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Mr. Charles Wardle : Provincial police forces.

Mrs. Roche : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deportees, and how many of their dependants, were escorted by private security firms in 1993.


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Mr. Charles Wardle : Between April and December 1993, 167 people removed under powers in the Immigration Act 1971, including deportees and their dependants, were escorted overseas by private security firms. Statistics for January to March 1993 are not available.

Deportees (Drugs Administration)

Mrs. Roche : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) in what percentage of deportations in 1993 drugs were administered to the deportee or their dependants ;

(2) in what percentage of cases where drugs were administered to deportees or their dependants in 1993 their medical records were checked first.

Mr. Charles Wardle : This information is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. It is not normal practice for drugs to be administered to deportees or their dependants. Where medical records are available, they would be consulted as necessary before the administration of any medication.

New Prisons

Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the estimated timetable for the financing, designing, building and opening of the new prisons announced in October 1993 ; (2) when he will be inviting private sector proposals for financing, designing, building and managing the six new prisons which were announced in October last year.

Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 1 February 1994 :

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your two recent Questions about the timing of plans for the design, construction, management and finance by the private sector of the six new prisons which were announced in October last year.

Expressions of interest for the first two of these, in South Wales and on Merseyside, have been invited. Private sector companies interested in bidding for these contracts have been asked to let the Prison Service have their initial responses by 11 February 1994. By 31 March 1994 the Prison Service plans to issue invitations to tender for the two projects. The timetable for the award of contracts and completion of the prisons will depend on the initial responses, but it is intended that the two prisons should be brought into use as speedily as possible.

Work is currently in progress to identify suitable sites for the other four prisons.

Dog Attacks

Ms Hoey : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the most recent figures for dog attacks on humans in the metropolitan areas for (a) 1991, (b) 1992 and (c) 1993.

Mr. Charles Wardle : The information requested is not available in all the metropolitan areas.


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Ethnic Minorities (Grants)

Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total amount of funds have been made available over the last year under (a) the safer cities scheme, (b) section 11 grants, (c) ethnic minority grants and (d) ethnic minority business grant.

Mr. Peter Lloyd : During the 1992-93 financial year funds were made available under these schemes as follows :


             |£ million          

---------------------------------

Safer cities |7.7                

Section 11   |129.7              

EMG          |4.0                

EMBI         |0.4                

Safer Cities

Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will itemise the expenditure on the administration of safer cities, including printing, advertising and stationery costs as well as worker expenses (a) over the last year and (b) since the scheme was developed.

Mr. Charles Wardle : Since the safer cities programme was launched in 1988, the following expenditure has been incurred on the programme's administration :


£ thousand                                                 

               |1988-93   |1993-94<1>|Totals               

-----------------------------------------------------------

Publicity      |533       |90        |623                  

Evaluation     |188       |47        |235                  

Administration |1,619     |309       |1,928                

Salaries       |3,617     |1,013     |4,630                

Surveys        |1,060     |62        |1,122                

Capital        |307       |3         |310                  

<1>1993-94 figures represent expenditure up to, and        

including, the third                                       

quarter.                                                   

The above mentioned budgets comprise the following categories of expenditure :

Publicity--producing action plans, annual reports, local brochures- organising seminars and conferences-publicising crime prevention schemes and activities.

Evaluation--data collection, census statistics, analysis software, analysis consultancies and census boundary data in order to evaluate the Programme.

Administration--project running costs, including stationery, staff travel and subsistence expenses office rent and rates minor office works recruitment of staff staff training workshops and a national conference equipment maintenance costs

Salaries--salaries of project staff

Surveys--local surveys and research work to identify crime problems and solutions, and to evaluate grant-aided schemes-centrally commissioned surveys to assist the evaluation of the Programme Capital--project furniture and equipment

A further breakdown of the programme's expenditure could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.

Fire and Emergency Calls

Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing (a) the number of fire and emergency calls per 1,000 population in each fire authority area, (b) the number of fire officers per 1,000 population and (c) the number of fire and emergency calls per officer, for each fire authority are in (a) 1989, (b) 1990 and (c) 1991.


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Mr. Charles Wardle : The information requested is being collated. I will send a table to the hon. Member as soon as it is available.

Airline Securities Consultants Ltd.

