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  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, at how many tribunal hearings on appeals over benefit claims in each of the last four years the relevant Department failed to send a presenting officer; and how many such hearings were lost by the Government.

    Mr Shailesh Vara

    The First-tier Tribunal – Social Security and Child Support (SSCS), administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work & Pensions’ (DWP) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) decisions on a range of benefits. It also hears appeals against Local Authorities on Housing Benefit decisions.

    The table below shows the data requested for each year from 1 April 2010 until December 2013 (the latest period for data is available).

    It is a matter for the relevant Department or Local Authority as to whether they send a presenting Officer to an appeal unless directed to do so by the Tribunal. Departments and Local Authorities will consider each appeal on a case by case basis.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-18.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former employees of probation trusts received payouts of (a) up to £5,000, (b) up to £10,0000, (c) up to £15,000, (d) up to £20,000, (e) up to £30,000, (f) up to £40,000, (g) up to £50,000, (h) up to £75,000, (i) up to £100,000 or (j) £100,000 or more since 1 January 2014.

    Jeremy Wright

    Prior to 1 June, probation staff in England & Wales were employed by the 35 probation trusts. Employment data of the kind requested were held by the individual probations trusts. They were not collected centrally and it would not be possible to obtain the information without incurring disproportionate cost.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-03-11.

    To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many voters in (a) London, (b) each London borough and (c) each parliamentary constituency in London could not be matched as part of the recent confirmation dry run carried out by the Electoral Commission.

    Gary Streeter

    The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match. This work was carried out by the Cabinet Office and not directly by the Electoral Commission.

    The red and amber results for London, each London borough and each parliamentary constituency in London were as follows:

