Kim Johnson MP: written questions 2025
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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
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