Mrs. Roche : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the outcome of his Department's investigations into the two other cases apart from Dorothy Nirokedi and Meya Mangeta regarding complaints alleging excessive force by Airline Securities Consultants Ltd. ; whether his Department will continue to use Airline Securities Consultants Ltd. ; and if he will publish in full the complaints against this company, and his Department's investigations of them ;

(2) what were the names of the deportees involved in the four complaints alleging excessive force in individual cases in which Airline Securities Consultants Ltd. has been employed by his Department to escort deportees ; and where they were deported from.

Mr. Charles Wardle : The complaints about the alleged use of excessive force in escorting Mrs. Dorothy Nwokedi and Mr. Meya Mangete have been thoroughly investigated and were found to be unsubstantiated. Two further complaints about the conduct of Airline Security Consultants Ltd. in escorting two people being removed from the United Kingdom are still being investigated. These people have not sought any publicity for their cases and it would not be appropriate to disclose their names. Nor would it be appropriate to publish the complaints made against Airline Security Consultants or the reports of these investigations. I will, however, write to the hon. Member advising her of the outcome when they have been completed. I do not consider there are grounds for suspending the use of Airline Security Consultants Ltd. to escort deportees.

Research Projects

Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those research projects (a) undertaken internally by his Department and (b) commissioned by his Department from external contractors, within the last five years, which have gathered data on the employment status (i) of persons convicted of crimes and (ii) of persons given custodial sentences.

Mr. Maclean : This information is not routinely collected, and special research exercises are required to do so. The national prison survey, carried out in 1991, provides the information for a representative sample for persons given custodial sentences. Results are published in "Home Office Research Studies" No. 128. The research and planning unit has recently commissioned a similar survey on offenders on probation "People On Probation", results of which will be available around the end of the year.

Many of the projects in the research and planning unit's programme include reference of some sort to employment status. The main projects are listed in the table, including publication details of those completed.

Internal projects

1. The National Prison Survey 1991 : main findings, (HORS No. 128).

2. Developments in the use of compensation orders magis- trates' courts since 1988, (HORS No. 126).

3. Deductions from benefit for fine default, (RPU Paper No. 60).


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4. Unit fines : experiments in four courts, (RPU Paper No. 59). 5. Day Centre reconviction rates, British Journal of Criminology 32(3) 1992.

6. People on probation.

7. Implementation and use of the combination order.

8. Predicting sexual reconviction.

9. Reconviction Prediction score.

External projects

10. Custodial and post-custodial work and employment.

11. Managing the needs of women prisoners.

12. Imprisonment and family ties.

13. The dynamics of recidivism.

Criminology Researchers

Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy on the granting of permission to criminology researchers to interview prisoners.

Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Mr. Derek Lewis to Mr. John McFall, dated 1 February 1994.

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your Question about the policy on granting permission to criminology researchers interview prisoners.

Requests to interview inmates in prison establishments in England and Wales are considered on the basis of the practicability and likely benefit of the research, the demands of the research project on Prison Service resources, the qualifications of the researcher, and the consent of the prisoner.

Deportation

Mrs. Roche : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 21 January, Official Report, column 927, what plans he has to ensure that his Department makes appropriate checks on private security firms employed by carriers required by the Immigration Service to effect the removal of a passenger refused leave to enter.

Mr. Charles Wardle : As I explained in the answer to which the hon. Member refers, carriers are responsible for all the arrangements necessary to comply with directions to remove people refused leave to enter. There are no plans to change these arrangements.

Hoax Fire Calls

Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hoax fire calls per 1,000 population were made in each fire authority area in (a) 1989, (b) 1990 and (c) 1991.

Mr. Charles Wardle : Information on malicious false alarm incidents attended by local authority fire brigades is shown in the table.


Malicious false alarm incidents per 1,000 population by brigade area,         

1989-91                                                                       

Brigade area              |1989        |1990        |1991                     

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United Kingdom            |2.3         |2.4         |2.6                      

England and Wales         |2.2         |2.3         |2.5                      

England                   |2.2         |2.3         |2.5                      

                                                                              

