Iain Duncan Smith MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

GamblingMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department plans to take to improve training across all levels of the justice system on gambling-related harm.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice takes a person-centric approach to workplace wellbeing. Our support offer to individuals is delivered though the employee assistance programme, occupational health, staff networks and related policies. There have been a range of ev...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
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GamblingMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) awareness and (b) understanding of (i) gambling-related suicide and (ii) other gambling-related harm at all levels of the justice system.
Answer: In the Ministry of Justice, general training on wellbeing and resilience is available to all Civil Servants and we provide guidance to employees on suicide and self-harm. In previous Mental Health Awareness Weeks, specific events on ‘gambling addiction an...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
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Reoffenders: CannabisMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who were convicted for simple cannabis possession were also convicted for another offence by the category of that other offence in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the total number of convictions for possession of cannabis on all-offence basis in the All-offence prosecutions and convictions data tool.A breakdown on how many offenders convicted for possession of cannabis were...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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CannabisMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received custodial sentences for personal possession of cannabis excluding people imprisoned for intent to supply, production, or importation in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of offenders who received custodial sentences for possession of cannabis in the Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023.This can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Sentence Outcomes’ tab and using the ‘S...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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Department for Education	1
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	44
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	4
Ministry of Justice	4
Treasury	8

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