Every parliamentary written question tabled by John Hayes this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Whether she has had recent discussions with the Victims' Commissioner on the potential impact on victims of her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in priso
Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that vict...
If she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have been convicted of domestic abuse and (b) will be released early from prison as part of the SDS40 scheme.
There is no single offence for domestic abuse defined in legislation as many other criminal offences can include domestic abuse.The SDS40 change has exclusions for specific offences linked to domestic abuse including stalking, coercive or controlling beha...
Whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales to prisons overseas.
We have prisoner transfer agreements with over 100 countries which enable us to send foreign national offenders to serve the remainder of their prison sentence in their home country. We are reviewing the opportunities to strengthen or expand these arrange...
What estimate she has made of the number of people jailed for violent disorder offences this summer who will be released after serving 40% of their sentence.
The change to the automatic release point for eligible Standard Determinate Sentences (SDS40) is an ongoing change the Government was forced to introduce. We cannot predict who will enter custody or the sentences they will receive from the independent jud...
Whether she plans to build new prisons in England and Wales.
We are committed to delivering the remaining new prisons as well as the expansion and refurbishment of the existing estate, including through temporary accommodation, as quickly as possible, and to ensure the planning processes for new prisons are not sub...
If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policy to change the automatic release point to 40% for certain standard determinate sentences on reoffending rates.
Prisoners released on SDS40 will be subject to licence and liable to recall to prison if they do not comply or are judged a risk to public safety. Reoffending rates are published regularly on an annual and quarterly basis. The most recent rates are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics.A critical element of reducing reoffending is ensuring offenders leaving prison can access the support they need to resettle effectively into the community. There are clear processes in place to ensure all releases are carefully managed by Prison and Probation staff. An offender’s resettlement needs are assessed on their arrival into the prison estate, with appropriate provision arranged in advance of release. When the release date is changed, as is the case with SDS40, this provision is realigned to that new release date.As with any offender being released, where victims are receiving the services of the Victim Contact Scheme (VCS) or the Victim Notification Scheme (VNS), they will be informed about the release of an offender.
How many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Lincoln (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
The table below shows the number of prisoners released from, and recalled to, HMP Lincoln and HMP Peterborough between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the number of those who were subsequently recalled, either once or more than once, during that period.Prison released fromNumber of releasesNumber of offenders recalled once2Number of offenders recalled more than once2Lincoln8787215Peterborough1 1,43713941Notes:Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.Number of individual sentences. It is possible that a very small number of offenders may have been released for the first time on different sentences during the period. The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.Source: Prison NOMIS and Public Protection Database
How many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Peterborough (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
The table below shows the number of prisoners released from, and recalled to, HMP Lincoln and HMP Peterborough between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the number of those who were subsequently recalled, either once or more than once, during that period.Prison released fromNumber of releasesNumber of offenders recalled once2Number of offenders recalled more than once2Lincoln8787215Peterborough1 1,43713941Notes:Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.Number of individual sentences. It is possible that a very small number of offenders may have been released for the first time on different sentences during the period. The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.Source: Prison NOMIS and Public Protection Database
How many people have been convicted for breaching covid-19 restrictions since January 2022.
The Ministry of Justice holds data on convictions for breaching coronavirus regulations covering the period requested and this can be viewed in the Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023.Specific offences of note include the following HO codes:16857 – Failure to comply with screening restriction/requirement (coronavirus)16858 – Operator of Port fails to comply with direction under Coronavirus Act 202016859 – Offences by potentially infectious persons (coronavirus)16860 – Breach of emergency period restrictions (coronavirus)16861 – Offences in relation to events and gatherings (coronavirus)These can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab and using the HO Offence Code filter to select an above offence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool.
How many people have been convicted of violent crimes involving a crossbow in the last five years.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for a wide range of offences against specific Home Office offence codes in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023.However, it is not possible to separately identify offences specifically involving a crossbow from a range of other violent offences. This information to enable such a split may be held on court records, but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate cost.
How many and what proportion of people under electronic monitoring broke the conditions of their release in each year since 2015.
To establish the number and proportion of those with an electronic monitoring requirement that have broken their electronic monitoring condition, or other licence conditions, since 2015 would require a trawl through thousands of individual case records held on prison and probation systems. Such information could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of repurposing empty buildings for use as prisons.
We are committed to delivering 20,000 prison places and accelerating the prison building programme to ensure we have the cells we need. In relation to repurposing empty buildings for use as prisons, we continue to investigate any options which present viable ways to increase the number of places in the estate, which are also compliant with security standards. This enables us to deliver a secure environment which provides a prison regime that is safe for both prisoners and staff, and ultimately keeps the public safe.The government has committed to a 10-year capacity strategy which will include the steps we will take to ensure we have a sustainable pipeline of prison places in delivery over the next decade, and ultimately reduce reoffending and drive down the prison population.