England, non-Metropolitan |1.4         |1.5         |1.6                      

Avon                      |1.4         |1.4         |1.7                      

Bedfordshire              |1.3         |1.3         |1.1                      

Berkshire                 |1.1         |1.2         |1.6                      

Buckinghamshire           |1.3         |1.4         |1.3                      

Cambridgeshire            |1.3         |1.3         |1.6                      

Cheshire                  |1.4         |1.7         |1.6                      

Cleveland                 |6.8         |6.4         |7.9                      

Cornwall                  |0.5         |0.5         |0.6                      

Cumbria                   |1.3         |1.3         |1.6                      

Derbyshire                |1.6         |1.6         |1.6                      

Devon                     |1.2         |1.4         |1.7                      

Dorset                    |0.6         |0.9         |1.2                      

Durham                    |3.1         |3.8         |4.0                      

East Sussex               |1.0         |0.9         |1.1                      

Essex                     |1.4         |1.4         |1.6                      

Gloucestershire           |1.1         |1.5         |1.5                      

Hampshire                 |0.5         |0.6         |0.6                      

Hereford and Worcester    |1.3         |1.5         |1.4                      

Hertfordshire             |0.9         |1.0         |1.0                      

Humberside                |2.7         |3.4         |3.4                      

Isle of Wight             |0.5         |0.5         |0.7                      

Kent                      |1.6         |1.3         |1.6                      

Lancashire                |2.3         |2.5         |3.1                      

Leicestershire            |1.8         |1.9         |1.9                      

Lincolnshire              |1.4         |1.5         |1.5                      

Norfolk                   |0.9         |0.9         |0.9                      

North Yorkshire           |0.8         |0.9         |0.8                      

Northamptonshire          |1.0         |1.0         |1.1                      

Northumberland            |1.2         |1.5         |1.8                      

Nottinghamshire           |1.6         |1.6         |1.5                      

Oxfordshire               |1.1         |1.4         |1.4                      

Shropshire                |0.8         |1.5         |1.9                      

Somerset                  |0.5         |0.6         |1.2                      

Staffordshire             |1.3         |1.4         |1.7                      

Suffolk                   |0.5         |0.5         |0.6                      

Surrey                    |1.1         |1.3         |1.2                      

Warwickshire              |1.0         |1.3         |1.0                      

West Sussex               |1.0         |1.0         |0.9                      

Wiltshire                 |0.8         |0.8         |1.1                      

                                                                              

England, Metropolitan     |3.6         |3.7         |3.8                      

Greater Manchester        |4.3         |4.5         |5.1                      

Merseyside                |4.7         |4.3         |4.6                      

South Yorkshire           |2.7         |2.8         |3.0                      

Tyne and Wear             |5.1         |5.4         |6.1                      

West Midlands             |3.4         |3.4         |3.6                      

West Yorkshire            |3.8         |3.6         |3.5                      

Greater London            |3.0         |3.2         |3.2                      

                                                                              

Wales                     |2.5         |2.7         |2.6                      

Clwyd                     |1.5         |2.0         |1.8                      

Dyfed                     |1.6         |1.5         |1.6                      

Gwent                     |2.6         |3.1         |3.2                      

Gwynedd                   |1.5         |1.2         |1.1                      

Mid Glamorgan             |3.4         |3.5         |3.4                      

Powys                     |0.7         |0.5         |0.8                      

South Glamorgan           |3.7         |3.3         |3.2                      

West Glamorgan            |3.1         |3.8         |3.3                      

                                                                              

Northern Ireland          |2.5         |2.7         |2.4                      

                                                                              

Scotland                  |2.7         |3.0         |3.6                      

Strathclyde               |3.4         |3.5         |5.0                      

Highland and Islands      |0.7         |0.9         |1.4                      

Grampian                  |0.9         |1.0         |1.2                      

Tayside                   |2.0         |2.4         |2.6                      

Lothian                   |3.2         |4.4         |3.8                      

Fife                      |2.6         |2.0         |2.9                      

Central                   |2.5         |2.3         |2.2                      

Dumfries                  |1.6         |1.7         |1.9                      


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Immigration (Children)

Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children, and from which countries, have entered the United Kingdom for adoption in each of the last five years ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Charles Wardle : Statistics of children entering the United Kingdom with a view to adoption are not collected centrally.

Prisoners (Press Interviews)

Mr. Mackinlay : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what rules exist to prevent payment to convicted prisoners or their agents or relatives, as a way of capitalising on their notoriety and crime by granting press interviews ;

(2) if he will consider taking powers to prevent all payments to convicted prisoners who agree to sell their stories to the media.

