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Closed Circuit Television
Sir Graham Bright: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 20 June, Official Report, columns 141-42, about funding for closed circuit television, (1) how many cameras it is estimated this funding will lead to; [40097]
- (2) how much money has been allocated so far to schemes to install closed circuit television. [40098]
Mr. Maclean: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Correspondence
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will reply to the letter from Ken Peace of the United Reformed Church Tees district council about immigration matters dated 16 May. [39027]
Miss Widdecombe [holding answer 23 July 1996]: A reply was sent to Mr. Peace on 22 July.
Departmental Legal Costs
Mr. Alan Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 17 July, Official Report, column 550, which sections in his Department made the payments for external legal costs in the cases in which his Departments has been judged to have acted unlawfully; which section or office holder is responsible for ensuring that these external costs are not excessive and how this is achieved; where the records are kept of each case in the last five years in which his Department's actions have been judged to be unlawful; if the personal injury claims arose from the unlawful action; what was the method of recording the total external legal costs of each of these actions; and if Ministers are informed of costs (a) as cases progress and (b) at the end of a case. [38887]
Mr. Howard [holding answer 22 July 1996]: My previous reply of 17 July, Official Report, column 550, explained that my Department does not keep central records of all the legal cases against it over the past 200 years. In the circumstances it is impossible to provide the details requested without incurring disproportionate costs.
Prisons (Purposeful Activity)
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list (i) the latest
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available figures, (ii) the figures for 1992, (iii) those for 1988 and (iv) those for 1987 for the average amount of time prisoners spend in purposeful activity in each category C prison. [38748]
Miss Widdecombe [holding answer 22 July 1996]: 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. George Howarth, dated 24 July 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the average amount of time prisoners spend in purposeful activity in each category C prison.
The most recent information is given in the attached table.
The figures for 1987, 1988 and 1992 are currently unavailable. I will write to you when they become available.
Establishment 1995-96 June 1996
Acklington 25.8 27.9
Aldington n/a n/a
Ashwell 33.9 33.3
Blantyre House 33.4 n/a
Brockhill 34.7 35.6
Camp Hill 28.5 26.7
Channings Wood 28.2 27.4
Coldingley 28.2 n/a
Downview 28.8 32
Erlestoke 31.2 25.3
Everthorpe 29.8 23.2
Featherstone 27.6 24.8
Haverigg 35.2 36.4
Highpoint 22.4 18
Kirklevington 44.9 45.2
Lancaster 25.8 n/a
Latchmere House 61.9 n/a
Lindholme 27.9 26.5
Littlehey 32.2 n/a
Mount 27.0 20
Ranby 32.5 30.4
Risley 28.9 19.5
Send 32.7 35.8
Shepton Mallet 26.2 24.7
Stafford 27.2 28.4
Stocken 33.2 29.3
Usk 35.9 36.7
Verne 30.9 33.2
Wayland 26.2 27.1
Wealstun closed n/a n/a
Wellingborough 28.6 n/a
Whatton 32.3 32.8
Wymott 37.4 n/a
Prisons (Rehabilitative Courses)
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list (i) the latest available figures, (ii) the figures for 1992, (iii) those for 1988, and (iv) those for 1987 for the average number of hours prisoners spend on rehabilitative courses aimed at addressing (a) offending behaviour and (b) drug use for each category C prison. [38751]
Miss Widdecombe [holding answer 22 July 1996]: 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. George Howarth, dated 24 July 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of hours prisoners spend on rehabilitative courses aimed at addressing offending behaviour and drug use for each category C prison.
Information is not collected centrally on the number of hours which prisoners spend on rehabilitative courses addressing drug use, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Information on courses designed to address offending behaviour is not available before 1992-93. The latest available figures for the number of completed courses and the hours involved in 1992-93 and 1995-96 for those category C prisons running such courses are given in the attached table.
Sex offender treatment programme
1992-93: total hours 17,040 (no details are available of the breakdown between different establishments, although it is estimated that category C prisons account for 50 per cent. of the total).
1995-96: total hours 32,220.
Hours
Whatton 8,100
Rochester 1,440
Wayland 4,140
Channings Wood 3,060
Usk 4,140
Littlehey 720
Acklington 2,700
Wymott 5,400
Risley 2,520
Total completions 179
Relapse prevention--Pilot programme in 1995-96
1995-96: 336 hours.
Reasoning and rehabilitation
Not run in any category C prisons at present.
Thinking skills
Figures not available for 1992-93 as this course was piloted in 1993-94.
1995-96: total hours 4,844.
Hours
Channings Wood 196
Wayland 252
Rochester 644
Whatton 532
Elmley 420
Wymott 1,980
Stocken 840
Total completions
Prisons (Cell Sharing)
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list (i) the latest available figures, (ii) the figures for 1992, (iii) those for 1988 and (iv) those for 1987 for the number of prisoners sharing two to a cell designed for one for each category C prison. [38747]
Miss Widdecombe: 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. George Howarth, dated 24 July 1996:
(80) Following the decanting of a wing for refurbishment.
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of prisoners sharing two to a cell designed for one, for each category C prison in 1987, 1988, 1992 and currently.
The latest available information is for June 1996. There were 842 prisoners in category C prisons sharing cells certified to hold one.
The attached table shows the figures for each prison.
Prison June 1987 June 1988 June 1992 June 1996
Stafford 688 394 108 378
Lancaster 106 116 128 106
Camp Hill 152 150 40 0
Shepton Mallet 26 20 114 76
Latchmere House 118 124 0 0
Brockhill 0 0 34 0
Usk 0 0 0 80
Channings Wood 0 0 0 (80)186
Buckley Hall 0 0 0 16
Total 1,090 804 424 842
Prisons (Unlocked Time)
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list (a) the latest available figures, (ii) the figures for 1992, (iii) those for 1988 and (iv) those for 1987 for the average amount of time prisoners spend unlocked on weekdays for each category C prison. [38749]
Miss Widdecombe [holding answer 22 July 1996]: 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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