Prison Sentences
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 5 September 2013, Official Report, column 519W, on prison sentences, what offences were committed in each such case. [175189]
Jeremy Wright: The information requested is provided in table A as follows.
Overall the proportion of pre-sentence reports proposing immediate custodial sentences at the Crown court has increased, which is in line with an increase in the proportion of offenders given immediate custody.
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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.
| Table A: PSR reports recommending an immediate custodial sentence in the Crown court, by offence group and sex, 2010 to 20121 England and Wales | |||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
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| 1 From April 2012, there was a change to the court report data collection process. Data Sources and Quality: 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. | |||
Prisoners
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners in each prison in England and Wales are originally from London; [176209]
(2) what the most recent figures are for the number of prisoners from London in each prison in England and Wales. [177030]
Jeremy Wright: The table shows the number of male and female prisoners held in a prison, young offender institution and female prison with a recorded residential address in a London local authority area on 30 September 2013.
If no address is given, an offender's committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident. These figures are included in the answer. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders, these figures are excluded from the answer. Information on offenders' residences is provided by them on reception in prison and recorded on a central IT system. Addresses can include a home address, an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or next of kin address and these figures are provided in the table.
| Prison in England and Wales where prisoners originally from London are held on 30 September 2013 | |
| Prison | Total |
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One of the key aspects of this Government's Transforming Rehabilitation proposals, as announced by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), in July, is a nationwide "through the prison gate" resettlement service to progress adult male offenders seamlessly from custody into the community.
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From 2015, the overwhelming majority of prisoners will be released from one of their home area's designated resettlement prisons with a package of support to reduce the risk of reoffending.
Prisoners: Children
Mr Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners have given birth during each of the last five years; [177908]
(2) how many children under 18 months old were living with their mothers in prison during each of the last five years; [177909]
(3) how many children of women prisoners were removed from their care on reaching the age of 18 months during each of the last five years. [177910]
Jeremy Wright: Information on the number of women who have given birth in prison is not collected centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
| Table 1: The number of babies living in Mother and Baby units at the end of September 2010, 2011 and 2012 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. This information is collected as a snapshot the end of each month. It is not possible to identify individuals and as a result it is possible that babies could appear in more than one snapshot. 2. The age of the baby is not collected and therefore could include babies older than 18 months. | |
This central data collection was started in April 2010 and therefore data for the five year period requested is not available.
| Table 2: The total number of discharges of babies from Mother and Baby units on separation for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. This information is not at the individual level and therefore individual cases could appear more than once. 2. The age of the baby is not collected and therefore the age of the baby at time of separation can not be derived. | |
These figures do not include cases where mothers and babies are separated when the mother is received into prison. Only separations that occur while the mother and baby are in the Mother and Baby Unit are counted.
This central data collection was started in April 2010 and therefore data for the full five year period requested is not available.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) provides places in Mother and Baby Units when it is considered in the child's best interests. There are currently six Mother and Baby Units in women's prisons in England (there are no women's prisons located in Wales). These are located at Styal, New Hall, Eastwood Park, Askham Grange, Peterborough and Bronzefield.
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Prison Service Instruction 54/2011, which deals with the Management of Mother and Baby Units, provides instruction and guidance to managers and staff who work in them and is also available to prisoners.
Prisoners: Risk Assessment
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoner risk assessments were carried out in each month in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013 to date. [177197]
Jeremy Wright: This information is not held centrally. In order to provide the information, each prison and probation trust would need to manually check several local systems for each reception and discharge in the requested time period. This exercise could be completed only at disproportionate cost.
All prisoners arriving into an establishment, whether new to custody or new to an establishment, are provided with an appropriate level of care and support. Immediate needs are identified, addressed (where possible) and recorded to enable continuity of monitoring, signposting and support. Furthermore, prisoners are treated decently, and safer custody issues, including cell sharing risks, are given priority. Therefore all prisons are required to conduct initial assessments of prisoners on their entry to the prison, as set out in Prison Service Instruction 74/2011; Early Days in Custody—Reception In, First Night in Custody, and Induction to Custody. These would include assessments of the prisoner's physical and mental health, the risk of harm (including self-harm) to the prisoner and others, any immediate personal needs and also security issues in relation to the possible risk posed to prison security or the general public.
Prisoners leaving custody, whether transferring to another prison, being moved into the custody of another agency, or being released, their safety and well being requires that any existing support and care plans are maintained in the new environment. Relevant agencies are informed about a prisoner's physical and mental health needs and risks of harm. Prison Service Instruction 72/2011; Discharge sets out the procedures to follow at point of discharge.
