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Schools Budgets
Mr. Elletson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement about the amount by which Lancashire county council intends to cut its delegated schools budget; and if she will list the percentage increases and decreases of other local education authorities' schools budgets.
Mr. Robin Squire: Lancashire county council has provisionally fixed the size of its general schools budget for 1995 96, but the amount within that to be delegated to schools will not be finally determined until March. The information requested on other local education authorities' plans for their 1995 96 delegated school budgets is not yet available: authorities do not have to publish details of school budgets for that year until 31 March 1995.
Lancashire County Council
Mr. Elletson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education when her Department last raised the base of surplus places in schools with Lancashire county council; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: The Department has had no specific contact with Lancashire county council on the issue of surplus places. In January 1994, there were 12,398--9 per cent.--primary surplus school places and 11,754-- 13 per cent.--secondary surplus school places in Lancashire LEA. Pupil population growth and the authority's plans to rationalise some provision will reduce the amount of surplus from these levels.
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Surplus School Places
Mr. Martin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the latest figure for surplus school places for Hampshire local education authority.
Mr. Robin Squire: In January 1994, there were 18,287--13 per cent.-- primary surplus school places and 10,114--12 per cent.--secondary surplus school places in Hampshire LEA. The authority has recently completed a reorganisation which, together with pupil population growth, will have reduced the amount of surplus from these levels.
Staff Ratios
Mr. Elletson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make an assessment of the ratio of administrative employees to teaching staff in each local education authority in England and Wales.
Mr. Robin Squire: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Local Education Authorities
Sir David Knox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent per (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in each of the local education authorities in England in the most recent year for which figures are available, at constant prices.
Mr. Robin Squire: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Lloyd) on 21 February, Official Report column 177 79.
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Feversham College, Bradford
Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if an official or Ministers at any time since Feversham college in Bradford submitted an application for the college to be guaranteed voluntary aided status have suggested that the college might consider applying for grant- maintained status; if applying for grant-maintained status enables schools to obtain loans from her Department for capital and revenue purposes before a decision on the application is made; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: Neither Ministers nor officials of the Department have suggested Feversham college might consider applying for grant- maintained status. The Department does not make loans available to the promoters of any school to approval of their proposals to become a voluntary aided or a grant-maintained school. The Funding Agency for Schools does not have powers to make loans to promoters of new grant- maintained schools.
Free School Meals
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of children either take or are entitled to free school meals at (a) William Parker school, (b) Helenswood, (c) Hillcrest, (d) The Grove, (e) Filsham Valley in Hastings and (f) Thomas Peacock in Rye.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information, from returns made by schools to the Department, is as follows:
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School meal arrangements January 1994
|Number of day pupils|Day pupils taking |Pupils known to be
|free meals |eligible
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William Parker school |1,197 |143 [12 per cent.] |210 [18 per cent.]
Helenswood school |1,073 |159 [15 per cent.] |236 [22 per cent.]
Hillcrest school |1,250 |158 [13 per cent.] |300 [24 per cent.]
The Grove school |1,340 |255 [19 per cent.] |412 [31 per cent.]
Thomas Peacock community college |928 |90 [10 per cent.] |147 [16 per cent.]
Figures are not available for Filsham Valley school, which did not open until September 1994.
Staffordshire County Council
Sir David Knox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent in total on education in Staffordshire in each of the past 20 years, at constant prices.
Mr. Robin Squire: The table below shows total expenditure by Staffordshire local education authority from 1974 75 to 1993 94, the latest year for which provisional outturn figures are available. These figures have not been adjusted for any changes of function.
Staffordshire county council
|Gross expenditure
|(1994-95 prices)
|£ million
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1974-75 |460.1
1975-76 |472.9
1976-77 |478.9
1977-78 |460.0
1978-79 |470.0
1979-80 |460.2
1980-81 |468.3
1981-82 |475.8
1982-83 |465.2
1983-84 |470.4
1984-85 |458.3
1985-86 |449.2
1986-87 |469.2
1987-88 |481.9
1988-89 |491.2
1989-90 |466.5
1990-91 |474.8
1991-92 |479.3
1992-93 |523.2
1993-94<1> |413.3
<1> Provisional.
