Robert Jenrick MP: written questions
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Written questions
European Convention on Human RightsMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution in response to a question from the Rt hon. Member for Newark on 3 June 2025, Official Report, col 161, if she will write to the Council of Europe in support of the open let
Answer: The UK participates in regular engagement with the Council of Europe and its member States – including on the important issues raised in this letter.
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Press ConferencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the interim Permanent Secretary spoke at the televised Ministerial press conference on prisons of 14 May 2025.
Answer: The interim Permanent Secretary attended the televised press conference on 14 May to provide a factual update on prison capacity.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released on licence were not tagged in accordance with their licence conditions in the last 12 months for which data is available; and what proportion of that total were due to (a) equipment sh
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by manually going through each individual’s record on the Electronic Monitoring (EM) supplier’s and probation service’s systems where this detail is recorded.
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP Frankland: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to appoint a chair to conduct the independent review of the attack on prison officers at HMP Frankland on 12 April 2025; and when the review will conclude.
Answer: On Thursday 15 May, we announced the appointment of Jonathan Hall KC as the reviewer of the HMP Frankland Independent Review. The Lord Chancellor has asked for the review to report back promptly, and to leave no stone unturned so we can prevent such an in...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Dispute ResolutionMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has received reports on the operation of informal (a) adjudication mechanisms and (b) dispute resolution systems within prisons based on (i) Sharia and (ii) other (A) religious and (B) ideo
Answer: Extremist gang activity is not tolerated in prisons. Staff act swiftly to clamp down on intimidating or threatening behaviour regardless of cultural or religious sensitivities. Anyone who threatens assaults or attempts to control others faces tough sancti...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: GangsMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has received (a) intelligence and (b) operational reports referencing a group known as the Brotherhood; and whether such reports describe that group as exercising (i) influence and (ii) con
Answer: Extremist gang activity is not tolerated in prisons. Staff act swiftly to clamp down on intimidating or threatening behaviour regardless of cultural or religious sensitivities. Anyone who threatens assaults or attempts to control others faces tough sancti...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: DisciplineMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has received reports of (a) instances where inmates have been physically punished for failing to comply with informal interpretations of Sharia law and (b) other forms of (i) coercive viol
Answer: Extremist gang activity is not tolerated in prisons. Staff act swiftly to clamp down on intimidating or threatening behaviour regardless of cultural or religious sensitivities. Anyone who threatens assaults or attempts to control others faces tough sancti...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Protective ClothingMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to publish the outcome of her Department's review into whether protective body armour should be made available to frontline prison staff.
Answer: HM Prison & Probation Service has commissioned an internal review to establish whether it is necessary for our brave and hard-working prison officers to wear Protective Body Armour either routinely or when working in high-risk environments within the ...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has issued to prison governors a consolidated list of extremist material banned in prisons.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has recently assessed the (a) scale and (b) nature of the threat from (i) Islamist and (ii) far-right prisoners radicalising other inmates.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RadicalismMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact for her policies of the judgement in R (De Silva) v Secretary of State for Justice [2025] EWHC 128 (Admin) on the ability of prison governors to isolate (a
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many a) Separation Centres and b) segregation wings in the prison estate are currently in use; and what is their total available capacity.
Answer: There are three separation centres, all within the Long-Term High Security Estate, with a total capacity of 28 prisoner places. Two are currently operational, and the third is available for use when required.109 segregation wings or units in the prison es...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Accommodation: FacilitiesMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to suspend the use of kitchen facilities in Separation Centres within prisons.
Answer: Access to kitchen facilities in Separation Centres and Close Supervision Centres was immediately suspended following the horrific attack at HMP Frankland on 12 April. A rapid review of access to, and use of, self-cook areas across the prison estate, inclu...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Sentencing Council's guidance entitled Imposition of community and custodial sentences - Effective from 1 April 2025, whether her Department has made an (a) estimate of the (i) additional nu
Answer: Where a court is considering whether an offender should receive a sentence of immediate custody, a pre-sentence report must be obtained and considered before forming an opinion unless, in the circumstances of the case, the court considers that it is unnec...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordJudiciaryMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to set a target date to achieve a representative (a) judiciary and (b) magistracy.
Answer: The Government is strongly committed to achieving a judiciary which better represents the diversity of the population. This comprises of judges, non-legal members and magistrates.We continue to work closely with the judiciary, the Judicial Appointments Co...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP Long Lartin: Domestic VisitsMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has visited HMP Long Lartin since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Lord Chancellor has been closely involved in the response to the urgent notifications we have received. Each is a reminder of the state of crisis that the last Government left behind in our prisons.The Prisons Minister will be visiting HMP Long Lartin...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSolicitors: MisrepresentationAttorney GeneralTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33476More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many people are prosecuted under s21 of the Solicitors Act 1974 each year.
Answer: The Crown Prosecution Service holds data on the number of prosecutions where a charge has been authorised and reached a first hearing in the magistrates’ courts for specific offences.The below table provides details of the number of offences charged under...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33475More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what meetings (a) he and (b) his Ministers have had with the (i) Albanian, (ii) Polish, (iii) Romanian, (iv) Irish and (v) Jamaican Government to discuss increasing the numbe
Answer: Increasing the numbers of foreign national offender returns from our prisons is a priority for this government. We are working with international partners to achieve this.In the last six months, the Foreign Secretary discussed criminal justice cooperation...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: RepatriationMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings (a) she and (b) her Ministers have had with the (i) Albanian, (ii) Polish, (iii) Romanian, (iv) Irish and (v) Jamaican Government to discuss increasing the number of foreign national offenders retur
Answer: Increasing the numbers of foreign national offender returns from our prisons is a priority for this Government. We are working with international partners to achieve this. In the last six months, Ministers from the Ministry of Justice have met with Polish...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any people released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme have reported faults with their tags since September 2024.
Answer: The longest period between receipt of an electronic monitoring requirement order by the Electronic Monitoring provider and installation for an offender with a revised SDS40 release date was 53 days for releases in tranche one. Tranche two’s performance wa...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33472More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, what the longest period of time was that a person released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) r
Answer: The longest period between receipt of an electronic monitoring requirement order by the Electronic Monitoring provider and installation for an offender with a revised SDS40 release date was 53 days for releases in tranche one. Tranche two’s performance wa...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, how many SDS40 releases did not have a prison tag in (a) Tranche one and (b) Tranche two.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice published transparent data on Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 SDS40 releases on 7 November 2024. Whilst some of these releases would have had a tag as a licence condition, the data the Department holds on electronic monitoring does not del...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for ending the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme.
Answer: This Government has committed to reviewing the scheme after 18 months of implementation.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSexual Offences: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) sentenced for a sex offence in their absence in the last 10 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions and sentences for sexual and grooming related offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice St...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) sentenced for grooming gang-related offences in their absence in the last 10 years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions and sentences for sexual and grooming related offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice St...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
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