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Written Answers to Questions
Monday 20 March 1995
HOME DEPARTMENT
Prisons
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the planned timetable for the extension of existing prisons with new house blocks; and what are his estimates of the cost of the programme.
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. Doug Hoyle, dated 20 March 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the timetable and cost of the programme currently underway to build additional houseblocks at existing prisons.
Construction of most of the houseblocks in question has now begun (the last two are programmed to start in May this year). Although completion dates vary, it is planned that six of the new blocks will be ready for use by early 1996, and the remaining ten will become available for occupation during the course of the 1996 97 financial year. The overall cost of the programme is £115 million, including £31 million for ancillary facilities needed to support the increases in population at the establishments concerned. When complete, the programme will deliver 2,000 places.
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the net operating cost per prisoner place for each of the prisons and remand centres excluding contracted-out prisons in England and Wales from 1 April 1994 to 31 March 1995. [14571]
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. George Howarth, dated 20 March 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the net operating cost per prisoner place for 1994 95 for each of the prisons and remand centres in England and Wales, excluding contracted out prisons.
Figures for 1994 95 will be published later this year in the Prison Service Annual Report for 1994 95. Figures for 1993 94 have been published in Section A of Part Two of the Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts, a copy of which is in the House of Commons Library.
Private Sector Contracts
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the names of those companies who have won contracts to run court or prison escort services; and what was the cost of those contracts in each case.
Mr. Michael Forsyth: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison
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Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given. Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. George Howarth, dated 20 March 1995:The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about companies who have won contracts to run court or prison escort services and the cost of the contracts.
Four contracts have been awarded for prisoner escort and custody services. The names of the contractors and the estimated cost of the contracts over five years at time of award, are as follows:
Area 3--Securicor Custodial Services Ltd:
£96 million
Area 4--Group 4 Court Services Ltd:
£47 million
Area 6--Group 4 Court Services Ltd:
£69 million
Area 7--Group 4 Court Services Ltd:
£41 million
The cost of the contracts for Areas 3 and 7, which are already in operation is 25 per cent below the cost of previous arrangements. This represents a saving of £10 million a year. The cost of the contracts for Areas 4 and 6 is estimated to be 15 per cent below the cost of previous arrangements. This represents a saving of £13 million a year.
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the companies which have won contracts to run contracted-out prison establishments; and what was the cost of those contracts in each case.
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. George Howarth, dated 20 March 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the companies who have won contracts to run contracted out prisons and the cost of the contracts.
Four contracts have been awarded for contracted out prisons. The names of the contractors and the estimated cost of the contracts over five years at time of award, are as follows:
Wolds Prison--Group 4 Remand Services Ltd:
£21.5 million
Blakenhurst Prison--UK Detention Services Ltd:
£57 million
Doncaster Prison--Premier Prison Services Ltd:
£66 million
Buckley Hall Prison--Group 4 Prison Services Ltd:
£33 million
The cost of these prisons is 15--25 per cent below the cost of comparable public sector establishments. This represents a saving of £5 million a year from the four prisons already under private management.
Key Performance Indicators
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the latest figures for the key performance indicators for each prison from 1 April 1994 to the latest available date.
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.
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Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Doug Hoyle dated 20 March 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the latest figures for performance against the Prison Service's key performance indicators from 1 April 1994 to the latest available date.The available information is set out in the enclosed tables. I should explain the following points:
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KPI 1 escapes: |the attached figures show the
|number of escapes from each prison,
|including escapes from escort
|outside the prison (but excluding
|prisoners who were immediately
|recaptured) from 1 April to 31
|December 1994 inclusive.
KPI 2 assaults: |the attached figures show the
|number of offences of assault by
|prisoners on staff, prisoners and
|others which are proved in
|disciplinary proceedings and which
|result in a punishment being
|awarded, and the rate of assaults as a
|proportion of the average population
|(expressed at an annual rate), from 1
|April to 31 December 1994
|inclusive.
KPI 3 overcrowding: |no prisoners have been held three to
|a cell in units of accommodation
|certified for one person during the
|current financial year.
KPI 4 sanitation: |96 per cent. of prisoners had access
|to sanitation 24 hours a day at the
|end of January 1995. We are on
|course to provide all prisoners with
|access to sanitation at all times by
|the end of February 1996.
KPI 5 purposeful activity: |the attached figures show the
|average number of hours a week
|which prisoners spent in regime
|activities in the period 1 April to 31
|December inclusive.