Mr. Maclean [holding answer 26 January 1994] : Prison Service standing orders prohibit sentenced prisoners from engaging in correspondence, or in communicating by telephone about matters, which includes material intended for publication in return for payment. Visits to inmates by journalists or authors in their professional capacity are generally not allowed. In addition, the newspaper industry's code of practice specifically provides that people involved in crime or their associates should not be paid for their stories. It would not be feasible to devise legal restraints sufficiently broad to prevent criminals profiting from published accounts of their criminal activities, while at the same time avoiding unjustifiable restrictions on media reporting of matters of legitimate public interest. Enforcement could be particularly difficult since payment could be made indirectly, covertly or outside the jurisdiction.

Young Prisoners

Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) 18-year-olds, (b) 19-year-olds, (c) 20-year-olds and (d) 21-year-olds were held in Prison Service establishments, both on remand and sentenced, on the last day of each month from 31 January 1992 to the present ; and in which establishments they were held ;

(2) how many (a) 15-year-olds, and (b) 16-year-olds, (c) 17-year-olds were held in Prison Service establishments, both on remand and sentenced, on the last day of each month from 31 January 1992 to the present ; and in which establishments they were held.

Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 27 January 1994] : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 1 February 1994.

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Questions asking how many (a) 15-year-olds, (b) 16-year-olds, (c) 17-year-olds, (d) 18-year- olds, (e) 19-year-olds, (f) 20-year-olds and (g) 21-year-olds were held in Prison Service


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establishments, both on remand and sentenced, on the last day of each month from 31 January 1992 to the present ; and in which establishments they were held.


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The available provisional information is given in the attached tables.


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Population<1> aged 15 to 21,                                                                                                        

by type of custody in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales                                                            

1992-93                                                                                                                             

                Age                                                                                                                 

Custody type   |15          |16          |17          |18          |19          |20          |21          |All ages                 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

September 1993                                                                                                                      

Male                                                                                                                                

Remand         |34          |100         |387         |734         |832         |741         |802         |3,630                    

Sent<2>        |70          |169         |427         |875         |1,446       |1,632       |1,809       |6,428                    

Female                                                                                                                              

Remand         |-           |-           |9           |16          |18          |23          |25          |91                       

Sent<2>        |4           |9           |9           |21          |40          |45          |48          |176                      

               |-------     |-------     |-------     |-------     |-------     |-------     |-------     |-------                  

Total          |108         |278         |832         |1,646       |2,336       |2,441       |2,684       |10,325                   

                                                                                                                                    

June 1993                                                                                                                           

Male                                                                                                                                

Remand         |35          |87          |399         |723         |764         |717         |735         |3,460                    

Sent<2>        |94          |204         |494         |904         |1,385       |1,440       |1,621       |6,142                    

Female                                                                                                                              

Remand         |-           |1           |13          |17          |19          |20          |23          |93                       

Sent<2>        |2           |6           |7           |31          |53          |39          |42          |180                      

               |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______                  

Total          |131         |298         |913         |1,675       |2,221       |2,216       |2,421       |9,875                    

                                                                                                                                    

June 1992                                                                                                                           

Male                                                                                                                                

Remand         |29          |71          |493         |646         |721         |701         |621         |3,282                    

Sent<2>        |76          |178         |463         |1.004       |1,404       |1,686       |1,905       |6,716                    

Female                                                                                                                              

Remand         |-           |-           |9           |11          |20          |23          |21          |84                       

Sent<2>        |1           |7           |11          |32          |41          |32          |44          |168                      

               |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______                  

Total          |106         |256         |976         |1,693       |2,186       |2,442       |2,591       |10,250                   

                                                                                                                                    

March 1992                                                                                                                          

Male                                                                                                                                

Remand         |19          |62          |470         |664         |724         |709         |632         |3,280                    

Sent<2>        |74          |188         |470         |1,027       |1,451       |1,626       |1,870       |6,706                    

Female                                                                                                                              

Remand         |-           |-           |9           |15          |23          |26          |26          |99                       

Sent<2>        |1           |5           |7           |28          |46          |38          |48          |173                      

               |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______     |_______                  

Total          |94          |255         |956         |1,734       |2,244       |2,399       |2,576       |10,258                   

<1>Provisional figures.                                                                                                             

<2>Includes non-criminal prisoners and those sentenced for non-payment of a fine.                                                   