Prisons
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much the Ministry of Justice spent (a) in total, (b) as a share of the total prison budget and (c) as a share of the Department's total budget operating (i) privately-run and (ii) publicly-run prisons in (A) 2010, (B) 2011 and (C) 2012; and how much this is expected to be in (1) 2013, (2) 2014 and (3) 2015. [179333]
Jeremy Wright: The following table shows the share of the total net prison resource expenditure broken down by public sector and publicly-run prisons against the Ministry of Justice's departmental total net resource expenditure for financial years 2010-11 to 2012-13.
Please note that the allocated budgets for 2013-14 may be subject to change during the financial year. Due to changes in priorities, scope and accounting treatment the figures may not be directly comparable.
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Financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16
The budgets for 2014-15 and 2015-16 will be set as part of the Departments regular annual budget allocation
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process. Allocations will be made on the basis of need and according to departmental priorities.
| Overall net resource | ||||
| Expenditure on public and private prisons | Public sector prisons | Contracted prisons | Total prisons | MOJ total and prison share (net) |
| Notes: 1. The out-turn figures on prisons are based on published data in the Management Information Addendum to the NOMS accounts. The MOJ expenditure is from the published MOJ annual report and accounts. 2. The above figures are produced on as comparable a basis as possible, so they include all direct expenditure at prisons, plus expenditure met at a regional and national level. 3. The prisons figures are based on the NOMS' Net Operating Costs as per the CSoCNE in the annual accounts. Expenditure not related to prisons (such as probation) and extraordinary expenditure (eg impairments) are not included. MOJ expenditure is net operating costs from the departmental CSoCNE. 4. The private prisons figure for 2012-13 includes Oakwood, Thameside and the full-year effect of Birmingham. It also includes some start-up costs of the new prisons. 5. The private prisons figure for 2011-12 includes half-year operating costs of Birmingham, which went into private management (operated by G4S) in October 2011. 6. The reduction in public prisons' share of expenditure reflects this increase at private prisons and is also a result of the programme of prison closures and efficiency savings that has taken place. There was an average increase in prisoner places in privately-run prisons by 1,382 in 2011-12 from 2010-11; and a further increase of 1,711 in 2012-13 from 2011-12. 7. Care must be taken in considering the comparison between private and public sector costs for the following reasons: (a) The public and private groups of prisons are not homogenous groups in terms of prison category, size, or age and these factors may have a greater impact on average costs than whether the prisons are public or private sector. (b) The private sector contracts may have different responsibilities for provision of health or education services than public sector prisons. This will affect their relative costs. (c) The different financing methods of PFI prisons mean that in an individual year the resource costs of private and public sector prisons are not directly comparable. (d) The costs are based on resource expenditure recorded in NOMS annual accounts. The PFI prisons are on balance sheet, which means that the element of the private contractors’ charges related to the capital cost is not included in the unit costs, while depreciation of buildings is included. Following government accounting rules, the charge against the resource budget is not calculated in the same way. (e) The PFI prisons costs include a charge for interest on capital costs. There is no equivalent charge in the public sector costs. | ||||
Prisons: Private Sector
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will list all occasions on which performance points were accrued by private prisons since 2010; for what reason the points were accrued in each case; and what financial penalties were attached in each case. [165769]
Jeremy Wright: Performance points accrued, reasons for performance points accrual and financial remedies applied for quarterly measured and annually measured performance points at private prisons for contract periods 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 are detailed in tables 1 to 3. Please note that quarterly and annual performance measures are calculated on differing criteria and are not comparable.
Note: performance points and financial remedies criteria will vary from contract to contract, particularly between PFI and Manage and Maintain Contracts, as well as newer, amended and older PFI contracts. For example, actual performance measures, method of calculation, performance point weightings, credit point weightings, performance point targets etc. may vary from contract to contract.
The data presented in tables 1 to 3 are based on total number of performance points accrued for the relevant periods. This does not take into account credit points awarded to contractors and offset against total performance points for the period. Financial remedies are only applicable when performance point baseline targets are exceeded for the period.
Due to a changeover in systems in 2012-13, some financial data reported for previous periods are incomplete.
Performance points are essentially about operational efficiency, and do not represent a risk to public safety.
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| Table 1: 2010-11 | |||||||||||
| Q12 | Q22 | Q32 | Q42 | Annual2 | |||||||
| Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | ||
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| Table 2: 2011-12 | |||||||||||
| Q12 | Q22 | Q32 | Q42 | Annual2 | |||||||
| Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | Points1 | Value (£) | ||
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