legal Services Commission
Members: Correspondence
Malcolm Wicks: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Croydon North of 19 July 2011 concerning the circumstances leading to the death of the right hon. Member’s constituent, Umesh Chaudhary. [78706]
Mr Kenneth Clarke: I have now replied. I am very sorry for the delay.
Offender Assessment System
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to his planned review and redesign of the Asset structured assessment tool, whether he has any plans to similarly update the Offender Assessment System. [85432]
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Mr Blunt: The Offender Assessment System (OASys) is periodically updated to ensure that it provides a reliable and valid assessment tool based on the latest research evidence.
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether the Offender Assessment System includes a section to identify speech, language or communication needs in adult offenders. [85433]
Mr Blunt: The Offender Assessment System (OASys) does record whether the offender has required the use of an interpreter, what language the offender speaks and whether the offender has communication needs. The offender can also record any such needs within the OASys Self Assessment Questionnaire.
Police Cautions
Mr Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what provision he has made for public scrutiny of the practice of conditional cautioning. [85958]
Mr Blunt: We are considering how transparency of out of court disposals could be improved in developing a clearer framework for their use. We will work with partners across the criminal justice system to widen access to information and education for the public and practitioners to increase the awareness and understanding of conditional cautions. This will help the public to have greater confidence that conditional cautions and other informal and formal disposals are being utilised effectively and appropriately.
Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost per year is of accommodating a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection. [86035]
Mr Blunt: The average annual overall cost per prisoner in England and Wales for financial year 2010-11 is £37,000 (to nearest £1,000). The cost of a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) is not separately calculated.
Average prisoner costs are calculated for each prison establishment and grouped by prison function on the basis of the major use of each prison. The calculations do not analyse costs by type of sentence or prisoner, and as a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence may be held in prison establishments of different functions during the course of the sentence, an average cost for a prisoner serving an IPP is not available.
The calculation for cost per prisoner is based on net resource expenditure related to prisons included in the annual accounts of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) expressed in terms of the average prison population. This includes some estimation. Expenditure which is met by other Government Departments, such as expenditure on health and education, is not included. Expenditure recharged to the Youth Justice Board in respect of young people is included.
Indeterminate sentence prisoners may be held in any prison providing it is appropriate to the security category of the prisoner and is best placed to meet the next identified need in the sentence plan.
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Full details of average cost per prisoner by prison function for financial year 2010-11 can be accessed from the Ministry of Justice website under Management Information Addendum at the following link:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/corporate-reports/noms/annual-report-accounts-2010-11.htm
Prisons: Energy Efficiency
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisons have installed energy efficiency measures since May 2010. [86078]
Mr Blunt: Since May 2010 all public sector prisons have been part of a Carbon Trust carbon management programme (CMP). This has resulted in 51 sites installing energy saving technology directly, with a further five sites having replacement equipment under the major maintenance programme.
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will estimate the average annual heating and lighting costs in prisons if all prisons reached Energy Performance Certificate grade (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F and (g) G level. [86080]
Mr Blunt: The Ministry of Justice is unable to provide the average annual heating and lighting costs in prisons if all prisons reached Energy Performance Certificate grade (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F and (g) G level as the information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average Energy Performance Certificate rating is of the prison estate. [86082]
Mr Blunt: The average Energy Performance Certificate rating of the prison estate is based on Display Energy Certificates (DEC) assessments of energy use in occupied buildings.
The average DEC rating of the prison estate is 90.08 (sample size 131 sites).
Prosecutions: Fireworks
Mr Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) fixed penalties were issued and (b) prosecutions were brought relating to the misuse of fireworks in (i) St Helens South and Whiston constituency, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) England in each of the last five years. [84659]
Mr Blunt: Data on the number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued in the Merseyside police force area and England for offences related to the misuse of fireworks and defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for throwing fireworks, in each year between 2006 and 2010 (latest currently available), can be viewed in the table. These data are not available at constituency level.
Court proceedings data for 2011 are planned for publication in the spring of 2012.
| Defendants given penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) for offences related to fireworks and defendants (1) proceeded against at magistrates courts for throwing fireworks (2) , in the Merseyside police force area and England, in each year between 2006 - 10 | |||||
| Area/offence | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| (1 )The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Explosives Act 1875, section 80: Throwing, casting or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, public place etc. (3) Fireworks Regulations 2004 under section 11 of the Fireworks Act 2003. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services within the Ministry of Justice. | |||||
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Reoffenders
Nicky Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of suspended sentences which have been breached by offenders in (a) Leicestershire, (b) the East Midlands region and (c) England in the last 12 months. [85941]
Mr Blunt: The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Information on breaches of suspended sentence orders (SSOs) by individual offenders is recorded by probation trusts on their case management systems. It is used in
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the day-to-day management of offenders, including as a trigger to appropriate action in response to breach, for example through formal warnings or enforcement action, but data on the total number of breaches do not form part of trusts' routine reporting.
However, data are available on the reasons for termination of SSOs. These reasons include successful completion of the order as well as early termination for failure to comply with requirements or for conviction of a further offence.
The numbers of successful and unsuccessful completions of SSOs for 2010-11 for (a) Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust, (b) the East Midlands region and (c) for England are set out in the following table:
| Suspended sentence orders, 2010-11 | ||||
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Successful terminations (number) | Unsuccessful terminations (number) | Total successful and unsuccessful terminations (number) | Percentage of unsuccessful terminations |
The figures are a sub-set of the figures used to calculate the rate of successful completion of orders and licences published in the NOMS Annual Report 2010-11: Management Information Addendum:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/statistics-and-data/hmps/noms-annual-report-2010-11-addendum.pdf
It should be noted that the figures in the column for total successful and unsuccessful completions do not constitute all SSOs which terminated during the period. There are in addition a number which terminate for other reasons, such as a conditional discharge or the death of the offender, which are treated as ‘neutral’ for the purposes of the NOMS indicator and therefore excluded from the calculation.
The figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Not all breaches of SSOs will result in early termination. In line with National Standards for the Management of Offenders 2011 and the accompanying draft Practice Framework an offender who fails to comply with the terms of his or her supervision on a community order or suspended sentence order may be given one formal warning in any 12-month period on an order before breach action becomes required.
Third Sector
Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much direct funding his Department has allocated to each civil society organisation in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and if he will make a statement. [74818]
Mr Djanogly: The Ministry of Justice funds a large number of organisations that provide a wide range of services, such as the provision of support for victims of crime, mediation services, work to reduce crime and debt advice. To determine which of those are civil society organisations and how much is specifically paid or allocated to each of them over this five-year period could be done only at disproportionate cost.
Victims: Commissioner
Jessica Morden: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to appoint a new Victims Commissioner. [81555]
Mr Blunt: We are considering the future of the role and intend to make an announcement shortly. We regard it as important that the voice of victims is heard by policy makers across the criminal justice system.
Young Offenders Institutions
Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many hours on average young offenders aged (a) under 18-years-old and (b) between 18 and 20 years spent out of cells on (i) weekdays and (ii) weekends at each Young Offenders Institution in each month since April 2005. [85561]
Mr Blunt: Data for time out of cell on weekdays are collated by overall prison establishment and are not disaggregated for different prisoner age groups in individual establishments. Data are no longer collated for time out of cell on weekends but are available for the period April 2005 to March 2008.
Figures for time out of cell for each young offender institute (aged 18 to 20) and each young offender institute holding young persons (aged under 18) for each month since April 2005 are set out in a table for weekdays and weekends where available. The table has been deposited in the Library.
The figures used in the answer have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Young Offenders: Expenditure
Lisa Nandy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much the Youth Justice Board paid, including VAT per person for a place in (a) a secure children's
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home,
(b)
a secure training centre,
(c)
a publicly-run young offenders' institution and
(d)
a privately-run young offenders institution in the latest year for which figures are available. [86022]
Mr Blunt: The average prices, including VAT where charged, paid by the Youth Justice Board per child or young person placed in a secure children's home, secure training centre or a publicly run young offender institution as of 1 April 2011 are set out in the following table. For reasons of commercial sensitivity I am not able to provide information in respect of privately run young offender institutions. As not all types of youth secure accommodation attract a charge for VAT, the figures do not reflect the price of the services delivered on a like for like basis.
| Type of youth secure accommodation | Average cost per place per year as of 1 April 2011 (£) (1) |
| Notes: 1. Secure children's homes—these services do not attract VAT. 2. Secure training centres—these services do attract VAT. 3. Publicly-run young offender institutions do not attract VAT. 4. Privately-run young offender institutions do attract VAT. 5. These are costs to the YJB as at 1 April 2011. They are not intended to represent the total cost of providing custody and related services to young people. For example, they do not include YJB funding to NOMS Prisoner Escort Management (PEM) for the provision of Prison Escort and Custodial Services (PECS) for young people. 6. For court ordered secure remand places (in the STC and SCH sectors) the YJB recovers one third of the costs from the home local authorities. (1) Including VAT where charged. To the nearest £1,000. | |
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Youth Custody: Enfield
Mr Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders aged 18 to 20 from the London borough of Enfield have been held in (a) young offender institutions, (b) local prisons, (c) women's prisons and (d) other parts of the secure estate in each month since May 2009. [85259]
Mr Blunt: All young offenders serving sentences of DYOI are held in appropriately designated YOI accommodation within the prison estate. The majority of this accommodation is in dedicated YOIs, although some establishments in the estate have a dual designation (designated both as a prison and a YOI) and hold both adult prisoners and young offenders.
The following table shows the number of remand or convicted unsentenced and convicted and sentenced male and female prisoners aged 18 to 20-years-old with a recorded residential address or proxy in the London borough of Enfield who were held in predominant function male young offender institutions, predominant function male local prisons, all female prisons and the rest of the male estate on a set day in each month where data are available since May 2009.
| Number and location of male and female young adult offenders (aged 18 to 20) originating from London borough of Enfield | ||||||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | ||||||
| Location | May | September | November | January | March | May | Jul y | September |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Information on a prisoner's residence is provided by prisoners on reception into prison and recorded on a central IT system. Addresses can include a prisoner's home address, an address to which they intend to return on discharge or next of kin address and these figures are provided in the above table.
If no address is given, a prisoner's committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which a prisoner is resident. These figures are also included in the table above. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all prisoners, these figures are excluded from the table.
Education
Academies
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) academies and (b) free schools there are in each local authority in England. [84923]
Mr Gibb [holding answer 5 December 2011]: As of 1 December there are now 24 free schools and 1,463 open academies of which 319 are sponsored and 1,144 are converters. Details of how many are in each local authority as at 1 November are included in the following table.
Full details of schools that have formally applied for academy status, as well as a list of academies that have opened, can be found on the DFE academies website at:
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http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/academies/a0069811/schools-submitting-applications-and-academies-that-have-opened-in-201011
| Table 1: Number of open academies, by academy type and local authority (1) November 2011, England | ||||
| Local authority | Academy converters | Sponsored academies | Free schools | Total |
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| (1) School numbers include special academies. Source: Edubase, November 2011 | ||||