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Population<1> in prison service establishments, England and Wales                                                  

aged under 21, by establishment and type of custody on 30 September 1993                                           

                                Age                                                                                

Establishment    |Custody type |15           |16           |17           |18           |19                         

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Male                                                                                                               

Aylesbury        |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |4            |27           |74                         

                                                                                                                   

Bedford          |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |1            |1                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |2                          

                                                                                                                   

Birmingham       |Remand       |-            |-            |1            |-            |1                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Brinsford        |Remand       |2            |13           |41           |63           |69                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |7            |26           |44           |41           |41                         

                                                                                                                   

Brixton          |Remand       |-            |-            |1            |1            |-                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |1            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Bullingdon       |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

Camp Hill        |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |2                          

                                                                                                                   

Cardiff          |Remand       |1            |1            |11           |16           |30                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |2            |4            |3                          

                                                                                                                   

Castington       |Sentenced<2> |-            |1            |5            |46           |79                         

                                                                                                                   

Chelmsford       |Remand       |-            |-            |6            |12           |17                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |1            |3                          

                                                                                                                   

Deerbolt         |Remand       |1            |1            |3            |5            |3                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |24           |34           |56           |54           |75                         

                                                                                                                   

Dorchester       |Remand       |-            |-            |2            |6            |8                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |2                          

                                                                                                                   

Dover            |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |5            |34           |63                         

                                                                                                                   

Elmley           |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Exeter           |Remand       |-            |-            |4            |10           |13                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |4            |3                          

                                                                                                                   

Feltham          |Remand       |1            |22           |40           |79           |105                        

                 |Sentenced<2> |11           |40           |101          |83           |70                         

                                                                                                                   

Finnamore Wood   |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |12           |29                         

Full Sutton      |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Garth            |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Glen Parva       |Remand       |6            |14           |50           |84           |81                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |1            |3            |16           |82           |146                        

                                                                                                                   

Gloucester       |Remand       |-            |4            |9            |20           |28                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |1            |2            |6            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

Guy Marsh        |Sentenced<2> |7            |14           |53           |24           |32                         

                                                                                                                   

Hatfield         |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |2            |36           |63                         

                                                                                                                   

Haslar           |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |1            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

Hindley          |Remand       |4            |3            |32           |51           |79                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |2            |17           |17                         

                                                                                                                   

Hollesley Bay    |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |3            |36           |61                         

                                                                                                                   

Holme House      |Remand       |3            |7            |8            |24           |21                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |1            |1            |4            |10           |18                         

                                                                                                                   

Huntercombe      |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |1            |22           |69                         

                                                                                                                   

Lancaster Farms  |Remand       |-            |8            |26           |52           |57                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |4            |27           |40                         

                                                                                                                   

Lewes            |Remand       |-            |-            |3            |2            |9                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

Lincoln          |Remand       |-            |-            |10           |20           |25                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |5            |10                         

                                                                                                                   

Liverpool        |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Low Newton       |Remand       |8            |6            |23           |52           |48                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |1            |9            |11                         

                                                                                                                   

Moorland         |Remand       |8            |18           |53           |120          |91                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |6            |18           |46           |65                         

                                                                                                                   

Northallerton    |Sentenced<2> |-            |1            |1            |9            |15                         

                                                                                                                   

Norwich          |Remand       |-            |3            |4            |5            |13                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |1            |1            |4                          

                                                                                                                   

Onley            |Sentenced<2> |16           |25           |45           |69           |123                        

                                                                                                                   

Pentonville      |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Portland         |Sentenced<2> |-            |1            |11           |52           |120                        

                                                                                                                   

Reading          |Remand       |-            |-            |21           |39           |35                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |8            |15                         

                                                                                                                   

Rochester        |Remand       |-            |-            |10           |24           |42                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

Stoke Heath      |Remand       |-            |-            |8            |22           |17                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |16           |38           |57                         

                                                                                                                   

Swansea          |Remand       |-            |-            |12           |13           |22                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |2            |-            |-            |-            |2                          

                                                                                                                   

Swinfen Hall     |Sentenced<2> |-            |1            |10           |21           |38                         

                                                                                                                   

Thorn Cross      |Sentenced<2> |1            |7            |20           |36           |64                         

                                                                                                                   

Usk              |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |10           |23                         

