Kim Johnson MP: written questions
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Gangs: DatabasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving custodial sentences were convicted based on evidence from the Gang Violence Matrix.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on offenders convicted and sentenced to immediate custody in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.However, dat...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix who have been convicted under joint enterprise laws.
Answer: The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on (a) the potential impact of its gang violence matrix on ethnic minority groups and (b) the steps it is taking to ensure that its policing p
Answer: The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on taking steps to allow people who have been wrongfully included on the gang violence matrix to challenge their inclusion before the deletion
Answer: The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Data ProtectionHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve the transparency of processes for the (a) collection, (b) retention and (c) use of data by the police.
Answer: The Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The deletion of the data held on the GVM is an operational matter for the Metropo...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the steps it is taking to ensure that data shared with third parties from the gang violence matrix is not (a) misused and (b) further disse
Answer: The Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The deletion of the data held on the GVM is an operational matter for the Metropo...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of deleting the Gang Violence Matrix on the ability of wrongfully convicted people to appeal their convictions.
Answer: The now decommissioned Gang Violence Matrix was an operational risk assessment tool used by the Metropolitan Police. As a risk assessment tool, it was not used to provide evidence on which a person could be convicted. The deletion of the Gang Violence Mat...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to contact people who were included on the Gang Violence Matrix to enable them to access their information before its deletion on 13 February 2025.
Answer: The Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The deletion of the data held on the GVM is an operational matter for the Metropo...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) incarcerated based on information obtained from the Gang Violence Matrix since 2011.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on defendants prosecuted and sentenced to immediate custody in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.However, d...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26572More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure people who were convicted using information from the Gang Violence Matrix can appeal their convictions after the database is deleted.
Answer: The Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The deletion of the data held on the GVM is an operational matter for the Metropo...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the permanent deletion of the Metropolitan Police's Gang Violence Matrix database on access to justice for people who were wrongfully included o
Answer: The Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The deletion of the data held on the GVM is an operational matter for the Metropo...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences.
Answer: It is right that the sentence was abolished. The Government is determined to make further progress towards a safe and sustainable release for those serving the IPP sentence, but not in a way that impacts public protection.For 2022/23, the average Overall ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ProcurementMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question HL3055, Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the public sector will be allowed to bid for new contracts for the provision of maintenance services for pr
Answer: The Ministry of Justice will not be inviting public sector bids for the provision of maintenance services for prisons. A 2023 assessment undertaken in partnership with the Cabinet Office determined that a privatised solution was the preferred option for m...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison due to criminal allegations made against them which did not result in further polic
Answer: Data on the number of offenders recalled to custody after becoming homeless are not held centrally and could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.Information about the number of IPP recalls is published in quarterly offender management statistics - O...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison by (a) category and (b) reason for recall, in each of the past eight quarters.
Answer: Data on the number of offenders recalled to custody after becoming homeless are not held centrally and could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.Information about the number of IPP recalls is published in quarterly offender management statistics - O...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: HomelessnessMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an IPP sentence have been recalled to prison because of homelessness in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: Data on the number of offenders recalled to custody after becoming homeless are not held centrally and could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.Information about the number of IPP recalls is published in quarterly offender management statistics - O...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: HomelessnessMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been recalled to prison because of homelessness in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: Data on the number of offenders recalled to custody after becoming homeless are not held centrally and could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.Information about the number of IPP recalls is published in quarterly offender management statistics - O...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMerseyrail: NationalisationDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20456More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislation to allow the Mayor of the Liverpool City Region to appoint a public sector operator to run Merseyrail services.
Answer: The Mayor of the Liverpool City Region already has the power to appoint a public sector operator to run Merseyrail services. There are no plans to change this.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the needs of the palliative and end of life care sector will be represented in the upcoming NHS workforce plan.
Answer: The refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan will deliver the transformed health service that we will build over the next decade and will ensure that patients get the treatment they need, when and where they need it, including those at the end of their lives. I...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether palliative and end of life care will prioritised in the new NHS 10-year plan.
Answer: We have committed to developing a 10-year plan to deliver a National Health Service fit for the future. We will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact people with palliative and end of life care needs, with input from the public, p...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFuel Poverty: LiverpoolDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Marie Curie report Dying in Poverty, published on 12 November 2024, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) tackle fuel poverty and (b) reduce the number of peop
Answer: The Government is committed to a preventative approach to public health. Keeping people warm and well at home and improving the quality of new and existing homes will play an essential part in enabling people to live longer, healthier lives, reducing pres...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoverty: LiverpoolDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled Dying in Poverty, published by Marie Curie in November 2024, what steps she is taking to tackle the levels of people dying in poverty in Liverpool.
Answer: The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benef...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to communicate to eligible (i) EU, (ii) migrant and (iii) other voters the provisions of the Elections Act 2022.
Answer: The Electoral Commission has a statutory duty to raise public awareness of all elements of the democratic process, including changes made to it, to ensure voters can participate. The Government will continue to support the Commission in communicating the ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVoting RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support her Department provides to (a) voter groups and (b) civil society organisations on changes to voter eligibility requirements under the Elections Act 2022.
Answer: The Electoral Commission, as the independent electoral regulator, holds responsibility for issuance of guidance and support for candidates, agents and local authorities on electoral registration and voting.This can be found at: Our guidance | Electoral Co...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Voting RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) guidance and (b) support her Department provides to local (i) councillors and (ii) authorities on voter eligibility requirements.
Answer: The Electoral Commission, as the independent electoral regulator, holds responsibility for issuance of guidance and support for candidates, agents and local authorities on electoral registration and voting.This can be found at: Our guidance | Electoral Co...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
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