Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of assaults on prison staff that included the use of (a) new psychoactive substances and (b) urine and excreta resulted in the hospitalisation of those staff in the 12 months to September in each of the last 10 years.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of assaults on (a) prison officers, (b) probation officers, (c) educational staff, (d) health-care staff and (e) other staff prison staff that included the use of (a) new psychoactive substances and (a) urine resulted in hospitalisation in the 12 months to September in each of the last 10 years.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people (a) charged with and (b) convicted of violent offences in each of the last 10 years had previously served a prison term.
Richard Burgon: I had sight of the Secretary of State’s statement only 20 minutes before he started speaking. That left me in the unacceptable position of having to prepare my statement about such a serious matter on the basis of press briefings. I begin by saying that my thoughts are with the people attacked yesterday, their families and the people of Streatham, who witnessed this absolutely horrific...
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each of the last 10 years.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people arrested for violent offences in each of the last 10 years have previously served a prison term.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assurances his Department has received from the Office for Legal Complaints in relation to the Legal Ombudsman’s (a) governance and management and (b) allegations of bullying and harassment.
Richard Burgon: Before asking my question I want to put on record the fact that my thoughts and, I am sure, those of the whole House are with the prison staff at HMP Whitemoor and their families after the horrific attack last week. Over a year ago, the UN special rapporteur said that Conservative cuts to legal aid had “effectively deprived” people of their human right to a remedy.” Is it not the case...
Richard Burgon: What people who are denied their basic rights need from the Government is action, not words. The UN special rapporteur said that the cuts had “overwhelmingly affected the poor” and disabled people. Labour is calling for the return of all legal aid-funded early advice, which would be a lifeline for the single mother standing up to a lousy landlord, the worker standing up to a bullying...
Richard Burgon: For far too many, prison is the worst place to tackle the issue of debt, substance abuse and mental health problems that led them to commit crimes in the first place. Figures that I uncovered show that nearly half of all women sent to prison were homeless—up 70% in just four years. Many thousands are stuck in a destructive cycle of short sentence after short sentence, which costs a fortune,...
Richard Burgon: Unlike the Conservative party, we care about what works. The Conservatives like to claim that they are not ideologues, but the Government’s own evidence shows that 30,000 fewer crimes would be committed each year if the Government properly invested in alternatives to prison. Does the Justice Secretary accept that his Government’s decision to chase headlines in the right-wing press, rather...
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost incurred by the Legal Aid Agency was for means-testing applications for grants of exceptional funding in relation to representation at inquests before Coroners' Courts in (a) each year since 2013 (b) 2019 to date.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration law legal aid providers there were in each year since 2010, by procurement area.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) hotel and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month since January 2018.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group has been called to each prison in each year since 2010.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the financial deductions levied against companies with which his Department has contracts valued at over £10 million over the life of the contract.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent with each company providing agency staff in each year since 2010.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's strategy entitled, Transforming Rehabilitation, what key success indicators his Department plans to include in its programmes to reduce reoffending.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to include targeted programmes for offenders that are dependent on (a) drugs, (b) alcohol and (c) gambling as a commissioning requirement under the proposed new probation system.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the criteria used by Her Majesty's Prisons and Probation Service expert panel to assess accredited rehabilitation programmes.