    LONDON

    Red

    Amber

    London

    1,523,114

    280,337

    LONDON BOROUGH

    Red

    Amber

    Barking & Dagenham

    26,127

    2,430

    Barnet

    58,211

    8,529

    Bexley

    30,494

    2,168

    Brent

    58,460

    12,198

    Bromley

    39,726

    4,737

    Camden

    52,346

    20,136

    City of London

    2,779

    258

    Croydon

    57,129

    8,005

    Ealing

    58,701

    12,776

    Enfield

    40,801

    6,474

    Greenwich

    40,056

    4,769

    Hackney

    57,498

    10,065

    Hammersmith & Fulham

    39,378

    16,210

    Haringey

    53,621

    15,010

    Harrow

    37,983

    4,588

    Havering

    28,332

    2,606

    Hillingdon

    45,437

    4,366

    Hounslow

    45,995

    6,085

    Islington

    51,188

    12,795

    Kensington and Chelsea

    43,133

    13,482

    Kingston upon Thames

    26,100

    3,118

    Lambeth

    81,417

    14,165

    Lewisham

    52,211

    8,834

    Merton

    34,821

    4,981

    Newham

    64,311

    8,981

    Redbridge

    48,608

    5,702

    Richmond upon Thames

    28,672

    4,654

    Southwark

    67,234

    9,160

    Sutton

    23,790

    3,148

    Tower Hamlets

    53,028

    8,225

    Waltham Forest

    46,129

    7,389

    Wandsworth

    73,033

    17,032

    Westminster

    56,365

    17,261

    LONDON PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES

    Red

    Amber

    Barking

    17,910

    1,651

    Battersea

    26,831

    6,751

    Beckenham

    10,868

    1,041

    Bermondsey and Old Southwark

    33,169

    3,549

    Bethnal Green and Bow

    27,095

    4,655

    Bexleyheath and Crayford

    10,728

    750

    Brent Central

    25,187

    6,123

    Brent North

    23,399

    3,410

    Brentford and Isleworth

    26,105

    3,809

    Bromley and Chislehurst

    12,019

    1,345

    Camberwell and Peckham

    27,167

    4,040

    Carshalton and Wallington

    11,186

    1,491

    Chelsea and Fulham

    26,701

    8,467

    Chingford and Woodford Green

    12,736

    1,379

    Chipping Barnet

    16,855

    2,190

    Cities of London and Westminster

    33,759

    7,674

    Croydon Central

    17,235

    2,057

    Croydon North

    24,436

    4,033

    Croydon South

    15,458

    1,915

    Dagenham and Rainham

    12,564

    1,195

    Dulwich and West Norwood

    23,880

    4,861

    Ealing Central and Acton

    23,996

    6,646

    Ealing North

    17,761

    2,709

    Ealing Southall

    16,944

    3,421

    East Ham

    32,053

    4,476

    Edmonton

    13,762

    2,233

    Eltham

    11,835

    1,226

    Enfield North

    12,557

    1,533

    Enfield Southgate

    14,482

    2,708

    Erith and Thamesmead

    16,321

    1,184

    Feltham and Heston

    19,890

    2,276

    Finchley and Golders Green

    20,416

    3,855

    Greenwich and Woolwich

    20,864

    2,975

    Hackney North and Stoke Newington

    28,427

    6,110

    Hackney South and Shoreditch

    29,071

    3,955

    Hammersmith

    25,041

    10,874

    Hampstead and Kilburn

    29,704

    13,337

    Harrow East

    15,483

    1,852

    Harrow West

    18,134

    2,206

    Hayes and Harlington

    17,540

    2,110

    Hendon

    20,940

    2,484

    Holborn and St Pancras

    32,516

    9,464

    Hornchurch and Upminster

    11,456

    1,073

    Hornsey and Wood Green

    26,706

    8,550

    Ilford North

    15,605

    1,554

    Ilford South

    25,007

    3,242

    Islington North

    25,295

    7,491

    Islington South and Finsbury

    25,893

    5,304

    Kensington

    30,769

    10,351

    Kingston and Surbiton

    19,493

    2,381

    Lewisham Deptford

    24,795

    4,336

    Lewisham East

    16,939

    2,741

    Lewisham West and Penge

    18,129

    3,239

    Leyton and Wanstead

    20,763

    3,727

    Mitcham and Morden

    16,823

    2,280

    Old Bexley and Sidcup

    10,802

    802

    Orpington

    9,187

    869

    Poplar and Limehouse

    25,933

    3,570

    Putney

    21,693

    3,538

    Richmond Park

    18,456

    3,023

    Romford

    12,529

    1,117

    Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

    13,858

    1,443

    Streatham

    30,298

    5,420

    Sutton and Cheam

    12,604

    1,657

    Tooting

    24,509

    6,743

    Tottenham

    26,915

    6,460

    Twickenham

    16,823

    2,368

    Uxbridge and South Ruislip

    18,405

    1,343

    Vauxhall

    34,137

    5,455

    Walthamstow

    20,626

    3,189

    West Ham

    32,258

    4,505

    Westminster North

    25,385

    9,845

    Wimbledon

    17,998

    2,701

    Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

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  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-03-27.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, from which companies additional spaces have been purchased in which prisons in each month since May 2010.

    Jeremy Wright

    A significant amount of this information is not held centrally, and we would need to interrogate a very large volume of separate files to obtain the information required and then review and collate that information. By doing so we would incur disproportionate costs.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason each foreign national in prison awaiting deportation who is beyond the end of their sentence is yet to be deported.

    James Brokenshire

    The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full time equivalent prison officers were employed and how many such staff were off sick at HM Prison Northumberland on Saturday 29 March 2014.

    Jeremy Wright

    The information requested could not be obtained within the timescale. I will write to the Member in due course.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many acts of prisoner on prisoner violence there have been in HM Prison High Down in each month since September 2013.

    Jeremy Wright

    The number of assaults on staff and prisoner on prisoner assaults at HMP High Down between September 2013 and December 2013 can be found in Table 1. The monthly figures between September 2013 and December 2013 are broadly in line with the average number of assaults at HMP High Down over the last 5 years. Assault statistics by establishment are published annually in April with the latest statistics published covering up to 2013.

    There are many factors that can drive changes in the number of assaults at individual establishments from one month to the next, including changes in admissions rates and composition of the prison population. Short-term monthly figures do not give a good indication of trends, and a view over a long time period should be taken when considering trends.

    Table 1: Number of assaults, HMP High Down, September 2013 to December 2013

    September

    October

    November

    December

    Assaults on staff

    2

    3

    3

    5

    Prisoner on prisoner assaults (including fights)

    19

    11

    12

    8
  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-28.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for sending illicit or unauthorised items through the post to prisoners in establishments in England and Wales in each of the last four years.

    Jeremy Wright

    Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of illicit items into prisons. Any contraband detected coming into the prison will be recorded on a central incident reporting system. However, to identify the manner in which the contraband entered the prison and any subsequent referral to the police would require a manual interrogation of incident reports. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

    Information on prosecutions and convictions for these offences is not held centrally and could only be obtained by asking each prison to source information locally. This, again, could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners there were in each prison in each of the last four years.

    Jeremy Wright

    The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not tolerate violence of any kind in prisons and any instance is taken very seriously.

    NOMS is committed to exploring options to continue to improve how violence is tackled in prisons to keep both staff and prisoners safe. It is currently reviewing the policy and practice of the management of violence.

    Over the last 5 years the rate of assaults has fallen by 13%.

    Risk of assault is distributed unevenly around the prison estate. Gender, age and other factors such as the size and composition of the prison population, can affect the number assault incidents that occur in a particular establishment. Therefore, careful interpretation is needed of the incident and rates tables at a prison level.

    The number of (a) assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners in each prison has been placed in the library.

    Due to the low number of serious assaults on prison staff at prison level, the information requested on rates (b) cannot be provided in order to protect the confidentiality of those staff involved.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-18.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation trust employees who left their jobs received higher than contractual payments since 1 January 2014.

    Jeremy Wright

    Prior to 1 June, probation staff in England & Wales were employed by the 35 probation trusts. Employment data of the kind requested were held by the individual probations trusts. They were not collected centrally and it would not be possible to obtain the information without incurring disproportionate cost.