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Closed Circuit Television (Wales)

Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many schools in Wales applied for funding under the closed circuit television challenge competition; and what percentage of them were successful. [38879]

Mr. Maclean [holding answer 22 July 1996]: There were 40 bids from Wales which included schools either solely or as an element. Eight of these--20 per cent.--were successful.

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Mr. Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money his Department contributed towards each of the projects in Wales which were successful in the closed circuit television competition this year; and what percentage this was of the total cost of each project. [38877]

Mr. Maclean: [holding answer 22 July 1996]: The information is contained in the table.

Home Office CCTV challenge competition 1996-97 Winners in Wales

Name of bid	Amount awarded (£)	Percentage of total	Total capital cost of scheme
Aberystwyth town centre and station	62,000	47.7	130,000
Bryn Hafren comprehensive school, Barry (10)	26,620	75	35,493
Glan Ely high school, Cardiff(10)	25,200	75	33,600
Llanrumney high school, Cardiff(10)	27,651	75	36,868
Cardiff high school(10)	21,546	75	28,728
Cardigan town centre	31,500	48.5	65,000
Derwendeg primary school, Caerphilly(10)	4,000	66.7	6,000
Llandudno town centre	130,500	37.3	350,000
Llangefni town centre, Anglesey	27,000	49.1	55,000
Gurnos housing estate, hospital, shops, school and two business estates, Merthyr Tydfil	217,500	61.3	355,000
Blaenbaglan primary school, Neath and Port Talbot (10)	12,072	75	16,096
Dwr-Y-Felin lower school, Neath and Port Talbot (10)	10,538	75	14,051
Penarth town centre	59,000	47.6	124,000
Swansea enterprise park	71,500	47.67	150,000
Total	726,627	51.9	1,399,836

(10) Welsh Office contirbuted funds for these schemes.

Mr. Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he took to inform eligible organisations in Wales of the closed circuit television challenge competition; what intermediaries were used in the information and distribution process; who received the information; what percentage of those receiving the information participated in the challenge competition; and what percentage of them were successful. [38878]

Mr. Maclean [holding answer 22 July 1996]: The closed circuit television challenge competition 1996-97 was officially launched at a press conference on 22 November 1995, which received wide coverage. On the same day, copies of the bidding guidance were sent to all chief executives of county councils and district councils; to all chief officers of police and clerks to police authorities; and to all chief probation officers in England and Wales. Copies were also sent to crime prevention

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officers in every police force area, and to everyone who submitted a bid to the previous CCTV challenge competition. Further copies were sent to anyone who requested one and we are aware that others were distributed by local copying. No complete list of recipients were kept. There were a total of 64 bids from Wales; 8.1 per cent. of the total number of bids received. Fourteen of these were successful 5.4 per cent. of all successful bids.

Street Robbery

Mr. Bernie Grant: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the arrest and conviction rates for street robbery for each quarter from 1994 to June 1996 for the Metropolitan police area. [38868]

Mr. Maclean [holding answer 22 July 1996]: The available information on arrests has been supplied by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and is given in the following table. Information on conviction rates for street robberies is not available.

Arrests for street robbery in the Metropolitan police district

Year	Number of arrests
1994
Quarter 1	583
Quarter 2	591
Quarter 3	683
Quarter 4	753
1995
Quarter 1	784
Quarter 2	1,214
Quarter 3	1,274
Quarter 4	1,260
1996
Quarter 1	1,109
Quarter 2	1,138

Recidivism

Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the most recently available numbers of prisoners reconvicted within (a) two years, (b) four years and (c) five years of discharge from each (i) adult female local prison, (ii) adult female open prison, (iii) female closed training prison and (iv) female open and closed young offender institution; [38752]

(2) if he will list the most recently available number of prisoners reconvicted within (a) two years, (b) four years and (c) five years of discharge from each (i) local prison, (ii) open prison, (iii) dispersal prison, (iv) category B prison and (v) young offender institution. [38745]

Miss Widdecombe [holding answer 22 July 1996]: Responsibility for these matters 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. George Howarth, dated 23 July 1996:

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Questions about reconvicted prisoners.
I attach tables in reply to points (a) of each of these Questions. Information in reply to points (b) and (c) is not available at this time. I will write to you again giving you the information in the near future.

