Clive Lewis MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

Prisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies on trans people in prison of the Supreme Court's decision on 16 April 2025.
Answer: The Supreme Court ruling brings clarity and confidence for women and service providers.This Government inherited the policy regarding allocation of transgender prisoners from the previous Government, and have not moved any transgender women into the women...
Answered 1 May 2025
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Prisons: NorfolkMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times prisons in Norfolk operated an (a) amber and (b) red regime in each the last 10 years.
Answer: As this information demonstrates, the new Government inherited a criminal justice system in crisis, with prisons on the point of collapse.All public sector prisons have systems in place for the day-to-day management of staff resources and regime delivery,...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
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Prisoners' Release: FinanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024 to Question 6326 on Probation Service, what new funding has been allocated to (a) the Probation Service, (b) the Electronic Monitoring Service and (c) support other servi
Answer: Recognising the Probation Service’s crucial role in protecting the public and rehabilitation, the Department has committed to funding at least 1,000 additional trainee probation officers by the end of March 2025.Given the multitude of factors involved, ea...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
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Prisoners: Special Educational NeedsMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will publish data on how many and what proportion of young people in prison in Norfolk had special educational needs and disabilities in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2021-22, (c) the last five years and (d)
Answer: Data relating to special educational needs and disabilities are not collected in a format that would enable the specified information to be provided.
Answered 18 Oct 2024
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Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6328More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions her Department has had with Napo on the impact of the prisoner early release scheme on workers in the probation service.
Answer: Probation Service officials meet regularly with Napo officials. In addition to weekly briefings, matters of note concerning the Probation Service, such as prison capacity measures, are discussed at quarterly consultative meetings, and at bi-monthly ‘stock...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
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Probation ServiceMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department made an assessment of the potential impact of the early prisoner release scheme on the probation service.
Answer: Amending the automatic release point for eligible Standard Determinate Sentences to 40% (SDS40) has allowed us to end more challenging measures like End of Custody Supervised Licence and move to a more transparent system.SDS40 will result in some offender...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
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Prison SentencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on (a) rehabilitation and (b) recidivism rates.
Answer: At its peak in 2012, there were over 6,000 offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence in custody. As of 30 June 2024, this had reduced to 2,734, of which 1,132 had never been released. As of 31 March 2024, there were 3,000 indi...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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Department or topic	Published records
Cabinet Office	10
Department for Business and Trade	5
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	2
Department for Education	22
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	11
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	25
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	3
Department for Transport	3
Department for Work and Pensions	11
Department of Health and Social Care	11
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	10
Home Office	14
Ministry of Defence	4
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	13
Ministry of Justice	7
Treasury	13

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