                                                                                                                   

Woodhill         |Remand       |-            |-            |9            |13           |17                         

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |3            |2                          

______           |______       |______       |______       |______       |______       |______                     

Total                          |104          |269          |814          |1,609        |2,278                      

                 |Remand       |34           |100          |387          |734          |832                        

                 |Sentenced<2> |70           |169          |427          |875          |1,446                      

                                                                                                                   

Female                                                                                                             

Askham Grange    |Sentenced<2> |1            |3            |-            |1            |5                          

                                                                                                                   

Bullwood Hall    |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |-            |2            |7                          

                                                                                                                   

Drake Hall       |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |4            |2            |6                          

                                                                                                                   

Durham           |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |1            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

East Sutton Park |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Holloway         |Remand       |-            |-            |3            |7            |6                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-1           |-            |-            |6            |5                          

                                                                                                                   

Low Newton       |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |1            |1            |1                          

                                                                                                                   

New Hall         |Remand       |-            |-            |5            |4            |2                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |2            |2            |1            |3            |5                          

                                                                                                                   

Pucklechurch     |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |1            |2                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |-            |3            |-            |-                          

                                                                                                                   

Risley           |Remand       |-            |-            |1            |4            |8                          

                                                                                                                   

Styal            |Remand       |-            |-            |-            |-            |-                          

                 |Sentenced<2> |-            |2            |-            |5            |11                         

                               |______       |______       |______       |______       |______                     

Total            |4            |9            |18           |37           |58           |68                         

Remand           |-            |-            |9            |16           |18           |23                         

Sentenced<2>     |4            |9            |9            |21           |40           |45                         

<1> Provisional figures.                                                                                           

<2> Includes non-criminal prisoners and those sentenced for non-payment of a fine.                                 

WALES

Housing Revenue Account

Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the amount of housing revenue account subsidy for 1993-94 and 1994- 95 for each district council in Wales, and for Wales as a whole, showing the percentage increase or decrease in each case.

Mr. Gwilym Jones : The amount of housing revenue account subsidy claimed by each authority in Wales as a whole in 1993-94 is given in the following table. Comparable information for 1994-95 is not yet available as first subsidy claims for that year are not due until April.


Housing revenue account subsidy entitlement          

Local authority                                      

-----------------------------------------------------

Aberconwy BC         |1,613,843                      

Alyn and Deeside DC  |2,566,612                      

Arfon BC             |2,860,306                      

Blaenau Gwent BC     |10,967,070                     

Brecknock BC         |759,755                        

Cardiff CC           |23,291,119                     

Carmarthen DC        |2,348,352                      

Ceredigion DC        |1,932,664                      

Colwyn BC            |2,194,617                      

Cynon Valley BC      |4,914,395                      

Delyn BC             |2,957,483                      

Dinefwr BC           |1,486,992                      

Dwyfor DC            |958,012                        

Glyndwr DC           |803,215                        

Islwyn BC            |5,242,264                      

Llanelli BC          |7,501,220                      

Lliw Valley BC       |4,157,709                      

Meirionnydd DC       |1,238,429                      

Merthyr Tydfil BC    |7,588,053                      

Monmouth BC          |3,815,493                      

Montgomeryshire DC   |496,002                        

Neath BC             |4,921,454                      

Newport BC           |10,363,902                     

Ogwr BC              |7,702,537                      

Port Talbot BC       |4,668,643                      

Preseli Pembs DC     |2,848,229                      

Radnorshire DC       |525,905                        

Rhondda BC           |8,301,654                      

Rhuddlan BC          |1,276,569                      

Rhymney Valley DC    |11,347,929                     

South Pembs DC       |1,427,901                      

Swansea CC           |17,353,927                     

Taff Ely BC          |6,816,221                      

Torfaen BC           |13,076,949                     

Vale of Glamorgan BC |3,612,705                      

Wrexham Maelor BC    |7,839,056                      

Ynys Mon BC          |4,438,990                      

Wales                |196,216,176                    

Children (Benefits)

Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children there were in families receiving supplementary benefit in Wales in 1979 ; and how many children there were in families receiving supplementary benefit/income support in Wales at the latest available date.

Mr. Redwood : The information requested is shown in the following table. The latest available information relates to February 1993.


