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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 733W, on prisons: budgets, which prison governors have been required to identify savings in their budgets for 2009-10 by Directors of Offender Management.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 February 2010
Reference
505 c122W; 314596
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what direction he has given to each prison governor on budgets for the financial year 2009-10.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 2010
Reference
504 c733W; 313572
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what methodology is used in the random selection of prisoners for drug testing.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 April 2009
Reference
491 c347W; 268862
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average length of service was for (a) a prison guard and (b) other staff in (i) all prisons in England and Wales and (ii) HM Prison Winchester in each of the last five years.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 February 2009
Reference
488 c356-8W; 258029
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2008, Official Report, column 684W, on prisons: telephones, if as part of the re-tendering process he will undertake to bring prison telephone tariffs closer to comparable tariffs outside prison.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 July 2008
Reference
216975; 478 c1313-4W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy to harmonise the cost of telephone calls made from within prisons with comparable tariffs outside prison.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 June 2008
Reference
478 c684W;478 c686W; 214411
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisons in England and Wales participate in child-friendly visit schemes.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 2007
Reference
160747; 465 c464W
House
House of Commons

Adjournment debate on rights of children held in prison.

Lead member
Mark Oaten
Answering member
Lord Hanson of Flint
Department
Ministry of Justice
Type
Adjournment debates
Date
15 October 2007
Reference
464 c669-78
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many registered methadone users there are in (a) Altcourse, (b) Bullingdon, (c) Elmley, (d) Holme House and (e) Hull prisons; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 January 2006
Reference
37508; 441 c2027W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Early Release and Recall Section of the National Offender Management Service monitors the performance of individual prisons in releasing recalled prisoners before their licence expiry date (LED); and what action is taken where a prison is known to...

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 January 2006
Reference
37765; 441 c1135-6W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidelines she has issued on the prescription of methadone in prisons; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 January 2006
Reference
441 c142W; 37324
House
House of Commons

(2) how many prisoners do not have access to a one-hour visit every two weeks.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 December 2005
Reference
440 c2034W; 32888
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether prisoners on the basic level of the incentives and earned privileges scheme are entitled to a one-hour visit every two weeks;

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 December 2005
Reference
440 c2034W; 32887
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the costs per minute to prisoners are of calls from prison to (a) local, (b) national, (c) international and (d) mobile lines.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 December 2005
Reference
440 c758-61W;440 c758-61W; 32886
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners received special family visits in each of the last three years.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 December 2005
Reference
32884; 440 c757W;440 c757W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made towards the introduction of targets for prisons in the area of family ties; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 December 2005
Reference
440 c757W;440 c757W; 32885
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost of constructing a 2,000-bed prison.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 October 2005
Reference
16031; 437 c492W;437 c498W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms exist for prisoners to appeal against the decisions of independent adjudicators on prison discipline in relation to (a) findings of guilt and (b) punishments awarded; what plans he has to amend the existing appeal procedures; and if he...

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 September 2005
Reference
16034; 436 c2596W;436 c2622W
House
House of Commons
But is not the Home Secretary embarrassed by the Labour Government's record on prisons? We now have the highest prison population in Europe, a reconviction rate of 59 per cent., 12 prisoners committed suicide this month alone, overcrowding in our prison cells is commonplace, and 17 per cent. of drug tests in prison are positive. What on earth has gone wrong with prisons under his Government, and what will he do to put it right?
Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
27 June 2005
Reference
435 c1006-7
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) proportion and (b) total number of prisoners' initial test results under the mandatory drug testing programme have subsequently proved inaccurate in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 March 2005
Reference
432 c585W; 218818
House
House of Commons