HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.

The number of prison officers who were signed off work for mental health reasons in publicly-managed prison are shown in the Table 1 below.

Table 1: HMPPS band 3-5 prison officers¹ who were signed off sick due to Mental and Behavioural Disorders² in public sector prisons, 2009/10 to 2018/19

1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
2. Absences are categorised according to International Classification of Diseases, which is an approach used across the civil service.

While the figures show an increase in the number of individuals, the figures in 2010 represent 5.7% of the workforce and in 2019 it represents 8.5% of the workforce.

We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.

Information is not available on the number of prison officers diagnosed with PTSD in relation to their work in the prison service as there is no classification for PTSD available on the centralised recording of sick absence.

We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.

HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.

HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.

The number of prison officers in public sectors prisons who took early retirement due to ill health in each of the last 10 years is shown in the table below.

Table 1: HMPPS band 3-5 prison officers¹ who retired early due to ill health in public sector prisons, 2009/10 to 2018/19

1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers

Although there appears to be a clear upward trend, the figures have remained fairly static, representing only 0.3% of the workforce in 2010 and 0.5% of the workforce in 2019.

We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.

In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.

The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.

Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.

In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.

The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.

Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.

In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.

The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.

Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.

In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.

The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.

Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.

The Home Office is committed to ensuring that our immigration removal cen-tre (IRC) suppliers provide a high level of service to detainees while also providing value for money to the taxpayer. With regards to our suppliers’ staff, we require all our suppliers to put systems in place to fulfil a duty of care to their employees to ensure the wellbeing and resilience of their staff throughout their tenure in the IRC.

In line with other contractual agreements, IRC suppliers are required to meet set service standards, including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met.

The new contract to manage the IRCs at Gatwick will set high expectations for the quality of management and staffing in key elements of the estate.

Information on numbers of IRC staff is not centrally recorded in the format requested.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) recognises the importance of mental wellbeing and offers a wide range of mental health support to employees working in all its executive agencies and arm’s length bodies, which includes HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). This is captured in our Mental Health Strategy. MoJ has a network of Mental Health Allies, trained staff volunteers, working across MoJ to support staff.

MoJ offers all staff access to an Occupational Health (OH) service. For staff working in HMPPS this includes additional access to specialist Mental Health Advisers. All MoJ staff have access to our Employee Assistance Provider (EAP). The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It includes:

• six free counselling sessions per year (these can be extended in certain circumstances)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) where recommended by our OH providers.
• trauma and critical incident support.
• a range of workshops covering mental health for staff and line managers.

We have dedicated mental wellbeing intranet pages that all staff can access. Content includes, stress support tools and stress risk assessment forms, guidance for managers on how to support employees with mental ill health and links to external organisations. HMPPS offer staff “Live learning” programmes aimed at supporting the mental health of new Prison Officer recruits. Prison Officers are also supported by a variety of peer support groups such as Wellbeing Champions, the Chaplaincy Team, and Care teams.

At the Ministry of Justice, all staff in all its executive agencies and arm’s length bodies, which includes HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) have access to our Occupational Health provision and our Employee Assistance Provider (EAP) services.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be identified through an Occupational Health referral. In addition, within HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Mental Health Advisers, specialist advisers, provided by our OH supplier can identify treatment for PTSD, following a work related traumatic incident. Where PTSD is diagnosed MoJ employees will be referred for bespoke support provided by our EAP in the form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). These treatments have been identified as best practice in NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines.

In HMPPS we plan to implement TRiM (Trauma Management) training for prison based staff. This will take place in ten prisons with imminent roll out across the estate. TRiM is a mental health assessment approach used by the military to detect PTSD and will provide an additional method of recognising the condition which will allow employees to be fast tracked to the appropriate therapy.

We are concerned about the situation relating to the Scunthorpe works and British Steel, which is why my right hon. Friend the Business Secretary is actively engaging with the official receiver. Obviously, the official receiver has responsibility in relation to this matter, but we are doing all that we can, as a Government. I was pleased to meet—as the right hon. Lady knows—a number of Members of Parliament who have steel interests in their constituencies to talk

about the real impact that the closure of the works would have on people, and it is because of that impact that we are working so actively to try to ensure that we can retain employment in the area.

