Nick Timothy MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Prison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 30124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cells, rooms or dormitories in the prison estate have a Certified Normal Accommodation of (a) one and a maximum capacity of one, (b) one and a maximum capacity of two, (c) two and a maximum capacity of t
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 30100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison places included in baseline Certified Normal Accommodation but excluded from in-use Certified Normal Accommodation, broken down by establishment and, where recorded, by section or wing thereof; wi
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Personal NamesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 30097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for each different surname held by at least one prisoner, how many individual prisoners hold that surname across the prison estate, and likewise for each different first name.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 30093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims have (a) been contacted to confirm that their perpetrator will be released from prison early as a result of the Sentencing Act 2026, and (b) been contacted to confirm that their perpetrator will
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: ReligionMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 30058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in reference to Question 27585, on how many occasions, over the most recent available 12-month period, the recorded religion of a prisoner has been changed or added in Prison-NOMIS for any reason, broken down by
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrisonersMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his letter to the hon. Member for West Suffolk, dated 10 September 2026, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there will be more people in prison than ever before by the end of th
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordShoplifting: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the answer of 2 March 2026 to Question 116101, whether each offender in the table is counted once only in each calendar year; whether the previous-conviction band is measured at the offender’s l
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 29213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for West Suffolk of 26 June and 3 September 2026 regarding USAF Lakenheath.
Answer: The Department recognises the importance of responding to correspondence from Honourable and Right Honourable Members in a timely manner. The Hon. Member's letters of 26 June and 3 September have been received and were carefully considered. The Hon. Membe...
Answered 21 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 29212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a list of the type of victims by offence group who are (a) eligible and (b) not eligible, to receive a letter informing them of changes made by the Sentencing Act 2026 that will impact them.
Answer: The Sentencing Act 2026 contains provisions which change the proportion of a standard determinate sentence that must be served in custody before an offender is automatically released on licence. In June 2026, letters were issued to victims engaged with th...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTheft: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence in the theft offences group in England and Wales in 2024; and how many of those received an immediate custodial sentence of (i) less than one month, (ii) one month to
Answer: The information requested is provided in the attached tables. These tables include data covering the period 2024 on: - The number of offenders who were convicted of a specified offence type (theft or violence against the person) and did receive an immedia...
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCrimes against the Person and Theft: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of (a) theft from a shop, (b) burglary, (c) any theft offence other than theft from a shop, (d) robbery and (e) violence against the person in England and Wales in 2024 and did not
Answer: The information requested is provided in the attached tables. These tables include data covering the period 2024 on: - The number of offenders who were convicted of a specified offence type (theft or violence against the person) and did receive an immedia...
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCrimes against the Person: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of a violence against the person offence in England and Wales in 2024 and, of these people, how many received an immediate custodial sentence of (i) less than one month, (ii) one mo
Answer: The information requested is provided in the attached tables. These tables include data covering the period 2024 on: - The number of offenders who were convicted of a specified offence type (theft or violence against the person) and did receive an immedia...
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordShoplifting: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of theft from a shop in 2024, broken down by the number of people who received an immediate custodial sentence of (a) less than one month, (b) one month to less than three months, (
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on convictions, sentencing outcomes and custodial sentence lengths for a wide range of offences in the Outcome by Offences Tool, including theft from shops. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Stat...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAxel RudakubanaMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Axel Rudakubana has assaulted any (a) staff and (b) patients at Broadmoor Hospital; how long he is expected to be held there; and for what reason he was moved there from HMP Belmarsh.
Answer: We do not comment on the management of prisoners transferred into secure hospitals from custody, including on allegations about their actions. Such matters fall to the detaining hospital to address either through their own security procedures or where app...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Public AppointmentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness and adequacy of his Department's report entitled MOJ public appointments diversity and outreach strategy, published on 11 June 2026.
Answer: The Public Appointments Diversity and Outreach Strategy 2026 outlines how the Ministry of Justice will improve diversity, fairness and transparency in public appointments through strengthened outreach, recruitment processes and data-driven decision making...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to provide the total monetary amount claimed in legal aid in each of the past three years, broken down by whether the person claiming it was (a) a British citizen, (b) a non-citizen with a breakdown per country o
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Length of ServiceMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to provide a breakdown of how many band 3-5 prison officers had at least five years service in HMPPS at the end of the last three financial years.
Answer: The numbers of band 3-5 prison officers who have had at least five years’ service in HMPPS at the end of the last three financial years is published quarterly as part “HM Prison and Probation Service Workforce Quarterly” statistics publication. The latest...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners who have assaulted a prison guard remain eligible for early release, and how many prisoners set to be released in the first ten tranches have previously assaulted a prison guard.
Answer: We punish prisoners who are violent towards staff by giving them penalties that can include adding days onto their sentence. We doubled the maximum number of additional days that Independent Adjudicators can impose for a single incident of behaviour from ...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of the index offences of serving prisoners who were given Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences and have been recalled to prison.
Answer: Offences for recalled IPP offenders, on 30 June 2026 Offence groupNumber of offendersViolence against the person536Robbery388Sexual offences321Possession of weapons52Theft Offences47Criminal damage and arson35Miscellaneous crimes against society20Summary ...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSexual Offences: Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners convicted of buggery under the 1956 Sexual Offences Act are eligible for early release.
Answer: The Government has listened to victims and excluded a large number of serious offences from the progression model, ensuring that offenders convicted of rape, certain child sexual offences, grooming offences and unlawful killing offences remain subject to ...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to repurpose prisons in the female estate to house male prisoners.
Answer: On 1 September, we announced a package of criminal justice reforms intended to maintain sustainable prison capacity while protecting the public and victims. As part of that package, the Government set out its ambition to reduce the number of women in pris...
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks of holding 18 year-olds for longer in the youth estate.
Answer: On 1 September, my Rt Hon Friend the Lord Chancellor announced in a statement on criminal justice reform that, to help relieve some of the adult prison capacity challenges, a decision had been taken to hold some 18-year-olds for longer in the youth estate...
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCommunity OrdersMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community sentences were breached in the past two years, including how they were breached, what the outcome of the breach was, and how many of those who breached their community sentence were sent to pri
Answer: The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data on community order and suspended sentence order terminations, by termination reason, including those terminated following a further conviction or due to non-compliance with court ordered requirements. The l...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordShoplifting: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted shoplifters and what percentage of convicted shoplifters avoided an immediate custodial sentence for shoplifting in the past two years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on convictions and sentencing outcomes for a wide range of offences in the Outcome by Offences Tool, including theft from shops. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Cr...
Answered 11 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences were released and then recalled to prison because they committed violent or sexual offences, in the last three years.
Answer: In 2023, there were 195 IPP recalls related to further charges, 170 in 2024 and 97 in 2025. HMPPS does not record details of the alleged offence or the outcome of any subsequent court proceedings. This information is routinely published in the Offender Ma...
Answered 11 Sept 2026
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