Nick Timothy MP: written questions
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Criminal Proceedings: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations and individuals will be consulted for the report by David Ormerod into the function and purpose of criminal courts for child defendants.
Answer: David Ormerod was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as an Expert Advisor on the future of criminal courts for children via the Direct Ministerial Appointments process. As set out in the published Te...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordConvictions: Young PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 25 years old were convicted of (a) rape, (b) murder, (c) manslaughter, (d) burglary, (e) sexual offences and (f) kidnapping in England and Wales in 2025.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions by age group for a wide variety of offences including rape, murder, manslaughter, burglary, sexual offences, and kidnapping in the Outcomes by Offences data tool. This can be downloaded from the Crimin...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordConvictions: Young PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 25 years old were convicted of offences in England and Wales in 2025.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions by age group for a wide variety of offences in the Outcomes by Offences data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCriminal Proceedings: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what appointment process was followed which resulted in David Ormerod being chosen to produce a report into the function and purpose of criminal courts for child defendants.
Answer: David Ormerod was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as an Expert Advisor on the future of criminal courts for children via the Direct Ministerial Appointments process. As set out in the published Te...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCriminal Proceedings: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the estimated total cost of the report by David Ormerod into the function and purpose of criminal courts for child defendants.
Answer: David Ormerod was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as an Expert Advisor on the future of criminal courts for children via the Direct Ministerial Appointments process. As set out in the published Te...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Smart DevicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were discovered to have unauthorised (a) mobile phones, (b) iPads and (c) gaming devices in the past year.
Answer: Table 6.1 of the HMPPS Annual Digest (Chapter 6, Finds in Prison) shows the latest figures for incidents where illicit items were found in prisons in England and Wales. Table 6.3 shows the number of mobile telephones found each month, by establishment. Th...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCriminal Proceedings: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the inquiry on the function and purpose of criminal courts for child defendants.
Answer: On 18 May 2026, the Government announced the appointment of Professor David Ormerod CBE, KC (Hon) as Expert Adviser to examine the future of criminal courts for children. This work will begin in June 2026 and is expected to report by August 2027.The Terms...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCriminal Proceedings: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which jurisdictions and international comparators David Ormerod will look at as part of his report into the function and purpose of criminal courts for child defendants.
Answer: On 18 May 2026, the Government announced the appointment of Professor David Ormerod CBE, KC (Hon) as Expert Adviser to examine the future of criminal courts for children. This work will begin in June 2026 and is expected to report by August 2027.The Terms...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown CourtMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courtrooms in crown courts were not sitting on each day in the past month.
Answer: The Crown Court operates from 84 buildings across England and Wales, with a core estate of over 500 courtrooms. The table below outlines the number of courtrooms in the Crown Court that were not sitting each day in April 2026. To contextualise these figur...
Answered 12 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released under automatic release returned to prison within six weeks, in the past year.
Answer: We have interpreted your question to be asking for, of the number of prisoners who are released at their automatic release date, how many are recalled to prison within 6 weeks of their release. We regularly publish data on releases and recalls via our Acc...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: DrugsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to provide a list of the types of drugs recovered from drones in prisons in the past six months.
Answer: The information requested cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost. Reports of finds can include an indication of the likely nature of the substance found, but this is subject to subsequent testing, and these data are not collated centra...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biologically male prisoners are currently held in the female prison estate.
Answer: For transgender women with birth genitalia and/or any history of violent or sexual offending to be held in the general female prison estate, the decision must be signed off by the Secretary of State. None of these decisions have been made under the curren...
Answered 5 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHM Prison and Probation Service: Disciplinary ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff at HM Prison and Probation Service have currently been suspended with pay for more than one year.
Answer: As of 21 May 2026, there were 51 staff in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) who have been suspended with pay for more than one year. These figures include staff who have been continuously suspended on pay since before 21 May 2025. As at t...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMobile Phones: TheftMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the total cost of legal aid claimed by those charged or convicted with the theft of mobile phones in London in the past year.
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordShoplifting: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of more than (a) 25 shoplifting offences, (b) 50 shoplifting offences, (c) 100 shoplifting offences, (d) 150 shoplifting offences and (e) 200 shoplifting offences in the past two ye
Answer: There was one offender with more than 25 but fewer than 50 sentencing occasions where the primary offence was shoplifting across 2024 and 2025. No offenders had 50 or more qualifying sentencing occasions.The sentencing occasions in which shoplifting was r...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were charged with more than (a) 25, (b) 50, (c) 100, (d) 150 and (e) 200 shoplifting offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on charging decisions.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordProsecutions: Young PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 18 were charged with more than (a) 50 offences, (b) 100 offences, (c) 150 offences and (d) 200 offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on charging decisions.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordYoung Offenders: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 18 years old were convicted of more than (a) 50 offences, (b) 100 offences, (c) 150 offences and (d) 200 offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: Zero.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: ContraceptivesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times female prisoners have been provided with an emergency contraceptive pill in the past two years.
Answer: Although NHS England does not hold this information either nationally or regionally, access to emergency oral hormonal contraception is available at all female prisons; and healthcare professionals should provide information and advice about the full rang...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were physically assaulted by other prisoners in the past three years.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Information on prisoner-on-prisoner assaults is published in the Ministry of Justice’s Safety in Custody statistics and can be found here: Safety in custody: quarterly update to Dec...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the total amount spent on (a) compensation payments and (b) other payments to prison officers due to injury caused by assault by a prisoner in the last two financial years.
Answer: Total payment to staff employed by HM Prison Service in relation to injuries resulting from assault by a prisoner was £2,259,396 in 2024-25 and £1,997,248 in 2025-26. It is not possible to disaggregate these totals to show payments to prisoner officer gra...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Unmanned Air SystemsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drones were sighted over prisons in England and Wales between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many drones were recovered by prisons between July 2024 and April 2026.
Answer: We publish the number of drone incidents in England and Wales in the HMPPS Annual Digest, please see table 6_1 in the Finds tables. The latest issue covers the 12-month period to March 2025, with a time series of drone incidents starting from the 12-month...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers who were assaulted by prisoners between July 2024 and April 2026 were sent to hospital.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were physically assaulted by prisoners in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Information on assaults on staff in prisons in England and Wales is published quarterly through the Ministry of Justice’s Safety in Custody statistics. The latest publication, cover...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: DisciplineMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison rules were broken in prisons in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many individual prisoners broke (a) over 50 and (b) at least one rule in that time.
Answer: Where it is discovered that a prisoner has broken the prison rules, prison staff can respond in several ways including by placing a prisoner on report for an adjudication, issuing an incentive level warning or undertaking an incentive review where a priso...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
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