KPI 6 time unlocked: |the attached figures show the
|average number of hours which
|prisoners were unlocked on
|weekdays at the end of January
|1995.
KPI 7 visits: |all establishments have provided
|prisoners with the opportunity to
|exceed minimum visiting
|entitlements throughout 1994-95.
KPI 8 cost per place: |information about the average cost
|per prisoner place for individual
|establishments is not available in a
|meaningful form until after the end
|of the financial year, because of
|variations in the phasing of
|expenditure in-year. Figures for
|1993-94 are published in the Prison
|Service's Annual Report for that
|year, a copy of which is in the
|Library of the House.
Young offender institutions
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
Closed |Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Aylesbury |0 |71 |43.5 |26.5 |9.3
Castington |0 |51 |24.6 |24.3 |9.3
Deerbolt |4 |57 |19.8 |25.1 |10.8
Dover |0 |29 |14.5 |23.4 |9.2
Glen Parva |2 |127 |22.2 |22.5 |9.0
Guy's Marsh |0 |14 |10.2 |42.0 |13.3
Hollesley Bay<1> (Warren Hill) |0 |29 |11.6 |27.4 |8.0
Huntercombe |0 |29 |17.4 |26.4 |10.4
Onley |2 |126 |35.8 |24.0 |12.0
Portland |0 |28 |10.1 |29.6 |10.7
Stoke Heath |1 |44 |22.2 |28.9 |12.5
Swinfen Hall |0 |13 |9.6 |30.8 |10.1
Werrington |9 |62 |77.3 |42.3 |13.5
Wetherby |7 |26 |24.4 |37.8 |12.0
<1> Includes Hollesley Bay (open prison) for assaults.
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
|Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Open YOIs
Hatfield |- |12 |9.9 |38.4 |13.3
Prescoed<1> |- |- |- |43.2 |-
Thorn Cross |- |20 |15.9 |46.4 |12.5
Remand Centres
Brinsford |3 |94 |27.5 |23.7 |9.9
Feltham |0 |172 |28.8 |32.3 |8.0
Hindley |1 |59 |27.9 |22.6 |8.5
Lancaster Farms |0 |63 |24.3 |23.6 |12.0
Low Newton |0 |38 |20.8 |23.0 |8.5
Moorland |0 |114 |33.0 |25.2 |10.5
Northallerton |0 |31 |25.4 |23.8 |10.3
Reading |0 |36 |27.3 |27.0 |10.5
Rochester |2 |53 |29.3 |30.6 |11.5
<1>Precoed appears under Usk for assaults and time unlocked.
Female establishments
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
|Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Local
Holloway |5 |127 |34.3 |20.2 |9.5
Pucklechurch |0 |32 |67.7 |17.8 |12.0
Closed
Bullwood Hall |1 |16 |17.6 |31.1 |12.5
Cookham Wood |0 |20 |18.0 |30.0 |10.5
New Hall |3 |41 |31.6 |28.3 |12.0
Styal |1 |28 |16.2 |35.1 |13.3
Open
Askham Grange |- |1 |1.3 |48.9 |24.0
Drake Hall |- |3 |1.8 |37.1 |24.0
East Sutton Park |- |0 |0 |37.1 |24.0
Local Prisons/Adult Remands
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
|Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Bedford |1 |24 |10.5 |22.9 |10.0
Belmarsh |0 |75 |13.5 |15.9 |11.2
Birmingham |1 |73 |12.7 |20.9 |7.2
Blakenhurst |0 |77 |16.4 |26.2 |14.0
Bristol |0 |21 |6.3 |23.3 |11.8
Brixton |1 |68 |15.1 |19.4 |8.8
Bullingdon |0 |77 |16.6 |24.1 |10.5
Canterbury |0 |8 |4.2 |24.9 |12.0
Cardiff |0 |46 |14.9 |24.5 |11.9
Chelmsford |1 |25 |9.2 |16.1 |7.5
Doncaster<1> |1 |132 |36.2 |- |12.0
Dorchester |0 |4 |2.7 |21.4 |10.3
Durham |2 |31 |6.8 |19.3 |10.5
Elmley |1 |47 |10.3 |23.0 |10.5
Exeter |1 |31 |10.5 |22.4 |9.0
Gloucester |0 |30 |16.1 |22.0 |9.5
Highdown |0 |60 |14.0 |21.3 |11.0
Holme House |2 |31 |6.8 |16.3 |9.0
Hull |1 |68 |23.1 |21.0 |12.0
Leeds |0 |118 |15.2 |15.8 |7.0
Leicester |1 |36 |14.3 |23.0 |10.0
Lewes |1 |25 |10.0 |18.2 |8.2
Lincoln |2 |35 |7.7 |20.3 |11.2
Liverpool |2 |55 |6.1 |17.7 |7.2
Manchester |1 |56 |9.0 |19.9 |13.1
Norwich |1 |41 |14.7 |22.4 |9.0
Pentonville |2 |68 |12.6 |28.0 |10.5
Preston |1 |48 |13.0 |19.1 |6.5
Shrewsbury |1 |26 |12.7 |21.9 |10.0
Swansea |4 |27 |17.2 |22.1 |12.0
Wandsworth |0 |112 |16.8 |24.2 |10.0
Winchester |0 |29 |9.9 |22.1 |7.5
Wolds |0 |39 |16.4 |22.5 |13.8
Woodhill |0 |81 |20.8 |24.8 |12.0
Wormwood Scrubs |0 |38 |6.3 |22.9 |11.2
<1>Doncaster opened June 1994. A comparable figure is not available for regime
hours. Figure for time unlocked is agreed performance as specified in the
establishment contract.
