To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the recent announcement to provide temporary basic accommodation to support prison leavers at risk of homelessness in five National Probation Service regions will include (1) women-only accommodation, and (2) provis...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the remand backlog on the welfare of the families of those being held in custody.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the remand backlog on (1) prison overcrowding, and (2) the health and wellbeing of prisoners, including children and young people held on remand.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women in prison are (1) pregnant, or (2) mothers with primary caring responsibilities.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which prisons currently have video calling facilities to allow people in prison to maintain contact with family members; what plans they have, if any, to expand such facilities across the prison estate; and what the cost of...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what arrangements they have made, if any, to enable people in prison to maintain contact with family members where neither in-cell telephony or secure mobile phones are available.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to enable the release on temporary licence of people in prison during the Christmas period.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners are currently sharing a cell with one or more others, broken down by prison.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government when they estimate the Female Offender Strategy will be fully implemented.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) men, and (2) women, have died in prison, or while under probation services, from natural causes that may have been exacerbated by COVID-19.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners (1) meet the criteria for being considered clinically extremely vulnerable to COVID-19, and (2) are currently following shielding guidelines, broken down by prison.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many residents of immigration removal centres (1) have displayed, or (2) are currently displaying, symptoms of COVID-19; and of those, how many have been tested. [T]...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what processes they operate for monitoring and reviewing decisions on asylum claims.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consultation they have undertaken with religious communities to inform decision-making processes for asylum claims.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications were made on behalf of children for family reunion visas outside the rules due to exceptional circumstances, in (1) 2016, and (2) 2017; and of those, how many applications were successful.