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European Arrest Warrant — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Chair of the Select Committee. That is, of course, why we have taken through the Data Protection Bill. We have extradition relations—very vigorous ones—with countries all around the world, and we see no reason why we would not continue to do so with our EU friends and allies.
European Arrest Warrant — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): No, because we are not in the position of Iceland. We start from the position of the European arrest warrant, with strong, intensive co-operation on extradition, and we will make sure we continue that operationally for many years to come.
European Arrest Warrant — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Let us also not forget the advice of the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, who made it clear in his evidence to the independent review of extradition that there were problems with the European arrest warrant. We have legislated for extra safeguards. We are ending the jurisdiction of the European Court, but there has been no suggestion that we are dispensing altogether with vital EU extradition—except, perhaps, as a figment of some of the furtive Liberal Democrats’ imaginations.
European Arrest Warrant — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, but I gently suggest that he read the position paper on the future partnership, which was published in September, because it deals directly with the question he has just asked and makes it clear that we do want to continue vital extradition relations with our EU partners.
Leaving the EU: Human Rights — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Mark Andrew Pritchard (Conservative, Centre-right): When the United Kingdom leaves the European Union—[Interruption.] I speak as a remainer. When that happens, does the Minister agree that the Council of Europe will become an increasingly important interlocutor between this country and the European Union? Will he reiterate this Government’s commitment to staying in the European Court of Human Rights?
Leaving the EU: Human Rights — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Phillip James Lee (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, when we leave the European Union, it is important that Britain maintains a strong role in international affairs in terms of its lead on human rights. I remind the House that the original convention on human rights was written by two Britons.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): The reoffending rate for community sentences has been coming down since 2005. The latest figures show that 34% of adults given a community order or a suspended sentence order go on to reoffend. This evidence shows that community sentences are more effective at reducing reoffending than short-term prison sentences are.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Michael Alex Burghart (Conservative, Centre-right): I very much welcome the figures that were published on Thursday showing that recidivism was coming down for people on community sentences. However, about a third of people on community sentences do still reoffend, so will the Secretary of State consider the "swift and certain" programmes in the United States that have had considerable effect in reducing recidivism?
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): I am certainly keen to learn from best practice not just in the United States but in other jurisdictions around the world. What was striking about some of last week’s figures was that they showed that offenders who underwent drug or alcohol treatment in this country showed a 33% reduction in the number of offences they committed in the following two years. That is a lesson we can learn from.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Philip Thomas Hollobone (Conservative, Centre-right): But is it not the case that according to the Ministry of Justice’s own figures, there is a direct correlation between the length of a prison sentence and the likelihood of an offender reoffending? In other words, the longer that somebody spends in prison, the less likely it is that they are going to reoffend.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): It is true that short-term sentences appear to have the least effect in reduced reoffending, but the comparison with them is with alternative community sentences, which are available for that similar type of crime. Those community sentences work best when they link up with services such as drug and alcohol treatment programmes sometimes provided by other authorities in the community.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course, as the hon. Gentleman knows, the company responsible has denied some of the claims that were made in the "Panorama" programme. None the less, it is quite clear that missed appointments are a serious matter. We expect the London CRC, like other CRCs, to take appropriate action. I believe that in the independent inspectorate of probation we have precisely the kind of independent body that he has called for. It is currently looking again at London and we look forward to its next report.
Community Sentences: Reoffending — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the hon. Gentleman is referring to a document that was produced some years ago. It is important now that in addressing the underperformance of some areas of the probation service, we act on the recommendations from the independent probation inspectorate and seek, through the contractual mechanism, to drive up standards to where the public would expect them to be.
Leaving the EU: Legal Jurisdictions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): We recognise the distinct legal systems across the UK. We engage with our counterparts in the devolved Administrations to prepare the ground for Brexit, in terms both of achieving a smooth transition on things such as civil and judicial co-operation and of seizing the global opportunities for the UK legal sector, which contributed around £25 billion to the UK economy last year.
Leaving the EU: Legal Jurisdictions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): There is a two-part answer to that. First, in relation to the negotiations with our EU partners, we are very focused on making sure that the current co-operation continues as well and as optimally as possible. Secondly, in relation to the legal position, the EU withdrawal position will make sure that there is legal certainty for citizens across the UK.
Leaving the EU: Legal Jurisdictions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: International Affairs
Questions: The Government’s “Legal Services are GREAT” campaign, which was launched in Singapore earlier this month, focuses solely on the global promotion of the English legal system; it contains no mention of Scotland or Northern Ireland. Will the Minister see that that is rectified prior to the campaign’s domestic launch later this year?
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not know about the specific drafting in the papers, but there was considerable dialogue with all the devolved Administrations on the substance underpinning the position papers and the negotiating position that the UK has taken.
Leaving the EU: Legal Jurisdictions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: The Government’s “Legal Services are GREAT” campaign, which was launched in Singapore earlier this month, focuses solely on the global promotion of the English legal system; it contains no mention of Scotland or Northern Ireland. Will the Minister see that that is rectified prior to the campaign’s domestic launch later this year?