Sir David Knox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the pupil-teacher ratio in Staffordshire (a) in primary schools and (b) in secondary schools in each of the last 20 years.
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Mr. Robin Squire: The pupil-teacher ratios in primary and secondary schools in Staffordshire in each of the last 20 years are shown in the table.
Pupil:teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools in Staffordshire LEA Position in January each year Year |Primary |Secondary ---------------------------------------- 1975 |<1>- |<1>- 1976 |24.2 |17.2 1977 |24.2 |17.2 1978 |23.8 |17.0 1979 |23.2 |16.8 1980 |22.5 |16.7 1981 |21.8 |16.5 1982 |22.4 |16.6 1983 |22.0 |16.5 1984 |22.3 |16.4 1985 |22.4 |16.3 1986 |22.8 |16.6 1987 |22.9 |16.6 1988 |23.2 |16.4 1989 |23.0 |16.0 1990 |23.3 |15.8 1991 |23.1 |15.9 1992 |23.5 |16.1 1993 |24.7 |17.0 1994 |25.1 |17.5 <1> Not available.
Sir David Knox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent per pupil in Staffordshire (a) in primary schools and (b) in secondary schools in each of the past 20 years, at constant prices.
Mr. Robin Squire: The table shows expenditure by Staffordshire local education authority on (a) pre-primary and primary pupils combined, and on (b) secondary pupils from 1974 75 to 1993 94, the latest year for which provisional outturn figures are available.
Staffordshire County Council
Spending per pupil (1994-95 prices)
|Nursery/Primary|Secondary
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1974-75 |1,197 |1,943
1975-76 |1,204 |2,006
1976-77 |1,223 |1,949
1977-78 |1,167 |1,828
1978-79 |1,180 |1,821
1979-80 |1,195 |1,783
1980-81 |1,186 |1,640
1981-82 |1,253 |1,711
1982-83 |1,279 |1,709
1983-84 |1,324 |1,763
1984-85 |1,288 |1,765
1985-86 |1,281 |1,822
1986-87 |1,344 |1,973
1987-88 |1,418 |2,113
1988-89 |1,442 |2,225
1989-90 |1,451 |2,247
1990-91 |1,464 |2,178
1991-92 |1,527 |2,236
1992-93 |1,538 |2,195
1993-94<1> |1,565 |2,119
<1> Provisional.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Civil Servants (Fast Stream)
Mrs. Maddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of those accepted for fast-stream entry for which his Department is responsible (a) in 1991, (b) 1992, (c) in 1993 and (d) in 1994 were women.
Mr. Howard: The information requested for the years 1991 and 1992 can be found in the reports of the Civil Service Commissioners for those years, which are available in the Library.
In 1993, two of the 10 fast streamers assigned to the Home Office were women, and one women joined the Department after deferring entry from an earlier year. In 1994 both those assigned were men.
Drug Abuse (Prisons)
Mr. Frank Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received alleging that prison staff may condone drug abuse in the interests of avoiding disruption in prisons.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: 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 Mr. Frank Cook, dated 28 February 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about representations received alleging that prison staff may condone drug abuse in the interests of avoiding disruption in prisons. I have received one representation recently on this issue. Ministers have received none.
The Prison Service does not tolerate the use of illicit drugs within its establishments, nor do we accept staff condoning such use. This message will be reinforced shortly with the release of the new Prison Service drugs strategy.
A national drug testing programme for prisoners has just begun. This will emphasise further that the use of illicit drugs within prison is unacceptable and that anyone doing so will now run a far greater risk of being identified and punished.
Restriction Orders
Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the people charged and to date fined as a result of offences committed before, during or after the recent Ireland v. England match in Dublin currently are subject to restriction orders.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: Of those so far charged with offences connected to the Ireland v. England match on 15 February, none have been subject to restriction orders.
Refugees, Campsfield
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the compatibility of detention of refugees at Campsfield with the UN convention on refugees.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The Government are committed to their obligations under the 1951 United Nations convention relating to the status of refugees, and the protocol to that convention, and are satisfied that United Kingdom legislation and practice do not breach these or other relevant international obligations.
