Justice written question – answered at on 19 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) which young offenders institutes (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have visited in the last 18 months; and on what dates such visits took place;
(2) which secure children's centres (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have visited in the last 18 months; and on what dates such visits took place;
(3) what meetings Ministers in his Department have had with organisations working with offenders who misuse alcohol and/or drugs in the last 18 months;
(4) what meetings (a) he and (b) his Department has had with the Child Brain Injury Trust in the last 18 months; what the dates were of those meetings; and which Ministers were present;
(5) with which organisations working with young offenders (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had meetings in the last 18 months;
(6) which prisons (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have visited in the last 18 months; and on which dates.
Data on visits are set out in the following tables.
My officials have provided a comprehensive list of organisations that Ministers have met, that work with young offenders or offenders who misuse alcohol and drugs, including probation trusts. Every effort has been made to ensure all relevant organisations have been included. The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly information which includes meetings Ministers have held with external organisations. This information can be found on the Ministry of Justice website on the following link:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/corporate-reports/moj/index.htm
Young offenders institutes | |
Date of visit | |
Crispin Blunt | |
Feltham | 7 June 2010 |
Down View | 16 July 2010 |
Glen Parva | 24 September 2010 |
Moorland | 11 November 2010 |
Ashfield | 3 August 2010 |
Peterborough | 10 September 2010 |
Isis | 27 January 2011 |
Portland | 27 July 2011 |
Lancaster Farms | 4 August 2011 |
Nick Herbert | |
Feltham | 18 November 2010 |
Secure children's centres (1) | |
Date of visit | |
Kenneth Clarke | |
Clayfields House secure children's home | 14 October 2011 |
Crispin Blunt | |
Medway secure training centre | 25 June 2010 |
Vinney Green secure children's home | 3 August 2010 |
Lord McNally | |
Medway secure training centre | 30 September 2010 |
(1) Officials have provided information on visits to secure children's homes and secure training centres. |
Meetings with organisations working with offenders who misuse alcohol and/or drugs (1) | |
Date | |
Kenneth Clarke | |
St Giles Trust | — |
Prison Reform Trust | — |
Nottinghamshire Probation Trust visit | 7 March 2011 |
Changes Project at the Nottingham Women's Centre | 6 May 2011 |
Women's Justice Taskforce and Prison Reform Trust | 5 December 2011 |
Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust visit | 5 December 2011 |
Crispin Blunt | |
Surrey Youth Offending Team | — |
Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Offending Team | — |
Northern Ireland Restorative Justice | — |
Lambeth Youth Offending Team | — |
Youth Justice Service Managers Conference | — |
Slough College | — |
Howard League for Penal Reform | — |
St Giles Trust | — |
UNLOCK | — |
NACRO | — |
Green Pastures | — |
Centre for Social Justice | — |
Young Offender Academy and Natural Justice | — |
NSPCC | — |
Exeter Drugs project | — |
Catch 22 | — |
Tomorrow's Training Co. | — |
Youth Support Service | — |
Sova | — |
Novas Scarman | — |
Shelter | — |
Safe Ground | — |
Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health | — |
North East London NHS Trust | — |
Children's Society | — |
Prince's Trust | — |
National Children's Bureau | — |
User Voice | — |
Start Here | — |
Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoner's Trust | — |
Prison Reform Trust | — |
Corston Independent Funders Coalition | — |
Homeless Link | — |
Joseph Rowntree Foundation | — |
ACEVO | — |
PAPYRUS | — |
Probation visits: | |
Thames Valley Probation Trust | 29 July 2011 |
Essex Probation Trust | 30 July 2011 |
Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust | 4 August 2011 |
Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust | 23 September 2011 |
Crewe Probation | 14 October 2011 |
Yorkshire and Humberside Probation Trust | 11 November 2011 |
London Probation Trust | 25 November 2011 |
Avon and Somerset Probation Trust | 11 February 2011 |
West Mercia Probation Trust | 10 March 2011 |
West Midlands Probation Trust | 11 March 2011 |
Devon and Cornwall Probation Trust | 24 March 2011 |
Northamptonshire Probation Trust | 6 May 2011 |
West Yorkshire Probation Trust | 12 May 2011 |
Dorset Probation Trust | 28 July 2011 |
Cumbria Probation Trust | 2 August 2011 |
Lancashire Probation Trust | 3 August 2011 |
Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust | 10 November 2011 |
Greater Manchester Probation Trust | 25 November 2011 |
Merseyside Probation Trust | 29 November 2011 |
Northumbria Probation Trust | 14 December 2011 |
Nick Herbert | |
Prison Reform Trust | — |
Lord McNally | |
Turning Point—Douglas House Project | — |
London Probation Trust | — |
Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust | — |
Hertfordshire Probation Trust | — |
(1) Officials have included visits and probation trusts |
The Child Brain Injury Trust
Ministers in my Department have not met with the Child Brain Injury Trust in the last 18 months. The Ministry of Justice does not centrally record meetings attended by all officials in the Department. To collate the information requested would exceed the cost limit for answering parliamentary questions.