Performance against key targets
Dispersals
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
Closed |Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Frankland |0 |40 |12.7 |20.3 |10
Full Sutton |0 |53 |13.1 |25.1 |10.5
Long Lartin |0 |29 |10.9 |22.4 |11
Parkhurst |0 |30 |17.5 |19.1 |10.3
Wakefield |0 |24 |4.6 |21.0 |11.4
Whitemoor |6 |90 |25.5 |21.3 |10.3
Category B
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
Closed |Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Albany |0 |15 |4.8 |26.0 |11.3
Blundeston |0 |25 |8.7 |23.6 |12.0
Dartmoor |3 |29 |7.4 |24.4 |10.0
Garth |0 |19 |5.0 |20.2 |9.1
Gartree |0 |8 |3.9 |28.9 |12.3
Grendon |0 |4 |5.3 |28.8 |13.0
Kingston |0 |2 |1.9 |26.5 |12.5
Maidstone |0 |23 |6.7 |22.0 |11.4
Nottingham |1 |8 |5.2 |26.0 |12.0
Swaleside |1 |41 |10.9 |23.4 |10.0
Open Prisons (male)
KPI 2: Assaults
|KPI 6:
|Percentage|KPI 5: |Time
|KPI 1: |of average|Regime |Unlocked
Closed |Escapes |Number |population|Hours |(Weekdays)
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Ford |- |5 |1.5 |37.5 |13.3
Hewell Grange |- |1 |0.8 |42.6 |24.0
Hollesley Bay<1> |- |- |- |39.0 |24.0
Kirkham |- |1 |0.3 |49.0 |13.5
Leyhill |- |0 |0 |40.7 |24.0
Morton Hall |- |2 |1.7 |47.3 |24.0
North Sea Camp |- |0 |0 |62.8 |16.5
Rudgate |- |1 |0.5 |47.7 |14.0
Spring Hill |- |1 |0.7 |39.8 |16.0
Standford Hill |- |2 |0.7 |42.3 |14.5
Sudbury/Foston |- |1 |0.3 |45.7 |14.5
<1>Hollesley Bay: assault figures appears under Warren Hill.
Prisoners
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average number of hours prisoners spent out of cell for each of the last 20 years.
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. Doug Hoyle, dated 20 March 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the average number of hours prisoners spend out of cell for each of the last 20 years.
At the end of March 1994, prisoners were spending an average of 10.6 hours out of cell on weekdays. In January 1995 (the latest available information), this figure had increased to 11.2 hours. It is not possible to provide figures for each of the last 20 years, as information on the average number of hours prisoners spend out of cell was not collected before April 1993, when the Prison Service became an executive agency. Nor is it possible to provide average figures for 1993 94 and 1994 95. The information which is routinely collected and monitored relates to the number of prisoners unlocked for at least 12 hours on weekdays, which is one of the Service's key performance indicators, not the average time prisoners are unlocked.
Young Prisoners
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of recorded incidents of self-harm among 15- year-old boys and girls by individual penal institution in each of the last 10 years.
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. George Howarth, dated 20 March 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of recorded incidents of self harm among 15 year old boys and girls in each penal institution in each of the last 10 years.