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Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those who have been detained at Campsfield over the past 12 months have (a) been given permission to remain in the United Kingdom as political refugees and (b) been deported to their country of origin.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many detainees in Campsfield have (a) died, (b) committed suicide and (c) attempted to commit suicide in the previous 12 months.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: No detainee has died or committed suicide at Campsfield house since it opened in November 1993. During the same period, two detainees have attempted to commit suicide.
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those who have been detained at Campsfield over the past 12 months have (a) applied for and (b) been granted bail.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if all the detainees at Campsfield have (a) been told in writing why they are being detained and (b) been given the right to challenge that information in civil court.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: All immigration detainees at Campsfield house have been informed of the reasons for detention orally, in a language which they understand, with an interpreter present if necessary. They are entitled to challenge the lawfulness of their detention by applying for a writ of habeas corpus or by seeking judicial review. I do not believe that any further written notification of the reasons for detention is necessary. All detainees are informed of their rights of appeal to the independent immigration appellate authorities, but the question of any legal challenge would be a matter for their representatives.
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list (a) the nationalities, (b) the gender and (c) the age and the number of each nationality of all those currently detained at Campsfield detention centre;
(2) for how long the person who has been detained for the longest period of time has been in Campsfield detention centre;
(3) how many people are currently detained in Campsfield detention centre.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: On 18 February 1995, 191 people were detained in the immigration detention centre, Campsfield house.
A breakdown by age is as follows:
|Number
-----------------------
Under 18 |0
18-20 |4
21-30 |102
31-40 |67
41-50 |18
Over 50 |0
Total |191
A breakdown by nationalities and gender is as follows:
Nationality |Male |Female |Total
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Albania |3 |- |3
Algeria |7 |1 |8
Angola |4 |- |4
Bangladesh |6 |- |6
Cameroon |2 |- |2
China |4 |- |4
Colombia |1 |2 |3
Cyprus |10 |- |10
Ecuador |1 |1 |2
Ghana |17 |7 |24
India |13 |1 |14
Ivory Coast |1 |2 |3
Jamaica |1 |3 |4
Kenya |- |3 |3
Lebanon |1 |- |1
Malaysia |1 |- |1
Mauritius |1 |- |1
Morocco |3 |- |3
Niger |2 |- |2
Nigeria |40 |10 |50
Pakistan |12 |- |12
Philippines |- |1 |1
Romania |1 |- |1
Senegal |2 |- |2
Sierra Leone |1 |2 |3
Somalia |1 |- |1
South Africa |1 |- |1
Sri Lanka |2 |- |2
Sudan |- |1 |1
Togo |1 |- |1
Turkey |9 |- |9
Uganda |- |1 |1
Yugoslavia (former) |2 |- |2
Zaire |5 |- |5
Nationality doubtful |- |1 |1
Total |155 |36 |191
The detainee who has been in Campsfield house for the longest period has been there since 5 March 1994.
Pop Festivals, Isle of Wight
Mr. Barry Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers the police have (a) to refuse and (b) to control pop festivals on the Isle of Wight.
Mr. Maclean: The grant or refusal of a licence for such events is at the discretion of the local authorities concerned, but in coming to their decisions they are required to have regard to any observations submitted to them by the police or fire authority. Chief officers of police do not themselves have powers to refuse such an event.
Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 gives the police a new power, where two or more people are making preparations, for a large- scale rave on land in the open air or where 10 or more people have gathered on a site to attend a rave which is likely to cause serious distress to the local community through amplified music being played during the night, to direct those people to leave the land. It is a criminal offence to ignore the direction.
These measures are specifically aimed at the public nuisance of unlicensed night time raves on land which can cause a great deal of distress to local residents.
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Crime, Lancashire
Mr. Elletson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about levels of crime in Lancashire.
Mr. Maclean: In the 12 months to June 1994, there were 128,534 recorded offences in Lancashire, a fall of 6.9 per cent. over the previous 12 months. The decrease for England and Wales as a whole was 5.5 per cent.
North-east London Probation Service
Mr. Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders were supervised by the north-east London probation service on 30 June 1994.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The latest available information is for December 1993, when the number of offenders supervised by the north-east London probation service was 3,887.
Mr. Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many court reports were completed by the north-east London probation service during 1992 and 1993.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: North-east London probation service completed 4,367 pre-sentence reports, social inquiry reports, family court reports and other reports for courts in 1992 and 5,105 such reports in 1993.
