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Asylum Seekers
Mr. Marlow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 22 January, Official Report, column 56, if he will make a statement on the outcome of the cases of Tamil asylum seekers involved in the incident of 13 February 1989. [13095]
Mr. Kirkhope: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave him on 22 January 1996, Official Report, column 56. If he would care to provide further details of the incident he has in mind to enable the cases to be identified, I will arrange for inquiries to be made.
Prison Population
Mr. George Howarth:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the projected prison population for England and Wales for (a) 30 June 1996, (b) 30 June 1997, (c) 30 June 1998 and (d) 30 June 1999. [13279]
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Miss Widdecombe:
Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. George Howarth, dated 5 February 1996:
Mr. Straw:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the planned expenditure on the Prison Service for (a) capital and (b) running costs in (i) 1996-97, (ii) 1997-98 and (iii) 1998-99. [13386]
Miss Widdecombe:
Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A.J. Pearson to Mr. Jack Straw, dated 5 February 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the planned expenditure on the Prison Service for the next three years.
Miss Widdecombe
[holding answer 30 January 1996]: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. George Howarth, dated 5 February 1996:
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Some funds are held centrally and allocated for operational difficulties.
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The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking for the projected prison population of England and Wales for 1996-99.
The latest long term prison population projections were published in Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/95 'Projections of the Long Term Trends in the Prison Population to 2002', a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. The next update of the long term projections is due to be published in spring 1996.
Revised short term projections that cover a period of 18 months were produced in October 1995, based on an assessment of current trends. The population is expected to be about 52,700 by June 1996.
Mr. George Howarth:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give figures for each prison establishment showing (a) the projected current expenditure for 1995-96, (b) the projected current expenditure for 1996-97 and (c) both the percentage and absolute change in each case. [12766]
The provision agreed in the 1995 Public Expenditure Survey is given below.
The figures shown are for conventional capital funding. We are now exploring the scope for private finance of capital investment.
1996-97 1997-98 1998-99
Current 1,404 1,389 1,433
Capital 117 110 112
Total 1,521 1,499 1,545
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about projected current expenditure for each prison establishment.
The information, by area, is given in the attached table.
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