I regret that the information you have requested is not collected centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Illegal Immigration
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what measures he proposes to take to control, at the channel ports of entry, illegal immigration from the rest of the European Union into the United Kingdom;
(2) what measures he proposes to take to control further illegal immigration.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: Immigration officers apply a document check to all passengers arriving at Dover, and examine non-EEA nationals to assess their admissibility under the immigration rules. In addition, immigration officers conduct surveillance on car and freight traffic to combat clandestine immigration by concealment in vehicles and containers. The number of clandestine entrants detected in the Dover area increased from 256 in 1993 to 379 in 1994.
My right hon. and learned Friend recently announced measures, including additional resources for the
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immigration and nationality department and the immigration appellate authorities, aimed at speeding up the processing of asylum applications.We have been examining further ways in which the system of immigration control can be made more effective and hope to bring forward new measures shortly.
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures he proposes to instigate within the Council of Ministers further to control illegal immigration into the European Union through all European Union ports of entry.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The Government strongly support measures to combat illegal immigration into the European Union and are participating actively in a number of measures currently under consideration in the third pillar. They do not at present have any separate initiatives of their own to propose.
Wandsworth Prison
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports he has received from the governor of Wandsworth prison in respect of the background details of the suicides that have taken place in Wandsworth prison in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
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. Tom Cox, dated 20 March 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about what reports he has received from the governor of Wandsworth prison in respect of the background details of the suicides that have taken place in Wandsworth prison in each of the last three years. Each death in custody is always the subject of an internal Prison Service investigation, the results of which are then reported to Prison Service headquarters. Each of the six suicides which have occurred at Wandsworth prison in the past three years was reported in this way. Ministers are not routinely briefed on the content of these investigation reports.
Mr. Abeey Dykes
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to deport Mr. Abeey Dykes following his conviction. [14430]
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The question of deportation will be considered in the light of whatever sentence is imposed by the court.
Street Watch Schemes
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a list of all the street watch schemes, by police force area, which have been registered with his Department. [14368]
Mr. Nicholas Baker: It is not a requirement to register street watch schemes with the Home Office.
I have today placed in the Library a list of all the street watch schemes, by police force area, which are known to us.
We are working closely with forces in England and Wales, and Crime Concern, for the development of street
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watch. Where they are established, street watch schemes have been very successful in reducing crime.Civil Servants
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of civil servants employed by (a) his Department, (b) the agencies under his Department's responsibility, and (c) public and other bodies under his Department's responsibility for each year since 1979, divided into (i) full-time equivalents, (ii) overtime, (iii) casuals and (iv) other; and whether he will also provide for each year his estimates of (A) civil service job reductions due to privatisations, (B) civil service job reductions due to contracting out, (C) civil service job reductions resulting from other transfer of responsibilities, (D) the total of all other staff undertaking work for his Department or its agencies without being categorised as civil servants, including external consultants, researchers, agency secretarial staff and staff substitution and (E) total manpower expenditures, in 1994 prices. [14765]
Mr. Howard: The civil service covers the permanent staff of central Government Departments and next steps agencies. The staff of other bodies are outside the civil service.
The annual publication ` Civil Service Statistics' gives details of the number of civil servants employed by my Department and its agencies, including full-time equivalent staff and casuals, from 1993 onwards, and of staff leaving the civil service.
` Public Bodies' , published annually since 1982, contains staffing information for those bodies not covered by ` Civil Service Statistics' .
Details of running costs and civil service pay bill for my Department can be found in annexe 3 of my Department's annual report (CM 2508). Annexe 4 gives details of overtime from 1989 90 onwards. Copies of all of these publications are available in the Library. The remaining information sought could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Polling and Public Survey Organisations
Mr. Donohue: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the employment of polling or public survey organisations by his Department during the current and previous financial years, on the organisations employed by his Department, on the values of individual contracts for these services, on the total amounts of money spent and on the purposes of the research undertaken by these organisations. [14514]
Mr. Howard: The polling and public survey organisations employed by the Home Department since 1 April 1993 are in the following list, together with the purpose of research undertaken by those organisations. The fee paid to successful contractors is not shown as this is regarded by the Central Statistical Office as a matter of commercial confidentiality. The total amount of money spent was £661, 000.
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|Organisation |Purpose of Research
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1. |Carrick James |Cycle helmets
|Fieldwork: |April 1993
|Purpose: |Survey of young people
|between the ages of 10-16
|years in Great Britain
|regarding cycle riding,
|cycle helmet wearing and
|advertising recall.
2. |Cragg Ross Dawson
|Development Research
|Fieldwork: |April 1993
|Purpose: |Reactions for new
|advertising campaign on the
|views of Specials.
