Nick Timothy MP: written questions
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Women's Justice Advisory GroupMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 13257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Women’s Justice Advisory Group was established and who currently sits on it.
Answer: We established the Women’s Justice Board (WJB) in 2024 to advise on reducing the number of women going to prison with more managed in the community. The WJB met formally three times in 2025 on 21 January, 29 April and 22 July – more information can be fou...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners convicted of being parts of grooming gangs will be released early under the Sentencing Act 2026.
Answer: The grooming gang scandal was one of the worst of our time, and this Government is determined to get to the truth behind years of systemic failure in the response to the appalling crimes which gang members committed. Prosecutions and convictions are now a...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: EqualityMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have successfully sued the Ministry of Justice and HMPPS over breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
Answer: It is rare for Public Sector Equality Duty claims to be litigated in isolation: they tend to be submitted as part of a wider claim. Litigation databases record whether a claim has an equality dimension, rather than specific information relating to the Pub...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHMP WinchesterMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Action Plan for HMP Winchester dated 19 June 2026, which underrepresented groups will be given focus under Point 11 regarding personal development opportunities.
Answer: The HMPPS Action Plan was published on 19 June 2026 in response to HM Inspectorate of Prisons findings from its unannounced inspection of HMP Winchester between 9 and 19 February 2026. HMIP found that personal development opportunities did not reach enoug...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: VettingMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officer applicants failed security vetting in the past two years.
Answer: Personnel Security Vetting is the first line of defence in the screening of people working for or on behalf of HMPPS, with the objective of preventing those unsuitable from entering the organisation.From 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2026, a total of 16,425 priso...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Mobile PhonesMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of possessing, without authority, a mobile phone inside a prison in the past year.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on the number of convictions of prisoners in possession, without authority, of a mobile phone inside a prison.Illicit mobile phones enable serious criminality and harm which impacts both prisons and the community...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the removal of transgender prisoners from women's prisons.
Answer: Prisons are devolved in Scotland and the laws governing them are different to those governing prisons in England and Wales. Issues around the allocation of transgender prisoners in Scottish prisons are, therefore, solely a matter for the Scottish Governme...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on how many people used sharia councils or tribunals in England and Wales in the past year.
Answer: There are no Sharia Councils or tribunals operated by the Government in the UK.
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are sharia councils in (a) England and (b) Wales.
Answer: There are no Sharia Courts in England or Wales.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11813More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department provided funding to sharia councils in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Department has not provided funding to sharia councils in the last 12 months.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Artificial IntelligenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the open-source AI model Qwen in the past two years.
Answer: As Qwen is free and open source, any individual or organisation can copy, edit, and use it without any payment to the author of the model.Qwen has been used within the Ministry of Justice for targeted analytical and research activities. Whilst use of the ...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHMP Belmarsh and HMP Manchester: PrisonersMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held at HMP Belmarsh or HMP Manchester have sued the Ministry of Justice or HMPPS over alleged breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
Answer: Since 1 June 2025, no claims submitted by prisoners against HMP Manchester or HMP Belmarsh have referred to a breach of the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMuslim Brotherhood: PrisonersMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of the Muslim Brotherhood are held in prisons in England and Wales.
Answer: Information about prisoners’ membership of specific organisations is not routinely recorded.
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals heard by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) in the last year were brought by sex offenders.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: HeatingMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons currently have underfloor heating in prisoner cells; and whether any under construction prison places will have underfloor heating in prisoner cells.
Answer: Underfloor heating is cheaper to run and safer in prisons because it operates at lower temperatures than traditional radiators, reducing energy costs, working efficiently with low-carbon heat pumps, distributing heat more evenly to minimise heat loss, and...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in compensation payments to prisoners convicted of terrorism offences in the past two years, broken down by each payment and the reason for it.
Answer: While we are aware that compensation payments have been made in the past two years to more than one prisoner convicted of terrorism offences, information of this nature is not collected as a discrete dataset. Details of compensation payments and offence d...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordRegistration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to make it a legal requirement for Muslim couples to civilly register their marriage before, or at the same time as, their Islamic ceremony.
Answer: For a marriage to be legally binding, it must comply with the relevant statutory framework, principally the Marriage Act 1949. The Act allows couples, including Muslim couples, to have a civil marriage or a religious marriage by marrying in their register...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Offences against ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether convicted child sex offenders can be housed in open prisons.
Answer: Determinate sentence prisoners, including those convicted of sex offences, are eligible to be considered for a move to open prisons when within five years of their earliest release date. Before they can transfer, however, their risk must be assessed as lo...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHMP MillsikeMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what design features of HMP Millsike are intended to support or address, a) biodiversity, b) social value, c) climate change, and d) the natural environment.
Answer: HMP Millsike opened in Spring 2025 as part of our commitment to deliver an additional 14,000 prisons places, aiming to do so by 2031.It is the UK’s first all-electric prison with over 1,800 roof-mounted solar PV panels and 130 Air Source Heat Pumps. HMP M...
Answered 26 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on how many people used sharia courts in England and Wales in the past year.
Answer: There are no Sharia courts in the UK.
Answered 22 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: TelephonesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in respect of prisoners making international calls from prisons in the past six months, a) which countries were called and b) how many times was each country called.
Answer: In the past six months, a total of 900,960 international call attempts were made from prisoners to over 150 different countries. Any telephone calls made by prisoners, including international calls, are paid for by the prisoner themselves. All calls are l...
Answered 24 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courtrooms in Crown courts were not sitting on each day in the last year.
Answer: The Crown Court operates from 84 buildings across England and Wales, with a core estate of over 500 courtrooms. The summary table below sets out the average number of courtrooms allocated for primary use by the Crown Court that were not sitting each month...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: HousingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the Standard Determinate Sentence 40% Scheme were a) in settled accommodation within three months of their release, and b) in full-time employment within s
Answer: Information on accommodation and employment outcomes for offenders in the Standard Determinate Sentences 40% (SDS40) scheme is not collected as a discrete dataset and therefore cannot be provided. Data relating to type of release is recorded on the Prison...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: HousingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in settled accommodation within three months of their release in each year since 2021.
Answer: The information requested is published as part of the Offender Accommodation Outcome Statistics series. The most recent release was published on 31 July 2025 and covered the period to March 2025. The series can be accessed via the following link: https://...
Answered 24 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: EmploymentMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in full-time employment within six months of their release in each year since 2021.
Answer: We know that finding employment after release reduces the chance of re-offending significantly, by up to nine percentage points. Key employment roles are in place across every resettlement prison to prepare prisoners for work on release, match them to job...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
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