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Northern IrelandMr. J. Burrow
Mr. W. Lawrence
The Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales Mr. D. Clark
Mr. D. Parkinson
Mr. V. Jones
The Police Federation for England and Wales
Mr. L. Williams
Mr. R. Coyles
Mr. R. Penn
Mr. A. Mason
Mr. J. Moseley
Mr. R. Oakley
Mr. G. Hyde
Mr. S. Cadmore
Mr. F. Broughton
Mr. D. Forsyth
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland)
Mr. P. Mitchell
The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents
Mr. J. Johnston
The Scottish Police Federation
Mr. J. MacDonald
Mr. J. Marshall
Mr. I. Black
Mr. D. Keil
Mr. J. Fraser
Mr. S. Falconer
The Superintendents Association of Northern Ireland
Mr. W. Davidson
Miss A. Donald
The Police Federation for Northern Ireland
Mr. D. McClurg
Mr. S. Beattie
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who are the members currently appointed to the Fire Services Research and Training Trust.
Mr. Charle Wardle : The trustees are as follows :
Mr. R. F. D. Shuffrey, CB, CVO, Chairman, formerly a Home Office Deputy Under-Secretary of State.
Mr. W. Baird, a former Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Scottish Office.
Sir Kenneth Holland, CBE, QFSM, formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services.
Mr. P. Quaile, recently retired as Deputy Chief General Manager of Sun Alliance and as Chairman of the Fire Protection Association. Mr. I. Roy, a former Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office.
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who are the members currently appointed to the Advisory Council on Race Relations.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The members of the Home Secretary's Advisory Council on Race Relations are as follows :
Representative Members :
Mr. R. Gilbert (Confederation of British Industries)
Dr. S. Deshmukh (Trades Union Congress)
Mr. S. Gillings (National Association of Racial Equality Councils)
Mr. R. Govindia (London Boroughs Association)
Councillor T. Harris (Association of Metropolitan Authorities) Mr. H. Ouseley (Commission for Racial Equality)
Councillor R. Place (Association of District Councils)
Vacancy (Association of County Councils)
Individual Members
Mrs. S. Ahmed
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Ms B. BernardMr. D. Bryan
Mr. T. Chan
Mrs. R. Howells
Mr. C. Kavallares
Mr. R. Mooneram
Mr. D. Neil
Mr. J. O'Loughlin
Councillor M. Rizvi
Mr. I. Sacranie
Ms A. Weekes
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research the Home Office has undertaken to determine the degree to which alcohol and illicit drug abuse is taking place in prisons ; what change the figures represent on previous records ; and what steps he has taken recently, or intends to take, in order to combat such abuse.
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 A. J. Butler to Mr. Frank Field, dated11 February 1994 :
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the research which has been undertaken to determine the degree to which alcohol and illicit drug abuse is taking place in prisons ; what change the figures represent on previous records ; and what steps he has taken recently or intends to take in order to combat such abuse. It is extremely difficult to establish with any satisfactory degree of certainty the degree to which alcohol and illicit drug abuse is taking place in prisons. This is because prisoners are understandably reluctant to admit to contravening prison rules. Most research has therefore focused on the use of alcohol and drugs by prisoners before they were imprisoned. A survey of 1,751 men serving a prison sentence (Maden, Swinton and Gunn, British Journal of Addiction 1992) showed that in 1988-89 43 per cent. of male sentenced prisoners had used drugs in the six months before their arrest. In the report "Mentally Disorderded Offenders" which was produced for the Prison Service by the same authors found alcohol and drug dependency (diagnosed on the basis of daily use during the six month period prior to their offence) as in the table below. The figures do not include cannabis users.
|Adult males|Young |Females |offenders -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sample size |1,365 |404 |273 Alcohol (per cent.) |8.6 |8.7 |4.4 Drugs (per cent.) |10.1 |6.2 |24.2
Research is currently being conducted for the Prison Service by the Drugs Addiction Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry to establish risk behaviour for HIV in prisons. This includes questions about current drug use which, if a satisfactory response rate is achieved, should provide better information on illicit drug use.
The availability and use of drugs in our prisons is a matter of concern. The Government will be bringing forward a clause for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill to allow the Prison Service to test prisoners for drug misuse. In addition to this the Prison Service is reviewing existing policy relating to drugs and is developing a Drug Strategy which will address ways of reducing the supply of drugs, of reducing demand (by means of improved indentification and treatment for drug misusers) and improved support for prisoners who have become drug free in prison on their return to the community.
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Mr. Winnick : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration has been given to the taking of legal action under the Race Relations Acts against the Hizb ut Tahrir organisation.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 10 February 1994] : There is no legal action under the Race Relations Act 1976 which requires the involvement of the Attorney-General. Offences of incitement to racial hatred are covered by part III of the Public Order Act 1986 for which the Attorney-General's consent is required before a case can proceed.
Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the local authorities that responded to his consultation document on deregulation of operator licensing and those that opposed the proposals.
Mr. Key : The 46 local authorities which responded to our consultation document are listed in the table. We made a number of proposals. The reaction to them was varied.
1. Three Rivers District Council, Herts
2. Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
3. Blaenau Borough Council, Gwent
4. Dacorum Borough Council, Herts
5. Mole Valley District Council, Dorking
6. Milton Keynes Borough Council
7. Gedling Borough Council
8. West Devon Borough Council
9. Hastings Borough Council
10. Runnymede Borough Council
11. South Lakeland District Council
12. Wiltshire County Council
13. Newbury District Council
14. Runnymede Borough Council
15. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council
16. Birmingham City Council
17. Rother District Council
18. Worcester City Council
19. Cherwell District Council
20. Derbyshire County Council
21. Mid-Beds District Council
22. North Kesteven District Council
23. Devon County Council
24. Avon County Council
25. Newark and Sherwood District Council
26. Kent County Council
27. Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority
28. Nottingham City Council
29. Norfolk Planning County Council
30. Babergh District Council
31. Bedfordshire County Council
32. New Forest District Council
33. Bawtry Town Council
34. Swansea City Council
35. South Norfolk District Council
36. Lincoln City Council
37. Copeland Borough Council
38. Lewes District Council
39. Southampton City Council
40. Bedfordshire County Council
41. Great Yarmouth Borough Council
42. Winchester City Council
43. London Borough of Wandsworth
44. Shropshire County Council
45. Suffolk County Council
46. Burnley Borough Council
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