3. |Harris Research Centre |Eleven discussion groups
|plus an interview survey of
|1,200 women and ethnic
|minorities in England,
|Scotland and Wales.
|Fieldwork: |June-July 1993
|Purpose: |To explore reasons why
|potentially eligible women
|and members of ethnic
|minority groups might wish
|or not wish to apply for
|work as firefighters.
4. |Sample Surveys |Car Crime Advertising
|Fieldwork: |September 1993
|Purpose: To examine recall of car
|crime campaign and
|changing attitudes to car
|crime.
5. |GFK Marketing |Smoke Alarms Home Audit
|Services
|Fieldwork: |September 1993
|Purpose: |To measure smoke alarm
|ownership and maintenance
|procedures.
6. |OPCS |Omnibus Survey questions
|on public experiences of
|and attitudes towards the
|police. 2,000 adults in
|England and Wales.
|Fieldwork: | October 1993
|Purpose: |To assess public response
|to the police service
|Quality of Service
|Programme.
7. |BMBR |Special Constables
|Recruitment advertising
|research
|Fieldwork: | November 1993
|Purpose: |To examine awareness of
|the attitudes towards
|Special Constabulary,
|including recent recruitment
|advertising.
8. |Research Surveys of |Witness intimidation:
|Great Britain |Strategies for prevention
|Fieldwork: |November-December
|1993
|Purpose: |One public survey was
|carried out by Research
|Surveys of Great Britain to
|obtain information on
|people's experience of
|intimidation. (Another
|survey was done by Home
|Office Staff).
9. |BMRB |Smoke Alarms Post
|Advertising Research
|Fieldwork: |January 1994
|Purpose: |Survey of adults in England
|and Wales regarding smoke
|alarm ownership and
|maintenance carried out
|on them.
10. |Reflexions Market |Special Creative
|Research Ltd. |Development
|Fieldwork: |February 1994
|Purpose: |A survey of a number of
|adults in England asking
|the opinions of new
|advertising executions for
|the specials; including
|perceived target audience,
|communication, motivation
|potential (to joining the
|specials), style and tone of
|voice of advertising.
11. |BMBR |Smoke Alarms
|Fieldwork: |February 1994
|Purpose: |Post advertising campaign
|survey to measure fire
|precautions in general.
12. |BMRB |Specials Advertising
|Evaluation
|Fieldwork: |March 1994
|Purpose: |Awareness of advertising,
|knowledge, awareness of
|specials.
13. |BMRB |International Commercial
|Crime Survey
|Fieldwork: |March-April 1994
|Purpose: |Information gathered will
|help development of
|national and local
|government strategies
|for crime prevention. All
|Businesses could benefit;
|reduction in crime should
|also benefit customers.
14. |SCPR |Survey of offenders on
|probation.
|Fieldwork: |April 1994
|Purpose: |The survey aimed to give a
|picture of the types of
|offender on probation and
|to provide quantitative
|information on the
|workings of the probation
|service.
15. |NOP |Assessing the expandable
|side-handled baton
|Fieldwork: |May 1994
|Cost: | £3,888
|Purpose: |Part of a project to assess
|the merits of expandable
|side handled batons
|involved a face-to-face
|survey to assess the
|attitudes of the public
|towards the acceptability
|of the new baton.
16. |Tim Grosvenor |Fifteen discussion groups
|Associates |amongst residents of five
| areas currently served by
|`Parish Special
|Constables.'
|Fieldwork: | May-June 1994
|Purpose: |To assess public reactions
|to the Parish Special
|Constables initiative.
17. |NOP Fieldwork: Purpose: |Partners against Crime Campaign September-October 1994 To assess level of support for local community crime prevention and Neighbourhood Watch
18. |Public Attitude Surveys |Immigration and
|Ltd. |Nationality User Survey
|Fieldwork: |October 1994
|Purpose: |People in the Granada TV
|region were surveyed on
|the qualitative survey of
|applicants and
|representatives to establish
|the most important quality
|of service aspects from a
|users prospective.
|Concentrates on issues such
|as provision of information,
|speed of response, clarity of
|correspondence, etc. if not
|concerned with users'
|perception of the decision.
19. |OPCS |Census of mothers in prison
|Fieldwork: |November-December
| 1994
|Purpose: |A survey of imprisoned
|mothers to determine their
|numbers, and arrangements
|for the care of their
|children.
20. |SCPR |Survey of 500 persons
|living in the London area
|and currently eligible to
|apply for United Kingdom
|citizenship. Applicants and
|non-applicants questioned
|about their reasons for
|applying/not applying.
|Fieldwork: |February-April 1995
|Purpose: |To assist workload planning
|by B4 Division of
|Immigration and
|Nationality Department.