Gambling
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy in respect of stimulating the demand for gambling.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: The Government's policy is to ensure that people are free to gamble if they wish but that there should be some controls on the encouragement of gambling. These controls will vary according to the type of gambling.
I am currently reviewing the controls on the advertising of commercial gambling and plan to go out to consultation in May.
Asylum Seekers
Mr. Fisher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will establish an independent panel to adjudicate on the cases of all those who seek asylum in Britain and are detained.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The decision to detain a person under Immigration Act powers is taken by a chief immigration officer or above and is reviewed within 24 hours by an immigration inspector. Thereafter, detention is reviewed locally at least every seven days and after one month the case is reviewed at immigration service headquarters monthly and at an increasingly senior level. There is also an extensive system under which bail may be sought. Anyone refused asylum has a right of appeal and anyone who has an appeal pending may apply to the independent immigration appellate authorities for bail at any stage until the appeal has been finally determined. In addition, any passenger who has been detained for longer than seven days pending further examination may apply for bail to the appellate authorities. Detention may also be challenged in the courts by way of an application for habeas corpus, or bail may be sought from the courts once a case is before them in an application for judicial review.
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The Government believe that the internal review procedures, together with the opportunities available to apply for bail or to challenge detention through the courts, provide adequate safeguards and that a further independent review process is not justified.Burglary
Mr. Batiste: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he is taking to reduce the numbers of burglaries in England.
Mr. Maclean: Throughout the country, police forces have set up many initiatives which are successfully impacting on the number of domestic burglaries. The Metropolitan police's operation "Bumblebee" is the most widely known. West Yorkshire has run a "Hands Off" domestic burglary campaign and the Huddersfield division is currently developing and implementing a strategy for preventing repeat burglary. The Home Office will continue to encourage police forces to develop effective anti-burglary initiatives, including the project tackling the problem of repeat victimisation, and will support the police through its crime prevention training, publicity and research programmes.
Life Sentences
Mr. Mike O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 14 February, Official Report, column 589 , if he will name the prisoners who have been informed that Ministers have set a whole life tariff.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: No. The prisoners concerned have the right to make representations about the tariff set by previous Ministers. If they do so, their case will be considered afresh. No decision has yet been made in any of these cases. It would therefore be inappropriate to name the prisoners at this stage.
Departmental Expenditure
Mr. Ron Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was his Department's expenditure on (a) prisons and (b) the probation service in Wales in the latest available year.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: The net operating costs of Welsh prisons in 1993 94 were £18.8 million.
Expenditure by Welsh probation areas in 1993 94 was £18.4 million. The Home Office meets 80 per cent. of this expenditure and the responsible local authorities meet the remaining 20 per cent.
Pollok Free State
Mr. Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment he has made of the statement by the self-styled Pollok free state in Glasgow that foreign nationals are occupying the area claimed; and if he will make a statement;
(2) what action he proposes to take to review the passports and visas held by the foreign nationals currently occupying the self-styled Pollok free state in Glasgow; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Nicholas Baker: I understand that people, including a number of overseas nationals, are protesting against the construction of the M77 motorway through the Pollok area of south-west Glasgow and have been using the area adjacent to the construction site to enter it. I understand that while there are believed to be a number of overseas nationals involved in the protest, there is no information to suggest that any of them has breached the immigration laws. If the immigration service receives such information, it will be investigated and appropriate action will be taken.
Ethnic Minorities
Dr. Twinn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the allocation of section 11 grant for 1995 96 for each local authority, school or college (a) following the recent applications round and (b) in respect of existing projects; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to announce his decisions on applications made by local education authorities under section 11.
Mr. Howard: I am announcing today the outcome of the bidding round for new section 11 projects from 1995 96. Applicants are being informed. As I announced in reply to a question from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence) on 22 November, Official Report , column 64 , we have doubled the amount of funding on offer in each of the next two financial years to around £30 million. In deciding on the allocation of the funding, I gave highest priority to applications concerned with addressing additional educational needs among members of ethnic minorities, and particularly those seeking provision for the teaching of English as a second language in schools. Authorities and local communities will be pleased to learn that it has been possible to accommodate the key needs in this category of all authorities whose current section 11 funding is due to run out entirely at the end of this financial year.