Children of supplementary           

benefit/income support recipients   

in Wales                            

Year        |Number of              

            |children<1>            

------------------------------------

1979        |57,000                 

1993        |165,000                

Sources:                            

Supplementary benefit statistics    

annual enquiries, November 1979.    

Income support statistics quarterly 

enquiry, February 1993.             

<1> All figures have been rounded   

to the nearest thousand. Children   

are                                 

defined as being under 16 years of  

age.                                


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Vehicle Registration Mark

Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales further to the Minister of State's letter to the hon. Member for Newport, West of 19 November 1993, when his Department expects to conclude consideration of the possible amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 to allow the use of the "D"--Dysgwr--symbol in Wales.

Sir Wyn Roberts : This matter is currently receiving consideration and I will make an announcement when all the implications have been addressed fully. In the meantime, the hon. Member will wish to note that there exists no bar on learner drivers using a D plate in conjunction with an L plate.

Fraud

Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many employees were judged to be guilty of fraud in his Department in each year since 1989 ; and how many were dismissed.

Mr. Redwood : In 1991, one officer was found in breach of departmental regulations and dismissed. A criminal conviction for fraud followed.

Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's policy for dealing with employees found guilty of fraud.

Mr. Redwood : All cases of misconduct are investigated and considered on their merits.

Welsh Development Agency

Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when the chairman of the Welsh Development Agency provided a reference for the former chief executive of the Welsh Development Agency to the Further Education Funding Council.

Mr. Redwood : I have arranged for the chairman's office to reply to the hon. Member and for a copy of that letter to be placed in the Library of the House.

Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when a senior official of the Welsh Office provided a reference to the Further Education Funding Council for the former chief executive of the Welsh Development Agency.

Mr. Redwood : On 29 November 1993.

Council Housing Receipts

Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his latest estimate of the amount of cash (a) in Wales and (b) in each of the accounts of the local authority housing authorities from the sales of council houses.

Mr. Gwilym Jones : The latest local authority estimates of usable capital receipts from the sales of council houses held at 31 March 1993 are given in the following table :


Usable capital receipts from the      

sales of council houses,              

at 31 March 1993                      

                      |£'000          

--------------------------------------

Alyn and Deeside      |0              

Colwyn                |384            

Delyn                 |0              

Glyndwr               |285            

Rhuddlan              |627            

Wrexham Maelor        |106            

Carmarthen            |353            

Ceredigion            |197            

Dinefwr               |0              

Llanelli              |0              

Preseli Pembrokeshire |1,468          

South Pembrokeshire   |1,322          

Blaenau Gwent         |901            

Islwyn                |458            

Monmouth              |1,566          

Newport               |0              

Torfaen               |1,615          

Aberconwy             |672            

Arfon                 |141            

Dwyfor                |144            

Meirionnydd           |0              

Ynys Mon              |71             

Cynon Valley          |0              

Merthyr Tydfil        |602            

Ogwr                  |702            

Rhondda               |0              

Rhymney Valley        |570            

Taff Ely              |91             

Brecknock             |791            

Montgomeryshire       |694            

Radnorshire           |125            

Cardiff               |1,450          

Vale of Glamorgan     |5,659          

Port Talbot           |1,138          

Lliw Valley           |1,432          

Neath                 |77             

Swansea               |95             

                      |-------        

Total Wales           |23,736         

Source: Local Authority returns 1994. 

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Fraud

Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Attorney-General how many employees were judged to be guilty of fraud in his Department in each year since 1989 ; and how many were dismissed.

The Attorney-General : The following numbers of employees were convicted of offences of fraud or dishonesty in the Departments for which I am responsible :


        |Number       

----------------------

1990    |One          

1991    |Nil          

1992    |Nil          

1993    |One          

<1>1994 |One          

<1> To date.          

Two of these employees were dismissed and the third resigned while suspended from duty.

Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Attorney-General what is his Department's policy for dealing with employees found guilty of fraud.

The Attorney-General : Employees found guilty of fraud or dishonesty are liable to be dismissed under the relevant Department's disciplinary procedures.


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Drugs (Unsuccessful Prosecutions)

Mr. Callaghan : To ask the Attorney-General how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful prosecutions for drug offences in England and Wales have been launched in each of the past three years.

Mr. Maclean : I have been asked to reply.

Information for 1990 to 1992 is given in the table. 1993 data will not be available until the autumn.


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