Nick Timothy MP: written questions
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Written questions
ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were charged with more than (a) 25, (b) 50, (c) 100, (d) 150 and (e) 200 shoplifting offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on charging decisions.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordProsecutions: Young PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 18 were charged with more than (a) 50 offences, (b) 100 offences, (c) 150 offences and (d) 200 offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on charging decisions.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordYoung Offenders: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged under 18 years old were convicted of more than (a) 50 offences, (b) 100 offences, (c) 150 offences and (d) 200 offences in the past 2 years.
Answer: Zero.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: ContraceptivesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times female prisoners have been provided with an emergency contraceptive pill in the past two years.
Answer: Although NHS England does not hold this information either nationally or regionally, access to emergency oral hormonal contraception is available at all female prisons; and healthcare professionals should provide information and advice about the full rang...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were physically assaulted by other prisoners in the past three years.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Information on prisoner-on-prisoner assaults is published in the Ministry of Justice’s Safety in Custody statistics and can be found here: Safety in custody: quarterly update to Dec...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the total amount spent on (a) compensation payments and (b) other payments to prison officers due to injury caused by assault by a prisoner in the last two financial years.
Answer: Total payment to staff employed by HM Prison Service in relation to injuries resulting from assault by a prisoner was £2,259,396 in 2024-25 and £1,997,248 in 2025-26. It is not possible to disaggregate these totals to show payments to prisoner officer gra...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Unmanned Air SystemsMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drones were sighted over prisons in England and Wales between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many drones were recovered by prisons between July 2024 and April 2026.
Answer: We publish the number of drone incidents in England and Wales in the HMPPS Annual Digest, please see table 6_1 in the Finds tables. The latest issue covers the 12-month period to March 2025, with a time series of drone incidents starting from the 12-month...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers who were assaulted by prisoners between July 2024 and April 2026 were sent to hospital.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were physically assaulted by prisoners in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026.
Answer: The requested information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Information on assaults on staff in prisons in England and Wales is published quarterly through the Ministry of Justice’s Safety in Custody statistics. The latest publication, cover...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: DisciplineMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison rules were broken in prisons in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many individual prisoners broke (a) over 50 and (b) at least one rule in that time.
Answer: Where it is discovered that a prisoner has broken the prison rules, prison staff can respond in several ways including by placing a prisoner on report for an adjudication, issuing an incentive level warning or undertaking an incentive review where a priso...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Governors: Flexible Working and Remote WorkingMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison governors and deputy prison governors prison currently work (a) any proportion of their contracted hours from home and (b) on compressed hours broken down by (i) the prison and (ii) the security c
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrison Governors: Flexible Working and Remote WorkingMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3478More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has a formal policy permitting operational prison governors to (a) work from home and (b) on compressed hours.
Answer: His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), as an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Justice, operates in line with the Department’s Flexible Working Policy. Under this policy, all employees have a statutory right to request flexible working, and...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the total cost of legal aid provided to prisoners bringing action against (a) other prisoners and (b) prison officers in each year since 2024.
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 28 May 2026
Original Parliament recordNew Towns: East of EnglandTreasuryTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129225More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings (a) she, (b) Ministers, (c) special advisers and (d) officials in her Department have had with the organisers of the Forest City 1 campaign.
Answer: Treasury Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations on departmental business are pub...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: SuffolkMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on whether Suffolk Police are to be given additional (a) officers, (b) funding and (c) logistical support when the expansion of HMP Highpoint is completed.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHM Inspectorate of Prisons: Public AppointmentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to publish an advertisement for the position of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons once it becomes vacant in October 2026.
Answer: Following consultation with the Justice Select Committee (JSC) about campaign plans to recruit to this position, we plan to advertise the role shortly. We will update the JSC on the timetable in due course.
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department taking to help prevent prisoners from avoiding their Release on Temporary Licence.
Answer: Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) is a key part of preparing individuals for safe resettlement into the community. The Ministry of Justice takes the risk of prisoners failing to return from ROTL extremely seriously. I have assumed that it is this risk t...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordRadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals were assessed or monitored by the Joint Extremism Unit in each calendar year from 2017 to 2025 inclusive, broken down by the extremism or risk classification category used internally by the U
Answer: Data on the number of people serving custodial sentences for terrorist offences are published by the Home Office as part of its quarterly statistical bulletin Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, out...
Answered 23 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordLife Imprisonment: Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with at least one life sentence have been granted (a) supervised, and (b) unsupervised Release on Temporary Licence in each year since 2020, broken down by offence.
Answer: Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) for prisoners serving life sentences is subject to particularly stringent risk assessment and senior decision making, and is granted only in limited circumstances, with public protection as the paramount consideration.D...
Answered 23 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordLife Imprisonment: Open PrisonsMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with at least one life sentence have been transferred to open prison conditions in each year since 2020, broken down by offence.
Answer: To answer the question would incur disproportionate cost as it would require a search of individual prisoner records. Centrally-collated data on prisoner transfers cover transfers between a predominant function closed prison and a predominant function ope...
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: FoodMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when were prisons required to provide the option of a (a) vegan dish, (b) vegetarian dish, and (c) Halal dish for their lunch and evening meal menus.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the cost of specific food items, including meat, or on expenditure associated with multi -choice or pre-selected menus. Prison expenditure on food is recorded at an aggregate level in management accounts as tota...
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: FoodMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2026 to Question 123531 on Prisons: Meat, what sum his Department spent on providing multi-choice, pre-select menus for (a) lunchtime and (b) evening meals in prisons in each yea
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the cost of specific food items, including meat, or on expenditure associated with multi -choice or pre-selected menus. Prison expenditure on food is recorded at an aggregate level in management accounts as tota...
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: MeatMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127606More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2026 to Question 123531 on Prisons: Meat, what the annual cost of meat served in prisons has been in each year since 2020, broken down by individual prison.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the cost of specific food items, including meat, or on expenditure associated with multi -choice or pre-selected menus. Prison expenditure on food is recorded at an aggregate level in management accounts as tota...
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordAviation: Job CreationDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to encourage careers in aviation.
Answer: The Department for Transport encourages careers in the aviation industry through its Generation Aviation programme. The Reach for the Sky Challenge Fund, a part of the Generation Aviation programme, administered by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), fund...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether local police forces will be given additional (a) officers, (b) funding, and (c) logistical support when (i) a new prison opens and (ii) a new prison expansion is completed in their area.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice works closely with other government departments and local services, including emergency services, throughout all phases of new prison builds and expansions.Decisions regarding the allocation of police resources is a matter for Chie...
Answered 23 Apr 2026
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