Robert Jenrick MP: written questions 2025
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Prisons: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has issued to prison governors a consolidated list of extremist material banned in prisons.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has recently assessed the (a) scale and (b) nature of the threat from (i) Islamist and (ii) far-right prisoners radicalising other inmates.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact for her policies of the judgement in R (De Silva) v Secretary of State for Justice [2025] EWHC 128 (Admin) on the ability of prison governors to isolate (a
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many a) Separation Centres and b) segregation wings in the prison estate are currently in use; and what is their total available capacity.
Answer: There are three separation centres, all within the Long-Term High Security Estate, with a total capacity of 28 prisoner places. Two are currently operational, and the third is available for use when required.109 segregation wings or units in the prison es...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Accommodation: FacilitiesMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to suspend the use of kitchen facilities in Separation Centres within prisons.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Sentencing Council's guidance entitled Imposition of community and custodial sentences - Effective from 1 April 2025, whether her Department has made an (a) estimate of the (i) additional nu
Answer: Where a court is considering whether an offender should receive a sentence of immediate custody, a pre-sentence report must be obtained and considered before forming an opinion unless, in the circumstances of the case, the court considers that it is unnec...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordJudiciaryMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to set a target date to achieve a representative (a) judiciary and (b) magistracy.
Answer: The Government is strongly committed to achieving a judiciary which better represents the diversity of the population. This comprises of judges, non-legal members and magistrates.We continue to work closely with the judiciary, the Judicial Appointments Co...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP Long Lartin: Domestic VisitsMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has visited HMP Long Lartin since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Lord Chancellor has been closely involved in the response to the urgent notifications we have received. Each is a reminder of the state of crisis that the last Government left behind in our prisons.The Prisons Minister will be visiting HMP Long Lartin...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSolicitors: MisrepresentationAttorney GeneralTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33476More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many people are prosecuted under s21 of the Solicitors Act 1974 each year.
Answer: The Crown Prosecution Service holds data on the number of prosecutions where a charge has been authorised and reached a first hearing in the magistrates’ courts for specific offences.The below table provides details of the number of offences charged under...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33475More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what meetings (a) he and (b) his Ministers have had with the (i) Albanian, (ii) Polish, (iii) Romanian, (iv) Irish and (v) Jamaican Government to discuss increasing the numbe
Answer: Increasing the numbers of foreign national offender returns from our prisons is a priority for this government. We are working with international partners to achieve this.In the last six months, the Foreign Secretary discussed criminal justice cooperation...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings (a) she and (b) her Ministers have had with the (i) Albanian, (ii) Polish, (iii) Romanian, (iv) Irish and (v) Jamaican Government to discuss increasing the number of foreign national offenders retur
Answer: Increasing the numbers of foreign national offender returns from our prisons is a priority for this Government. We are working with international partners to achieve this. In the last six months, Ministers from the Ministry of Justice have met with Polish...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any people released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme have reported faults with their tags since September 2024.
Answer: The longest period between receipt of an electronic monitoring requirement order by the Electronic Monitoring provider and installation for an offender with a revised SDS40 release date was 53 days for releases in tranche one. Tranche two’s performance wa...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33472More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, what the longest period of time was that a person released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) r
Answer: The longest period between receipt of an electronic monitoring requirement order by the Electronic Monitoring provider and installation for an offender with a revised SDS40 release date was 53 days for releases in tranche one. Tranche two’s performance wa...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, how many SDS40 releases did not have a prison tag in (a) Tranche one and (b) Tranche two.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice published transparent data on Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 SDS40 releases on 7 November 2024. Whilst some of these releases would have had a tag as a licence condition, the data the Department holds on electronic monitoring does not del...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for ending the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme.
Answer: This Government has committed to reviewing the scheme after 18 months of implementation.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSexual Offences: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) sentenced for a sex offence in their absence in the last 10 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions and sentences for sexual and grooming related offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice St...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) sentenced for grooming gang-related offences in their absence in the last 10 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions and sentences for sexual and grooming related offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice St...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2025 to Question 28962, whether his Department has conducted a value for money assessment of the proposed agreement with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands.
Answer: The treaty is not finalised yet, when the deal is finalised, the Government will put it before the House.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2025 to Question 28962, whether his Department has conducted a value for money assessment of the proposed agreement with Mauritius on th
Answer: On 3 October 2024, the UK and Mauritius reached a political agreement to secure the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, which is an essential part of our global defence network.HMT has been working with the FCDO and the MOD on the agreement who, as the l...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCourts: Opening HoursMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of providing an additional 4,000 court sitting days in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: I am assuming the Rt. Honourable Gentleman is referring to the Crown Court with his question. The current Lord Chancellor increased the allocation of Crown Court sitting days for the current financial year by 2,500 additional days. This takes the total al...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLaw ReportingMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is of a transcript for a (a) court and (b) tribunal hearing.
Answer: HMCTS contracts with external suppliers to provide court transcripts. Management information from these suppliers for the period January to December 2024 was extracted as follows:Total number of court and tribunal transcripts produced: 45,178The average c...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of when the backlog in Crown Court cases will begin to fall.
Answer: This Government inherited a record and rising Crown Court backlog. The outstanding caseload remains one of the biggest challenges facing the criminal justice system and stood at 73,105 as of 30 September 2024. Even if we were to sit at maximum capacity in...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has the backlog in Crown Court cases in (a) 2024-25 and (b) each of the next three financial years.
Answer: This Government inherited a record and rising Crown Court backlog. The outstanding caseload remains one of the biggest challenges facing the criminal justice system and stood at 73,105 as of 30 September 2024. Even if we were to sit at maximum capacity in...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyTreasuryTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28962More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has conducted a value for money assessment of the proposed agreement with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands.
Answer: HMT has been working with the FCDO and the MOD on the agreement who, as the lead departments, are responsible for assessing its value for money under the Managing Public Money framework.
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAttorney General's Office: Matrix ChambersAttorney GeneralTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26565More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Attorney General has provided the (a) Permanent Secretary and (b) Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards a list of his (a) paid and (b) unpaid fees further to his past employment at Matrix Chambers.
Answer: As I set out to the House on Thursday 23 January, and the Attorney General repeated in the House of Lords on Monday 27 January, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has an established and rigorous process for identifying and dealing with conflicts, and pot...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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