The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Prison Northumberland was (a) contributing staff to and (b) receiving staff as part of the detached duty programme 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.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when HM Prison High Down has had to (a) close wings, (b) close workshops and (c) restrict family visits due to staff shortages since September 2013.
Jeremy Wright
The information regarding when HM Prison Highdown has had to (a) close wings due to staffing shortages is not recorded. The occasions that workshops have closed since September 2013 (b) are listed below. Family visits (c) have not been restricted due to staffing shortages during this period.
There are appropriate levels of staffing at the prison at all times and prisoners who engage in work and education are out of the cells for between 8 and 10 hours a day. For those that do not engage, they are still out of their cell for a minimum of 4 hours a day. In the rare occurrence that a wing should need to close, prisoners still spend at least four hours out of their cells.
(b) HMP Prison Highdown has had to close workshops on the following occasions since September 2013:
October 2013
14th and 22nd
November 2013
1st (workshop 6 only)
20th
December 2013
9th (workshop 6 only)
16th (am)
January 2014
6th
16th (pm, workshops 5 & 6)
20th (workshops 4, 5 & 6)
21st
29th
31st (am)
February 2014
18th (workshop 5 & 6)
March 2014
No closures
April 2013
19th (am)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-05-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to how many immigration appeal hearings the Home Office failed to send a presenting officer in each of the last four years.
James Brokenshire
I will write to the Rt Hon. Member.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on the Public Defence Service in each month of 2014.
Mr Shailesh Vara
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
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Total Monthly Expenditure |
£174,484 |
£229,646 |
£362,060 |
£268,849 |
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The rise in cost over the periods January to April is due to the recruitment of advocates in readiness for the PDS Advocacy service, and the inclusion of accruals in March for costs relating to IT enhancements and facilities management.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-disclosure or compromise agreements have been included in the departure packages of former employees of probation trusts since 1 January 2014.
Jeremy Wright
There have been no non-disclosure or compromise agreements included as part of the departure packages of the Trust Chief Executives who have taken early retirement. The terms of departure for other former Trust staff were agreed through their own local arrangements.
The comments made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on 30 October 2022.
Since I was elected Mayor, around 13,500 people have been helped off our capital’s streets with eight in ten staying off the streets for good. Our outreach workers, charity teams, healthcare professionals and council staff are not only vital partners in this work but unsung heroes and deserve our heartfelt gratitude.
Despite this progress, extraordinary financial pressures are putting the poorest Londoners at growing risk of homelessness with the number of people sleeping rough already up by a fifth year on year. We continue to see a revolving door of people ending up homeless as a result of this escalating cost of living crisis.
This cannot be allowed to continue, this new Government must act now to prevent the circumstances that lead to people sleeping rough before thousands more are forced to face a winter on the streets.
The comments made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on Twitter on 20 October 2022.
The UK used to be a beacon of strength and stability across the globe.
The Tories have turned us into a laughing stock and diminished our country in the eyes of the world.
We need a general election now.
The comments made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on Twitter on 20 October 2022.
General election, now.
Our city and country has never needed a Labour government more.
The statement made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on 17 October 2022.
When I asked the Met to establish this independent review a year ago following a series of shocking scandals involving serving police officers, I was concerned that a serious cultural problem had developed within the Met which was allowing racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour to be downplayed or left unchallenged. The interim findings of this review not only confirm my concerns, but reveal a situation even worse than feared.
It’s clear the Met’s misconduct system is simply not fit for purpose. I now expect nothing less than every single recommendation of this review to be implemented in full, and quickly. All misconduct allegations must be acted upon, cases must be resolved much faster and the disproportionality in the way allegations are dealt with must be eliminated. The majority of those serving in the Met will be appalled by these latest findings and the decent officers who want to speak out – who have clearly been let down for far too long – must be properly supported.
As Mayor, I’ve ensured the Met is now set on a path of far-reaching systematic and cultural reform, with the appointment of a new Commissioner who acknowledges the scale of the problems within the Met. I want to assure Londoners that I will continue to hold the Met to account as I support Sir Mark in taking urgent action to reform the culture and systems of the Met and to root out all police officers found to be responsible for sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, bullying or harassment.
The comments made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on 17 October 2022.
With the markets in turmoil, high inflation and interest rates soaring, the Chancellor had no choice but to take immediate action to prevent even more economic chaos. But so much damage has already been done, with Londoners and people up and down the country paying higher mortgage and borrowing costs as a direct result of the Government’s failed approach.
The Government is also still refusing to take the basic steps required to help those who need the most support during the worst cost-of-living crisis we have seen in decades. I will continue to call on Ministers to provide free school meals to all primary school children, to uplift Universal Credit by inflation and to ensure that the most vulnerable receive a basic amount of free energy this winter. They should also grant City Hall the power to freeze private rents in London, which would save people £3,000 over two years.
The Chancellor has massively scaled back the Government’s energy bill support scheme. He should now do what should have been done all along – introduce a windfall tax on energy producers to help foot the bill.
The Chancellor was also wrong to scrap the reintroduction of tax free shopping for tourists. This is something I have repeatedly called for to help boost sales and growth and to make London and the UK a more attractive place for international tourists to visit, bringing in far more money to the Treasury than it costs.