Ayoub Khan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Wills: ReformMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53440More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the proposals in Law Commission’s report entitled Modernising Wills Law, published on 15 May 2025.
Answer: The Government has welcomed the Law Commission’s comprehensive report on the law of making a will and will be giving the report careful consideration.This is the first major review of the law on making wills since the Wills Act 1837, and the reforms propo...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Prison and Probation Service: TrainingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion staff in (a) prisons and (b) probation services have undertaken suicide prevention training.
Answer: I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 April 2025 to Question 44186.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordProbation: DeathMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) on probation and (b) engaging with probation services have died since 2010; and how many of these deaths cited suicide as the official cause of death.
Answer: The number of people who died while under probation supervision in the community is published annually in Table 1 of the ‘Deaths of offenders in the community’ statistical bulletin. The latest release, which includes data from April 2010 up to March 2024,...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: SuicideMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) prison and (b) probation staff have undertaken suicide prevention training.
Answer: All new prison officers receive training in suicide and self-harm prevention as part of their seven-week Foundation training course.For existing prison staff, there is a dedicated training module on suicide and self-harm. The training provides an understa...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: SuicideMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is providing suicide prevention training to (a) all and (b) newly recruited (i) prison and (ii) probation staff.
Answer: All new members of prison staff with prisoner contact receive training on suicide and self-harm prevention, and all staff who undertake key roles relating to risk assessment and case management also receive specific training relating to those roles. An e...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: SuicideMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department consulted on the contents the suicide prevention training provided to prison and probation staff.
Answer: All new members of prison staff with prisoner contact receive training on suicide and self-harm prevention, and all staff who undertake key roles relating to risk assessment and case management also receive specific training relating to those roles. An e-...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: TrainingMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38330More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the contents of the suicide prevention training provided to (a) prison and (b) probation staff.
Answer: It is not appropriate to make the training publicly available as the content includes lived experience examples for which confidentiality must be maintained, and there is a need for HMPPS to retain oversight of dissemination, delivery and appropriate use ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSelf-harmMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) people and (b) charities providing support to people that (i) have self-harmed and (ii) are considering self-harming are not criminalised; and what guidance she provide
Answer: Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023 gave partial effect to a Law Commission recommendation to create an offence of encouraging or assisting self-harm. The proposed new offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm intends to replace (in so f...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCounty Courts: Public AppointmentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of appointment-only counter service at County Courts on the accessibility of the court system.
Answer: Appointment-only counters have been in operation within HMCTS since 2012. Equality Impact Assessments were undertaken in line with ‘the framework for the Provision of Front Office Service in the County Courts (2008)’ which details the minimum standards fo...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCounty Courts: Telephone ServicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what performance monitoring is in place to monitor how many calls are unanswered in County Courts when individuals are trying to book a public counter appointment.
Answer: HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does have management information that includes data on telephony performance, such as volumes of answered and unanswered calls. This information does not specifically detail metrics related to unanswered calls for...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
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