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Written Answers — Home Department: Domestic Violence (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. Information held centrally by the Ministry of Justice on the court proceedings database does not include the circumstances behind each case beyond the description provided in the statute. It is not possible to separately identify from this centrally held information prosecutions for domestic violence from other offences of...

Written Answers — Justice: Employment of Ex-offenders (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: We have already ensured that prison leavers aged over 18 who claim jobseeker's allowance on release or shortly afterwards are referred to the Work programme immediately. And we have introduced work in prisons on a much larger scale than before, providing offenders with real work experiences and helping to build their confidence about operating in the work place on release. Our Transforming...

Written Answers — Justice: Legal Aid (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: As set out in our consultation paper ‘Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a More Credible and Efficient System’, we are bringing forward a number of proposals to reduce the cost of legal aid. These include reductions to the fees earned by those providing legal aid and making it harder for unmeritorious cases to gain funding.

Written Answers — Justice: Offending by Probationers (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: We will put in place an unprecedented nationwide ‘through the prison gate’ resettlement service, meaning most offenders are given continuous support by one provider from custody into the community. We will support this by ensuring that most offenders are held in a prison designated to their area for at least three months before release. All offenders will then receive...

Written Answers — Justice: Corporate Manslaughter (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: There were no convictions for corporate manslaughter between 2007 and 2010 and one conviction in 2011. Court proceedings data for 2012 are planned for publication later in May 2013.

Written Answers — Justice: Crime: Victims (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) reports are based on a survey of prisoners sentenced to between one month and four years in England and Wales in 2005 and 2006. The last interviews were conducted in 2010. Questions on the needs of victims were not asked, however, prisoners were asked whether they believed there was a victim of their offence. There are no plans to conduct another...

Written Answers — Justice: Offenders: Rehabilitation (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: There is no statutory requirement for probation officers to offer training to offenders as door-to-door salesmen, nor does the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) engage with or support any programme of this nature. Although NOMS has received complaints from members of the public approached by people selling door-to-door, who claim to be ex-offenders engaged in a rehabilitation...

Written Answers — Justice: Parole (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The number of cases that the Parole dealt with in the following financial years was:   Number 2008-09 28,596 2009-10 24,204 2010-11 25,566 2011-12 26,414 The figure in respect of 2012-13 is not yet available and will be published in the Board's 2012-13 Annual Report. The Parole Board has not recorded the level of their caseload on 1 April of each of the years stated...

Written Answers — Justice: Parole Board (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The funding provided by the Ministry of Justice to the Parole Board in each of the last five financial years through the supplementary estimate was:   £ million 2008-09 8.36 2009-10 9.85 2010-11 10.36 2011-12 10.17 2012-13 11.59

Written Answers — Justice: Parole Board (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The Parole Board's resource budget for 2013-14 is £10.85 million. Their budget allocations for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16 have yet to be finalised.

Written Answers — Justice: Parole Board (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The total number of individual permanent staff employed by the Parole Board for the following financial years was: 2008-09: 104 2009-10: 115. The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the Parole Board has not been recorded for the above two financial years. The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the Parole Board for the following three financial years was: 2010-11:...

Written Answers — Justice: Prison Sentences (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: All sentences are served in full. For the majority of offenders, this means serving part of their sentence in custody and part in the community. All release provisions are now contained in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 as amended. Prisoners must be released in accordance with the legislation laid down by Parliament. While there have been various changes to this over the years, Parliament has...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners' Transfers (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The Prisoner Escort Custody Service (PECS), which is part of the National Offender Management Service, is responsible for the movement of prisoners between prisons, police stations and courts and their care and security while in court custody. PECS manages the secure escort contracts covering all those sent to custody in the prison estate, apart from Category A prisoners. Under the current...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Suicide (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: All deaths in prison custody are subject to a coroner's inquest and it is for the coroner to determine the cause of death. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) classification system does not include suicide as this requires knowledge of intent, which is not always known. Within the NOMS classification system, suicides are included in self-inflicted deaths, which also includes...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Suicide (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: All deaths in prison custody are subject to a coroner's inquest and it is for the coroner to determine the cause of death. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) classification system does not include suicide as this requires knowledge of intent, which is not always known. Within the NOMS classification system, suicides are included in self-inflicted deaths, which also includes...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Electronic Equipment (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: NOMS does not hold information on the proportion of prisoners who have access to television, games consoles or newspaper subscriptions. To obtain the information would involve contacting each prison and this would incur disproportionate cost. On 30 April 2013, we announced changes to the incentives and earned privileges (IEP) scheme, under which prisoners earn access to privileges, including...

Written Answers — Justice: Probation (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The Ministry of Justice's published “Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform” on 9 May that sets out the reforms for how offenders will be rehabilitated in the community. We are committed to opening up rehabilitative services to a range of new providers, who will be paid by results to help offenders turn their lives around. We anticipate that introducing competition to...

Written Answers — Justice: Probation: Wiltshire (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The Ministry of Justice's published “Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform”; on 9 May that sets out the reforms for how offenders will be rehabilitated in the community. We are committed to opening up rehabilitative services to a range of new providers, who will be paid by results to help offenders turn their lives around. As a part of this we expect to see more use...

Written Answers — Justice: Remand in Custody (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The tables show the number of prisoners received into prison on remand in England and Wales in each month from January 2008 to December 2012. The figures provided are a further breakdown of those published in Table 1.2 of the 'Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletin' available on the: www.gov.uk website. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any...

Written Answers — Justice: Reoffenders (21 May 2013)

Jeremy Wright: The figures cannot be provided. The information held centrally on prison discharges (which is used to identify those released on licence) does not currently include an assessment of risk.