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Written questions by Lowe.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Rupert Lowe this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.

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15 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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Pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12201 on Stalking: Convictions, whether her Department collects data on foreign national offenders found guilty of stalking involving fear of violence.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for stalking offences involving fear of violence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023.However, this does not include an offenders’ nationality. This informa...

13 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

If she will make an estimate of the number of people in prison for offences related to the use of social media broken down by offence.

Reply

Information as to whether social media was used (at any point) in the commission of an offence is not centrally recorded – therefore the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

12 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many people have been sentenced for (a) murder, (b) rape and (c) other sex offences in each year for the previous ten years, broken down by primary language.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants sentenced for murder, rape, and other sex offences in the Outcomes by Offence data tool. The latest publication (2023 data) is available from the Outcomes by Offence data tool publi...

11 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12200 on Reoffenders: Foreign Nationals, if she will break down that data by crime category.

Reply

Data on the reoffending rate of foreign national offenders, broken down by the crime category of the index offence, can be found in the attached table.We refer all foreign national offenders in receipt of custodial sentences to the Home Office. Those sent...

8 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many individuals per (a) nationality and (b) ethnicity were convicted of grooming offences since 2004.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of offenders convicted, which can be filtered to specific offences and broken down by defendant ethnicity. This can be obtained in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Cr...

1 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many new prison places are scheduled to be built in the next 12 months.

Reply

This Government is committed to continuing the prison build programmes, which include the construction of four further new prisons, as well as the expansion and refurbishment of the existing estate.I can confirm that HMP Millsike will deliver c.1,500 plac...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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How many and what proportion of prison cells were not in use due to (a) disrepair and (b) poor estate conditions in October 2024.

Reply

This Government has inherited a prison system in crisis, with infrastructure crumbling, dangerous jails and our hardworking staff under immense pressure. We have taken difficult, but necessary action to urgently reduce capacity pressures and save prisons ...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

What the reoffending rate of foreign national offenders was in each of the last five years.

Reply

The requested data on the reoffending rate of foreign national offenders can be found in the attached table. The proven reoffending rate for all adult offenders released from custody or starting a court order, in the April 21 to March 22 annual cohort, wa...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

If she will make an estimate of the average time taken for theft cases to be processed through the courts in each year since 2019.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the average duration for various stages of the criminal justice system for defendants by offence group, including theft, from 2014 to 2023 (latest available) in the ‘End-to-end timeliness tool’ as part of C...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9762 on Offenders: Foreign Nationals, if her Department will commit to publishing a breakdown of foreign national offenders by nationality for (a) rape, (b) m

Reply

The Department currently has no plans to publish a breakdown of foreign national offenders by nationality and detailed offence type (which would include the requested information for rape, other sexual offences, murder and drug trafficking). However, we k...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many foreign criminals were granted temporary release in each of the last five years.

Reply

The Department currently has no plans to publish a breakdown of foreign national offenders by nationality and detailed offence type (which would include the requested information for rape, other sexual offences, murder and drug trafficking). However, we k...

31 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

For a breakdown by nationality of how many people of what nationality were found guilty of stalking involving fear of violence in each of the last five years.

Reply

The Department currently has no plans to publish a breakdown of foreign national offenders by nationality and detailed offence type (which would include the requested information for rape, other sexual offences, murder and drug trafficking). However, we k...

30 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many shoplifting convictions there were by the nationality of the offender in Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last five years.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for shoplifting offences by Police Force Area in each of the last five years in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statis...

25 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have been rearrested since September 2024.

Reply

Reoffending rates are published regularly on an annual and quarterly basis. The most recent rates are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics.Prisoners released on SDS40 will be subject to l...

24 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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How much was spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation costs in (i) all courts and (ii) Great Yarmouth Magistrates court in each of the last five years.

Reply

This question has been interpreted to mean spend for all language services, both translation and interpretation provided in a court setting, and for printed materials available in HMCTS buildings.Information is not held disaggregated as (a) translation an...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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How many foreign nationals were convicted of offences in each of the last five years; and if she will provide a breakdown of those offences by class of crime.

Reply

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for offences in each of the last five years in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023.However, it is not possible to identify an offender’s nationality from the ...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

What the (a) nationality and (b) class of crime is of foreign national offenders (i) in prison and (ii) deported this year.

Reply

There were 10,435 foreign national prisoners held in custody on 30 June 2024; representing 12% of the total prison population. We do not hold annual running cost data for foreign national prisoners. We publish costs per prison place via Prison and Probati...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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What the annual cost is of foreign national prisoners in each of the last three years; and how many foreign national prisoners there are.

Reply

There were 10,435 foreign national prisoners held in custody on 30 June 2024; representing 12% of the total prison population. We do not hold annual running cost data for foreign national prisoners. We publish costs per prison place via Prison and Probati...

10 Sept 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job

Reply

The Ministry of Justice does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department’s annual report and accounts.

10 Sept 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many foreign-born criminals (a) are in prisons and (b) were released under the revised terms of the early release scheme in Norfolk since 10 September 2024.

Reply

Information on the number of Foreign Nationals in prisons can be found in Table 1_Q_12 here: Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods. We are unable to provide the requested prisone...

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