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. and learned Lady, but she has not actually pointed to one aspect, one paragraph or one point in the position paper that she thinks we have got wrong. We certainly accept, recognise and, indeed, embrace the huge contribution that the Scottish justice and legal systems make. In relation to the justice and home affairs strand of the negotiations, we will of course bear in mind very closely the different contours across the whole UK.
Farmer Review — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Maria Colette Caulfield (Conservative, Centre-right): Figures from the Farmer review show that inmates who receive regular family visits are 39% less likely to reoffend. Will the Minister outline what steps the Government are taking to enable more family visits to happen in our prisons?
Farmer Review — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Reoffending rates among people who have family contact are a lot lower than those for other offenders. We are working to implement all of Lord Farmer’s review over time. I will be meeting her and a number of colleagues to discuss our progress on this later.
Farmer Review — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. Certainly, for a lot of prisoners—whether for their mental wellbeing and issues to do with self-harm, but also violence—family contact can make a difference. There are specific issues relating to HMP Nottingham, and I am willing to write to him about those.
Farmer Review — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Education
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (Conservative, Centre-right): In Parc Prison outside Bridgend in south Wales, parent teacher evenings take place in the prison so fathers can demonstrate their ongoing responsibility to their children’s education. Will the Minister tell us if any other prisons are going to follow the excellent example set by Parc?
Farmer Review — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The former Prisons Minister makes an excellent point about good practice at Parc Prison. As he is aware, there is good practice dotted around the prison estate. We have Storybook Dads and Mums in some prisons and Our Voice in other prisons. We want to see good practice spread across the entire estate. To enable us to do that, we are devolving budgets to prison governors, and we will also hold them to account when we pilot new family and significant relationship performance measures as of next year.
Review of Legal Aid Reforms — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): Yesterday, we laid a written ministerial statement before the House setting out the details of the review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, and publishing the post-legislative memorandum, which discharges the promise made by previous Ministers to this House. I expect the review to be completed by the summer of 2018.
Review of Legal Aid Reforms — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I thought the hon. Gentleman might at least welcome the fact that we laid out the terms of the review yesterday. I am not sure whether he has had a chance to study the post-legislative memorandum. Let us be clear about one thing: last year, we spent £1.6 billion on legal aid in England and Wales, which is a quarter of the Ministry of Justice’s budget. International comparisons are not exact, but according to the Council of Europe’s review last year, the UK spent more per capita than any other Council of Europe member.
Review of Legal Aid Reforms — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern if the court estate is situated in his constituency, but we have a £1 billion court reform programme, which is investing in updating, modernising and introducing technology. As a result, we will actually deliver more sensitive justice for victims and witnesses, but also a better bang for the taxpayer’s buck.
Review of Legal Aid Reforms — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: Wales has seen one of the largest drops in legal aid providers, at 29%, particularly with regard to housing. Will the Government’s belated review of their deep cuts in legal aid look specifically at the impact of this?
Dominic Rennie Raab (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is right that it is vital to ensure that legal aid is available to victims in circumstances of domestic violence. Of course, it was granted in more than 12,000 cases last year. We have reviewed the evidence requirements again and are committed to making it easier for victims to access legal aid. I will announce the details shortly.
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): We have given governors greater freedom over their prison’s daily routine and timetable, staffing and family services. We intend to give governors control of areas such as education and training provision. As other current contracts expire, I will look for opportunities to devolve further powers.
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Fiona Claire Bruce (Conservative, Centre-right): There were 21 recommendations in the Farmer review and Ministers have made the welcome commitment to implement them all. What further support and incentives are being given to prison governors, as they have increased autonomy within their prisons, to ensure that that implementation happens on the ground?
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): The budgets have already been devolved to governors, enabling them to commission family services that are tailored to the specific needs of their prisoners. I have seen examples of that when visiting HMP Parc and HMP Bronzefield. Governors will be supported in future by new family services guidance, which will incorporate elements of Lord Farmer’s report, in the hope that they will all develop best practice.
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will welcome the fact that we are about halfway towards recruiting the additional 2,500 prison officers that my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss), announced about a year ago. If he has particular concerns about a specific prison, I am sure that my hon. Friend the Prisons Minister will be happy to discuss them with him.
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (Conservative, Centre-right): I warmly welcome the commitment of the Secretary of State and the Prisons Minister to implementing the Farmer review in full. They have acknowledged the important link between family ties and rehabilitation. Now that prison governors are being further empowered, what more can be done to ensure that that is rolled out across the whole prison estate?
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): One thing that has struck me since being appointed to this role in the Government is that we need to get better at ensuring that the best, most successful practices in prisons are disseminated rapidly and widely. One means of doing that is to ensure that there is additional support for individual prison governors at regional level, so that they have experienced mentors available to them—particularly for new governors. I hope that that shift will help deliver the change that my hon. Friend seeks.
