Lord Beecham

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will institute a review of the practice of estate agents requiring pre-contract deposits in the process of purchasing homes.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have consulted, or had representations from, the National Police Chiefs’ Council on the merits of updating the ethnicity data collection used in the youth justice system to include the 2011 Census ethnic group ...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will consider targeted education and vocational skills interventions for Gypsy, Traveller and Roma children in youth custody in the light of the Traveller Movement’s finding in Overlooked and Overrepresented: G...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of cases in which the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS's) decisions not to initiate prosecutions in cases of domestic violence have been successfully challenged, whether they will commission an inquiry into th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether their planned recruitment of prison staff includes staff for private prisons as well as public sector prisons; and if so, how many will be recruited for each sector.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the recommendations by the Traveller Movement in its report Overlooked and Overrepresented: Gypsy, Traveller and Roma children in the youth justice system, to address the poorer outcomes fo...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration has been given to establishing and promoting Gypsy, Traveller and Roma groups in Secure Training Centres and Young Offenders Institutions, based on successful models seen in the secure adult estate.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 31 January (HL4983), what is meant by the statement that the costs to DCLG "were met through existing departmental resource".

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to monitor the performance of contractors providing accommodation for asylum seekers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prison officers they plan to recruit for the new HM Prison Wrexham; and whether this number is included in their estimate of 8000 officers to be recruited by 2018.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Goldie on 22 November (HL Deb, col 1838) concerning the central unit which is being set up to assess indeterminate sentences, what its remit will be, how many full-time equivalent staff wi...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the statement by Lord Keen of Elie on 19 December (HL Deb, cols 1530–1540) on the serious disturbance at HM Prison Birmingham, whether they had been warned two months previously of the risk of a riot, and if so,...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 25 January (HL4381), what was the cost of resolving the errors in the original report; how that cost was met; and what reduction, if any, was made in the fee p...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 10 October 2016 (HL2093), whether the Law Commission completed its review of Deprivation of Liberty safeguards by the end of 2016; and if so, when they expect to r...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 23 December 2016 (HL4166), what were the data quality issues in respect of the evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme and how long it took to resolve th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of the planned recruitment of 2,500 new prison staff, how many new staff will be employed in private prisons; and how many of the estimated 5,500 staff required to replace staff retiring or leaving the service will be empl...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to monitor staffing in private prisons.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of the planned recruitment of new prison staff, what the estimated change will be in staff-to-prisoner ratios in (1) public sector, and (2) private, prisons.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take in response to the comments in the Annual Report of the Forensic Science Regulator, published on 6 January, on current legal aid rates for experts and funding for forensic science cases, partic...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of the National Audit Office’s critical report on the proposed closure of local tax offices in the North East and the consequent reduction of staff, they will withdraw the planned measure.