The table shows the allocations in relation to 1995 96 for new projects and for existing projects, allocations for which were recently notified separately to authorities and institutions.
Section 11 Budget allocations for 1995-96
Existing and new projects
|New |Existing |Total
Grant recipient |projects |projects |allocation
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Local authorities and other
public bodies
Avon |568,144 |0 |568,144
Barking and Dagenham |258,362 |0 |258,362
Barnet |166,208 |609,490 |775,698
Bedfordshire |0 |1,988,238 |1,988,238
Berkshire |10,110 |715,258 |725,368
Bexley |19,900 |110,848 |130,748
Birmingham |43,676 |3,324,125 |3,367,801
Bolton |76,430 |501,946 |578,376
Bradford |3,612,026 |0 |3,612,026
Brent |155,693 |986,294 |1,141,987
Bromley |24,264 |0 |24,264
Buckinghamshire |884,119 |0 |884,119
Bury |0 |300,468 |300,468
Calderdale |0 |709,517 |709,517
Cambridgeshire |25,253 |862,061 |887,314
Camden |1,438,340 |0 |1,438,340
Cardiff |8,119 |0 |8,119
Cheshire |0 |68,369 |68,369
Cleveland |93,483 |323,058 |416,541
Coventry |86,295 |1,781,970 |1,868,265
Croydon |431,698 |678,440 |1,110,138
Derbyshire |139,725 |964,843 |1,104,568
Devon |35,891 |10,850 |46,741
Doncaster MBC |0 |86,240 |86,240
Dorset |23,101 |0 |23,101
Dudley |776,954 |0 |776,954
Durham |0 |117,811 |117,811
Ealing |1,176,997 |0 |1,176,997
East Sussex |66,725 |113,948 |180,673
Enfield |423,923 |810,966 |1,234,889
Essex |24,258 |0 |24,258
Gateshead |25,803 |0 |25,803
Gloucestershire |68,213 |185,988 |254,201
Greenwich |845,944 |0 |845,944
Gwent |186,024 |52,321 |238,345
Hackney |147,091 |2,377,959 |2,525,050
Hammersmith and Fulham |449,738 |0 |449,738
Hampshire |0 |513,435 |513,435
Haringey |286,944 |1,804,773 |2,091,717
Harrow |27,286 |496,519 |523,805
Havering |35,875 |0 |35,875
Hereford and Worcester |177,430 |0 |177,430
Hertfordshire |29,319 |1,340,169 |1,369,488
Hillingdon |122,663 |203,954 |326,617
Hounslow |439,279 |624,548 |1,063,827
Humberside |17,187 |232,011 |249,198
Hyndburn |8,593 |0 |8,593
Islington |1,343,833 |0 |1,343,833
Kensington and Chelsea |0 |721,151 |721,151
Kent |174,943 |736,981 |911,924
Kingston |0 |83,838 |83,838
Kirklees |1,962,654 |0 |1,962,654
Lambeth |1,605,407 |0 |1,605,407
Lancashire |579,948 |3,319,356 |3,899,304
Leeds |118,702 |709,138 |827,840
Leicester |86,481 |0 |86,481
Leicestershire |165,605 |2,399,322 |2,564,927
Lewisham |1,069,847 |0 |1,069,847
Lincolnshire |18,640 |52,332 |70,972
Liverpool |127,746 |112,985 |240,731
London Boroughs Grants
Committee |22,454 |0 |22,454
Manchester |243,642 |1,937,597 |2,181,239
Merton |136,574 |415,668 |552,242
Middlesborough |9,245 |0 |9,245
Milton Keynes |24,704 |0 |24,704
Newcastle |0 |209,981 |209,981
Newham |304,556 |1,287,757 |1,592,313
Norfolk |121,671 |0 |121,671
North Tyneside |0 |95,879 |95,879
North Yorkshire |0 |44,675 |44,675
Northamptonshire |114,936 |324,943 |439,879
Nottingham |57,122 |0 |57,122
Nottinghamshire |427,113 |793,892 |1,221,005
Oldham |91,495 |1,595,492 |1,686,987
Oxford |10,009 |0 |10,009
Oxfordshire |0 |425,844 |425,844
Peterborough |9,345 |0 |9,345
Redbridge |218,881 |730,452 |949,333
Redditch |13,686 |0 |13,686
Richmond |0 |47,343 |47,343
Rochdale |27,298 |904,920 |932,218
Rotherham |320,381 |0 |320,381
Salford |75,910 |0 |75,910
Sandwell |0 |1,044,197 |1,044,197
Sheffield |180,465 |973,053 |1,153,518
Shropshire |90,052 |0 |90,052
Somerset |28,875 |0 |28,875
South Glamorgan |0 |344,337 |344,337
South Tyneside |99,071 |0 |99,071
South Yorkshire FCDA |12,328 |0 |12,328
Southampton |8,701 |0 |8,701
Southwark |710,672 |0 |710,672