Meetings with organisations working with young offenders (1) | |
Date | |
Kenneth Clarke | |
St Giles Trust | — |
Nottinghamshire Probation Trust visit | 7 March 2011 |
Crispin Blunt | |
Surrey Youth Offending Team | — |
Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Offending Team | — |
Northern Ireland Restorative Justice | — |
Catch 22 | — |
Lambeth Youth Offending Team | — |
Youth Justice Service Managers Conference Slough College | — |
Howard League for Penal Reform | — |
St Giles Trust | — |
UNLOCK | — |
NACRO | — |
Green Pastures | — |
Centre for Social Justice | — |
Young Offender Academy | — |
Natural Justice | — |
NSPCC | — |
Exeter Drugs project | — |
Catch 22 | — |
Tomorrow's Training Co, | — |
Youth Support Service | — |
Sova | — |
Novas Scarman | — |
Shelter | — |
Safe Ground | — |
Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health | — |
North East London NHS Trust | — |
Children's Society | — |
Prince's Trust | — |
National Children's Bureau | — |
User Voice | — |
Start Here | — |
Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoner's Trust | — |
Prison Reform Trust | — |
Corston Independent Funders Coalition | — |
Homeless Link | — |
Joseph Rowntree Foundation | — |
ACEVO | — |
PAPYRUS | — |
Probation visits: | |
Thames Valley Probation Trust | 29 July 2011 |
Essex Probation Trust | 30 July 2011 |
Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust | 4 August 2011 |
Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust | 23 September 2011 |
Crewe Probation | 14 October 2011 |
Yorkshire and Humberside Probation Trust | 11 November 2011 |
London Probation Trust | 25 November 2011 |
Avon and Somerset Probation Trust | 11 February 2011 |
West Mercia Probation Trust | 10 March 2011 |
West Midlands Probation Trust | 11 March 2011 |
Devon and Cornwall Probation Trust | 24 March 2011 |
Northamptonshire Probation Trust | 6 May 2011 |
West Yorkshire Probation | 12 May 2011 |
Dorset Probation Trust | 28 July 2011 |
Cumbria Probation Trust | 2 August 2011 |
Lancashire Probation Trust | 3 August 2011 |
Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust | 10 November 2011 |
Greater Manchester Probation Trust | 25 November 2011 |
Merseyside Probation Trust | 29 November 2011 |
Northumbria Probation Trust | 14 November 2011 |
Lord McNally | |
Foyer Federation | — |
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists | — |
UNLOCK | — |
National Grid Young Offenders' Programme | — |
(1) Officials have included visits and probation trusts. |
Prison visits | |
Date | |
Kenneth Clarke | |
HMP Leeds | 29 June 2010 |
HMP Peterborough | 9 September 2010 |
HMP High Down | 1 November 2010 |
HMP Wormwood Scrubs | 1 December 2010 |
HMP Wandsworth | 8 December 2010 |
HMP Doncaster | 14 January 2011 |
HMP Preston | 10 February 2011 |
HMP Cardiff | 12 July 2011 |
Crispin Blunt | |
HMP Wormwood Scrubs | 20 May 2010 |
HMP Frankland | 27 May 10 |
HMP Coldingley | 4 June 2010 |
HMP Grendon | 2 July 2010 |
HMP Spring Hill | 2 July 2010 |
HMP Downview | 16 July 10 |
HMP Ford | 4 August 2010 |
HMP Pentonville | 5 August 2010 |
HMP Lowdham Grange | 23 September 2010 |
HMP Gartree | 24 September 2010 |
HMP Risley | 14 October 2010 |
HMP Thorn Cross | 14 October 2010 |
HMP Parc | 4 November 2010 |
HMP Usk | 4 November 2010 |
HMP Prescoed | 5 November 2010 |
HMP Swansea | 5 November 2010 |
HMP Cardiff | 5 November 2010 |
HMP Ford | 2 January 2011 |
HMP Belmarsh | 27 January 2011 |
HMP Belmarsh West | 27 January 2011 |
HMP Holloway | 28 January 2011 |
HMP Nottingham | 1 February 2011 |
HMP Bristol | 11 February 2011 |
HMP Brixton | 14 March 2011 |
HMP Exeter | 24 March 2011 |
HMP Dartmoor | 25 March 2011 |
HMP Channings Wood | 25 March 2011 |
HMP Wellingborough | 6 May 2011 |
HMP Newhall | 11 May 2011 |
HMP Wakefield | 12 May 2011 |
HMP Durham | 19 May 2011 |
HMP Woodhill | 9 June 2011 |
HMP Dorchester | 27 July 2011 |
HMP The Verne | 27 July 2011 |
HMP Kirkham | 3 September 2011 |
HMP Preston | 3 September 2011 |
HMP Elmley | 17 November 2011 |
HMP Swaleside | 17 November 2011 |
HMP Stanford Hill | 17 November 2011 |
HMP Wayland | 11 November 2011 |
HMP Liverpool | 29 November 2011 |
HMP Altcourse | 29 November 2011 |
HMP Gloucester | 1 December 2011 |
HMP Leyhill | 2 December 2011 |
HMP Eastwood Park | 2 December 2011 |
HMP Hull | 16 December 2011 |
Nick Herbert | |
HMP Hull | 29 September 2010 |
HMP Lewes | 24 June 2011 |
Lord McNally | |
HMP Highdown | 3 June 2011 |
HMP Holloway | 21 July 2011 |
HMP Norwich | 26 July 2011 |
HMP Swaleside | 31 August 2011 |
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