With reference to (a), the most recent available information relates to a sample of prisoners discharged from prison during 1992. The information available is as follows:
Table 1: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Local prison regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (11)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Bedford	41 (17)	51
Belmarsh	43 (8)	325
Birmingham	54 (10)	183
Bristol	59 (13)	112
Brixton	34 (11)	149
Bullingdon/Oxford	31 13)	98
Cardiff	62 (11)	123
Chelmsford	37 (13)	65
Durham	49 (9)	199
Elmley	61 (17)	61
Exeter	47 (10)	133
Holloway*	37 (6)	289
Hull	45 (11)	112
Leeds	63 (8)	209
Leicester	53 (12)	109
Lewes	63 (12)	92
Lincoln	45 (10)	125
Liverpool	57 (7)	299
Newhall*	49 (11)	85
Norwich	41 (12)	116
Pentonville	45 (7)	414
Preston	56 (12)	106
Pucklechurch*	51 (11)	83
Shrewsbury	65 (14)	66
Swansea	57 (15)	71
Wandsworth	40 (6)	590
Winchester	54 (11)	123
Wormwood Scrubs	49 (7)	380
Total	49 (2)	5,100




(11) The range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, ie. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.




Table 2: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Open prison regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (12)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Askham Grange*	28 (7)	149
Drake Hall*	30 (5)	410
East Sutton*	32 (8)	137
Ford	20 (6)	354
Grendon/Spring Hill	27 (11)	132
Hewell Grange	28 (13)	92
High Point	38 (18)	53
Kirkham	37 (7)	376
Leyhill	25 (9)	172
Morton Hall	41 (12)	109
North Sea Camp	31 (9)	132
Rudgate	29 (8)	188
Standford Hill	29 (8)	252
Sudbury	35 (7)	353
Total	31 (2)	2,927




(12) The range of chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.

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Table 3: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Closed Cat B regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figure in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (13)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Dartmoor	56 (12)	108
Garth	60 (13)	64
Maidstone	35 (11)	62
Total	46 (5)	506




(13) The range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.




Table 4: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Closed Cat C regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (14)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Acklington	51 (8)	264
Aldington	34 (15)	69
Ashwell	37 (11)	158
Brockhill	42 (12)	115
Bulwood Hall*	43 (11)	80
Camp Hill	52 (8)	218
Channings Wood	43 (9)	185
Downview	23 (13)	69
Erlestoke	31 (15)	85
Everthorpe	70 (11)	71
Featherstone	40 (1)	165
Haverigg	64 (8)	186
High Point	43 (6)	394
Lancaster	56 (14)	86
Latchmere House	25 (13)	71
Lindholme	51 (7)	368
Littlehey	35 (11)	114
The Mount	29 (9)	147
Northeye	43 (12)	136
Norwich	47 (15)	76
Ranby	54 (8)	254
Risley	24 (9)	106
Rochester	43 (14)	57
Send	38 (15)	59
Shepton Mallet	48 (13)	91
Stafford	55 (6)	422
Stocken	39 (12)	115
Styal*	54 (9)	136
The Verne	36 (9)	194
Wayland	22 (11)	92
Wellingborough	39 (13)	83
Whatton	14 (6)	96
Wymott	59 (6)	442
Total	47 (2)	5,456




(14) This range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.

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Table 5: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from closed YOI regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (15)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Castington	67 (10)	82
Deerbolt	82 (4)	461
Dover	63 (7)	209
Feltham	60 (7)	227
Glen Parva	72 (5)	358
Hollesley Bay	66 (9)	127
Huntercombe/Finnamore	63 (7)	220
Moorland	81 (10)	77
Northallerton	72 (8)	138
Onley	73 (6)	298
Portland	76 (6)	225
Stoke Heath	78 (7)	170
Total	71 (2)	2,782




(15) This range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, ie. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.




Table 6: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Open YOI regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to change (16)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Drake Hall*	50 (13)	60
Guys Marsh	74 (9)	107
Hatfield	62 (8)	148
Huntercombe/Finnamore	53 (10)	101
Thorn Cross	67 (7)	187
Usk/Precoed	67 (11)	70
Total	64 (4)	727




(16) This range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.

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Table 7: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from short sentence YOI regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary accordingly to chance. (17)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Eastwood Park	76 (6)	211
Hollesley Bay	66 (8)	163
Werrington	66 (11)	78
Wetherby	72 (5)	340
Total	72 (3)	792




(17) This range for change variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.




Table 8: Reconviction rates within two years of discharge in 1992 for prisoners discharged from Juvenile YOI regimes. Female establishments are asterisked. Figures in brackets give the range above and below the estimate that rates are likely to vary according to chance (18)

Establishment	Two year percentage reconvicted	Number sampled
Feltham	82 (5)	186
Kirklevington	96 (4)	118
Onley	89 (4)	271
Werrington	90 (4)	261
Total	89 (2)	836




(18) This range for chance variation is based on a 95 per cent. confidence interval, i.e. the interval in which the true value is likely to lie for 19 out of 20 occasions. Figures are not given where there are fewer than 50 prisoners in the sample for an establishment.

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