St. Albans |28,070 |0 |28,070
St. Helens |15,367 |0 |15,367
Staffordshire |191,337 |560,176 |751,513
Stockport |0 |70,839 |70,839
Suffolk |11,121 |196,388 |207,509
Sunderland |0 |79,456 |79,456
Surrey |0 |247,145 |247,145
Sutton |71,781 |0 |71,781
Tameside |11,446 |327,957 |339,403
Tower Hamlets |120,688 |4,958,796 |5,079,484
Trafford |0 |210,477 |210,477
Wakefield |241,630 |0 |241,630
Walsall |1,198,599 |0 |1,198,599
Waltham Forest |23,080 |1,266,507 |1,289,587
Wandsworth |0 |1,112,048 |1,112,048
Warwickshire |762,421 |0 |762,421
West Glamorgan |244,221 |0 |244,221
West Midlands FCDA |56,191 |0 |56,191
West Sussex |0 |192,511 |192,511
West Yorkshire FCDA |51,142 |0 |51,142
Westminster |179,121 |1,217,389 |1,396,510
Wigan |57,627 |0 |57,627
Wiltshire |0 |109,967 |109,967
Wirral |0 |65,439 |65,439
Wolverhampton |1,185,096 |0 |1,185,096
Grant-maintained schools
and city technology colleges
Ash Green GM school |6,351 |0 |6,351
Beechview Middle GM
school |6,913 |0 |6,913
Bishop Challoner RG GM
school |5,298 |0 |5,298
Brentside High school |20,220 |0 |20,220
Brushwood Middle GM
school |4,676 |0 |4,676
Burntwood GM school |0 |50,820 |50,820
Castle Hall GM school |6,976 |0 |6,976
Castlefield GM school |70,257 |0 |70,257
Chadwell Heath GM
school |0 |13,583 |13,583
Claremont GM school |41,374 |0 |41,374
Copland Community
school |63,693 |0 |63,693
Deacons school |23,003 |0 |23,003
Desborough school |11,627 |0 |11,627
Djanogly City Technology
college |23,001 |0 |23,001
Dormers Wells Infants GM
school |45,021 |0 |45,021
Dormers Wells Junior GM
school |29,747 |0 |29,747
Drayton Manor school |25,275 |0 |25,275
Dunraven GM school |24,264 |0 |24,264
Francis Bacon school |13,143 |0 |13,143
George Dixon GM school |0 |78,054 |78,054
Graveney GM school |41,399 |0 |41,399
Greenford High school |55,656 |0 |55,656
Greenwood Dale school |23,828 |0 |23,828
Hall Green GM school |11,447 |0 |11,447
Hamilton Combined GM
school |42,936 |0 |42,936
Hendon GM school |33,515 |0 |33,515
Holly Hall GM school |19,715 |0 |19,715
Holy Trinity school |10,182 |0 |10,182
John Kelly Girls'
Technical college |11,491 |12,872 |24,363
London Oratory GM
school |27,868 |0 |27,868
Manor Park GM school |0 |9,755 |9,755
Marlborough GM school |0 |18,347 |18,347
Myton GM school |18,616 |0 |18,616
Northampton Boys GM school |11,615 |0 |11,615
Northolt High school |17,693 |0 |17,693
Prospect school |10,666 |0 |10,666
Queens Park GM school |75,825 |0 |75,825
Radcliffe GM school |11,627 |0 |11,627
Reading Girls school |11,472 |0 |11,472
Sacred Heart RC school |5,781 |0 |5,781
Salesian college |0 |15,526 |15,526
Small Heath school |62,991 |0 |62,991
St. Andrews RC GM
school |13,329 |0 |13,329
St. Luke's GM school |0 |1,508 |1,508
St. Marks West Essex GM
school |5,055 |0 |5,055
Stantonbury Campus |12,181 |0 |12,181
Stopsley High school |5,308 |0 |5,308
Stratford GM school |34,775 |0 |34,775
Surrey Square GM school |16,520 |0 |16,520
Wood End Infant GM
school |7,406 |0 |7,406
Wood End Junior GM
school |4,945 |0 |4,945
Wrenn GM school |25,199 |0 |25,199
Colleges of further
education
Arnold and Carlton college |17,964 |47,620 |65,584
Bexley FE college |9,782 |0 |9,782
Birmingham FE
Consortium |950,000 |0 |950,000
Cambridge Regional
college |15,165 |0 |15,165
Charles Keene college |210,000 |0 |210,000
City college Manchester |0 |72,798 |72,798
City and Islington college |52,000 |0 |52,000
Clarendon college |50,000 |0 |50,000
Coventry Technical college |26,539 |0 |26,539
Crawley college |4,158 |0 |4,158
Croydon college |36,752 |0 |36,752
Ealing Tertiary college |70,000 |0 |70,000