Prevent aims to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism and does not target a specific faith or ethnic group it deals with all forms of terrorism. Almost half of those people who receive Channel support are initially referred for concerns related to right-wing extremism. The independent review of the Prevent programme, which was announced on 22 January 2019, will therefore also deal with all forms of terrorism.

The Prevent programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent addresses all forms of terrorism, including right wing terrorism.

Since 2012, over 1,300 people have been supported through the voluntary, confidential Channel programme. In 2017/18, almost half of those people who received Channel support were initially referred for concerns related to right-wing extremism. The majority of the individuals who choose to participate in Channel leave with no further terrorism-related concerns. The Channel programme continues to expand its cohort of right wing specialist intervention providers that provide bespoke intervention sessions with individuals that have been identified as being vulnerable to being radicalised by far-right organisations and their narratives.

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works closely with a range of partners to tackle extremism of all ideologies in prisons, including ideologies held by far-right offenders. An HMPPS and Home Office Joint Extremism Unit (JEXU) was established in April 2017 to be the strategic centre for all counter terrorism work in prison and probation and have oversight of delivery across the end-to-end offender management process.

Prisoners identified as being of extremist concern, or who have shown signs of being vulnerable to extremism, are managed actively as part of a comprehensive case management process. Over 22,000 prison staff have received specialist extremism awareness training, to enable them to identify, report and challenge extremist views.

HMPPS uses a wide range of interventions as part of its management of extremist offenders in prison. These range from assessment tools, such as the Extremism Risk Guidance 22+ and Extremism Risk Screening, to rehabilitative measures such as the Healthy Identity Intervention, Developing Dialogues, and the Desistance and Disengagement Programme. Interventions play an important role in helping to encourage and facilitate desistance and disengagement from extremism, support reintegration into society, and reduce the risk of further offending. All of these interventions are available to far-right offenders, if required.

The Department keeps delivery progress in constant review. ECO3 is a three and a half year scheme and obligated suppliers may deliver the obligation at any time during the obligation period. Historically, delivery has been low at the start of each scheme while suppliers end one obligation period and start to build up momentum under the new scheme rules.

The scheme allows participating Local Authorities to determine eligibility and refer households to obligated suppliers, and in those cases removing the need for suppliers to target eligible households. This is a voluntary mechanism for suppliers to use, and it equates to up to 25% of ECO.

The regulations have been in force for less than six months, and there is time for suppliers to increase delivery rate up to the end of the scheme in March 2022.

Almost 2.5m insulation, heating and other measures have been delivered since ECO began in 2013. Of those 66% were for insulation. Under ECO3, so far over 54k measures have been installed. Of those, 55% were for insulation.

Since the start of the ECO3 obligation, 14,983 cavity wall insulations and 10,951 loft insulations have been installed in homes up to the end of March 2019.

For the purpose of this response, I assume that the question is referring to the ambition for homes to reach Band C by 2035, rather than 2015. Good progress has already been made improving the energy performance of our housing stock, with 30% of homes in England at Band C or above, with a further 51% already at Band D, according to the 2017 English Housing Survey. This is up from 7% and 40% respectively in 2007.

Since the publication of the Clean Growth Strategy we have:

• Reformed the Energy Company Obligation to focus on those households in or at risk of fuel poverty
• Issued a call for evidence on building a market for energy efficiency, on which we will set out more detail in the forthcoming Green Finance Strategy and Energy White Paper
• Introduced regulations on 1st April 2018 which require landlords to bring their properties to EPC Band E or above, and amended these further to require a contribution of up to £3,500 from landlords towards the cost of improvements from 1^st April 2019.
• Launched supply chain pilots in six local areas focusing on building capacity and reducing costs
• Launched a new digital service, Simple Energy Advice, to provide impartial and tailored advice to homeowners and tenants.
• Worked with industry to launch a new quality mark for home energy improvements, implementing the recommendations of the independent Each Home Counts review
• Established a £10 million innovation project to reduce the cost of whole house retrofit.

The Home Office routinely collects and releases data on the number of violent offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.This data does not include information on whether the violence was motivated by far-right ideology or not.