Prison Governors — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
David Roy Lidington (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce), as existing contracts expire, we shall seek new opportunities to devolve powers to governors and to clusters of prisons. Along with Prison Service headquarters, they will then have to strike the appropriate balance between the local provisioning of services and the need to secure the best value for taxpayers’ money.
Cammell Laird Strikers — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Questions: Whether the Government plan to respond to the findings of the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions in December 2014 on the treatment of Cammell Laird strikers in 1984.
Phillip James Lee (Conservative, Centre-right): The Ministry of Justice does not think it holds any documents with regard to this case. I think that the hon. Gentleman is referring to a petition brought by Edward Marnell. I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman wrote to me to set out the issues and I will arrange for my officials to have a meeting with him.
Drones: Prisons — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Drones are a threat but also an opportunity for our prisons. Where they are a threat, we are absolutely determined to tackle the organised crime groups who use them. In terms of the opportunities, the prison service is investing in drones to proactively manage large-scale incidents as our eyes and ears to improve our intelligence and allow us to respond more effectively and swiftly.
Drones: Prisons — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Technology
Simon James Hoare (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend will know that technology moves ever faster, day by day. Can he assure me that HMP Guys Marsh in my constituency will have access to the relevant funds to have the technologies in place to combat the use of drones and mobile telephones?
Drones: Prisons — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely. Guys Marsh will benefit from the £2 million pot being used to invest in mobile phone detection technology. An additional £3 million is being invested in a national intelligence team to help to tackle serious and organised crime. This will allow us to deal with serious and organised crime in our prisons and in our communities. We will be working with the Home Office on this project to improve prison security and social reform.
Drones: Prisons — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely. As I said, we have an intelligence unit dealing with organised crime in our prisons in a very concerted way across the estate. We are doing that alongside investing in anti-drone and mobile phone detection technology. Bringing this together will mean that we are able to deal with the threat that drones pose across the prison estate and, as I said to my hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare), in the community. Organised crime is not just in the prison estate, but often in the community.
Drones: Prisons — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): It is difficult to tell exactly what proportion was brought in by drones. We do not know how many drones are successful; we know only those that are unsuccessful. We know that drones are a very serious and emerging threat because of the load they can carry into our prisons. Dealing with drugs in prisons is not just about our counter-drone strategy, but the overall illicit economy in prisons as a whole: mobile phones, which help to facilitate it; cracking down on corruption, where it exists, in the supply chain; and working with law enforcement. There is no single way to deal with it; we are going to do all those things across the piece to crack down.
Prison Overcrowding — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): I have seen a number of incidents in prisons. Every incident in any prison has its own unique situation, which is why we always investigate incidents in prisons very thoroughly. Obviously, we hold some of the most challenging individuals in society in our prisons, so incidents do sometimes occur. Our job is to minimise the risk and manage those incidents when they happen.
Prison Overcrowding — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Obviously, I take a keen interest in the hon. Gentleman’s local prison, where the staff complement is exactly as it should be. It is one of the 10 pathfinder prisons in which we are implementing the new offender management model. I discussed the staffing situation there with the new national chair of the Prison Officers Association, and he commended the fact that staff numbers there are at full strength, but that does not mean that there is not more to do across the estate. We are halfway to our target of 2,500, and I am confident that we will achieve that.
Prison Overcrowding — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten that we have a duty to house those who are sentenced by the courts. The prison population in England and Wales is 86,000; we have a duty to provide accommodation for them to serve their sentence in. We still have a commitment to investing £1.3 billion in the prison estate to create 10,000 additional prison places during this Parliament.
Prison Overcrowding — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Justice for those going through the system has to be swift. May I correct an assumption in the question? The reason why the prison population has increased in England and Wales is that more people convicted of sex-related offences are serving longer sentences. Given our duty to protect the public, it is right that when these people are convicted by the courts, they serve their time. The hon. Lady mentioned a case in her constituency and what she perceives to be the injustice there, but I would not generalise from that case and say that that is why there is overcrowding in our prisons.
Young Offender Institutions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Education
Questions: What recent steps he has taken in response to the finding of the chief inspector of prisons that no young offender institution inspected in the last year was safe to hold juveniles.
Phillip James Lee (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is fully aware that the part of the world that he used to represent as a Mayor is quite ahead in dealing with individuals more holistically. Staffing is an issue. We have brought forward a youth custody officer role, which will start in 2018, and we are bringing forward another 80 people for a course to improve the type of care that those individuals can offer. We are under no illusions about the challenges. The guidelines on how we are procuring secure schools and their staffing arrangements will be announced in the new year.
Child Abuse: Prosecutions — House of Commons, 2017-10-31
Topic: Law and Crime
Phillip James Lee (Conservative, Centre-right): We are taking action across the Government to bring about a step change in the response to the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, including the commencement of the roll-out of recorded pre-trial cross-examination for vulnerable witnesses in Crown courts in January 2017. Further roll-out for vulnerable witnesses, which includes child victims of sexual abuse, will continue in the autumn.