Enfield FE college |46,016 |0 |46,016
Greenhill college |130,000 |0 |130,000
Hackney Community
college |46,759 |0 |46,759
Hendon college |106,155 |0 |106,155
Huddersfield Technical
college |19,585 |0 |19,585
Kingsway college |25,000 |0 |25,000
Language and Literacy
Unit Southwark |59,766 |0 |59,766
Luton 6th Form college |0 |60,221 |60,221
Mancat |0 |30,079 |30,079
Newham FE college |160,000 |0 |160,000
Oaklands college |43,000 |0 |43,000
Park Lane college |43,478 |0 |43,478
Sandwell college |0 |36,928 |36,928
Sheffield college |130,000 |0 |130,000
South Nottingham college |17,490 |0 |17,490
Southgate college |49,741 |0 |49,741
St. Francis Xavier 6th
Form college |12,615 |8,631 |21,246
Tameside college of
Technology |32,352 |0 |32,352
Thomas Danby college |17,591 |0 |17,591
Tile Hill college |48,023 |0 |48,023
Tower Hamlets college |70,000 |0 |70,000
Uxbridge college |11,122 |0 |11,122
West Hertfordshire college |50,000 |0 |50,000
Wirral FE college |0 |10,121 |10,121
Ian Greer Associates
Mr. Campbell-Savours: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what items of correspondence were received by Ministers in his Department from Messrs Ian Greer Associates in the last month.
Female Prisoners
Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women with children under five years of age are in prison at the present time.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: 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 Mrs. Helen Jackson, dated 28 February 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about how many women with children under five years of age are in prison at the present time.
No information is held centrally on this subject. However, a census of mothers in prison is being undertaken by the Home Office Research and Planning Unit and the findings will provide information on the number of women with children under five years of age. It is expected that preliminary results will be available in June and a full report in September.
Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women are in Her Majesty's prisons in Britain currently one year ago, and five years ago; and what percentage this is of the total prison population.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: 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 Mrs. Helen Jackson, dated 28 February 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking how many women are in Her Majesty's prisons in Britain currently, one year ago, and five years ago; and what percentage this is of the total prison population.
The total number of women, and the percentages of the total prison population, on 17 February 1995, and at the end of January in the years 1994 and 1990 in England and Wales and Scotland are given in the attached table.
Column 544
The number of women in prison in England, Wales and Scotland,
and the percentage of the total prison population
Date |Number of women |Percentage of total
|prison population<3>
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17 February 1995 |2,117 |3.8
January 1994<1> |1,808 |3.5
January 1990<2> |1,811 |3.5
<1> The population for England and Wales is for 31 January 1994, and for Scotland
is for 28 January 1994.
<2> The population for England and Wales is for 31 January 1990, and for Scotland
is for 26 January 1990.
<3> Total population includes persons held in police cells.
Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of female prisoners and the percentage of the total figures in each European Union country.
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