21. |RSGB |Omnibus Survey questions
|on attitudes to gambling
|and casinos.
|Fieldwork: |February 1995
|Cost: | £3,000
|Purpose: |To provide background
|information for a review of
|current policy on gambling.
Commission for Racial Equality
Sir Ivan Lawrence:: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the next quinquennial review of the Commission for Racial Equality is due to take place. [15446]
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The quinquennial review of the Commission for Racial Equality is now beginning and it will continue into the summer.
Publicity and Publications
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total expenditure of (a) all forms of publicity and (b) all publications and pamphlets produced for his Department and for all the agencies and public bodies for which his Department is responsible for each year since 1979, including the budgeted figure for 1995 96, (i) including and (ii) excluding privatisation-related expenditures and expressed in 1994 prices; and if he will supply information for the period from 1 April 1993 to 1 March 1995 showing (1) the nature and (2) the purpose of each publicity campaign and of each publication involving the expenditure of more than £50,000. [14630]
Mr. Howard [holding answer 17 March 1995]: Publicity campaigns and publications involving expenditure of more than £50.000 between 1 April 1993 and 1 March 1995 were as follows:
a) television advertising to encourage home owners to purchase, install and maintain smoke alarms;
b) press advertising to encourage applications to the accelerated promotion scheme for graduates in the police;
c) television and press advertising and the publication of brochures to recruit more special constables;
d) television advertising to encourage people to register to vote;
e) press advertising to encourage the public to renew passports in good time;
f) press advertising to encourage people to become members of boards of visitors;
g) press advertising to encourage applications to the Prison Service accelerated promotion scheme;
h) the production of leaflets to support the "Make a Difference" initiative to encourage more people to undertake voluntary work; i) the production of a booklet advising on protecting people and property against bombs;
j) television, radio and press advertising and publications about car crime prevention;
k) publication of the Citizenship Foundation pack "You, Me, Us" designed to help primary school children develop their moral and social responsibility reasoning;
l) publication of the home security leaflet and poster "Beat the Burglar";
m) publication of the truck theft leaflet, poster and sticker "A load on Your Mind";
n) publication of "Your Practical Guide to Crime Prevention" advising on security on a wide range of subjects;
o) television, radio and press advertising to encourage the general public to get involved in preventing crime in their community and publication of the booklet "Partners Against Crime"; and p) publication of the leaflet "Domestic Violence--Don't Stand For It" directed at victims of domestic violence.
The other information requested could not be provided without disproportionate cost.
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Transport Accidents (Legal Process)
Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he or his Ministers have had with the Attorney- General, the Lord Chancellor and the Transport Secretary on reforms to the legal process of inquiry and potential prosecution following transport accidents leading to injury or death.
Mr. Nicholas Baker [holding answer 15 March 1995]: Discussions between Ministers are confidential. However, a Home Office-led interdepartmental group of officials was established in November 1990 to consider the relationship between coroners' inquests and public inquiries into disasters. Its membership included officials from the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Department of Transport.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Civil Servants
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total number of civil servants employed by (a) his Department, (b) the agencies under his Department's responsibility and (c) public and other bodies under his Department's responsibility, for each year since 1979, divided into (i) full-time equivalents, (ii) overtime, (iii) casuals and (iv) other; and whether he will also provide for each year his estimates of (A) civil service jop reductions due to privatisations, (B) civil service job reductions due to contracting out, (C) civil service job reductions resulting from other transfer of responsibilities, (D) the total of all other staff undertaking work for his Department or its agencies without being categorised as civil servants, including external consultants, researchers, agency secretarial staff substitution and (E) total manpower expenditures, in 1994 prices. [14764]
Mr. Ian Taylor: The civil service covers the permanent staff of central Government Departments and next steps agencies. The staff of other bodies are outside the civil service.
The annual publication "Civil Service Statistics" gives details of the number of civil servants employed by my Department and its agencies, including full-time equivalent staff and casuals--from 1993 onwards--and of staff leaving the civil service.
"Public Bodies", published annually since 1982, contains staffing information for those bodies not covered by "Civil Services Statistics".
Details of running costs and the civil service paybill for my Department can be found in the tables on pages 97 and 98 of my Department's annual report (CM 2804). The table on page 99 gives details of overtime from 1989 90 onwards.
Copies of all of these publications are available in the Library of the House.
The remaining information sought could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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