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Paediatric Services (Greater Manchester)

Mr. Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the role of the NHS executive, north-west will be in the public consultation process regarding paediatric services in Greater Manchester. [11094]

Mr. Horam: The regional offices of the Department of Health have an important role in facilitating discussions between key players locally and then to advise my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, where decisions have to be referred to him.

Psychological Injuries (Ex-service Personnel)

Mr. Sutcliffe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health at what sites medical provision is available to assist ex-service personnel who have suffered psychological and stress-related injuries from conflicts since 1982. [11037]

Mr. Burns: Assistance for suffers from post traumatic stress is available from general practitioners, who can make referrals to specialist psychiatric services as necessary.

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

Cattle Cull

Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the estimated cost of the disposal per tonne of cattle carcases (a) by incineration, (b) by landfill and (c) by other means. [10342]

Mr. Baldry: The disposal of cattle carcases by direct incineration costs around £160 per tonne. Landfill, where this is an appropriate means of disposal, costs around £40 per tonne. Rendering followed by incineration of the resultant meat and bonemeal and tallow costs around £315 per tonne.

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Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many successful prosecutions have been brought for infringements of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986. [10409]

Mrs. Browning: Responsibility for enforcement of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 is shared between the Health and Safety Executive, local authorities and the agriculture departments in Great Britain.

A total of 265 successful prosecutions have been brought under COPR since their introduction in 1986 by the HSE and the agriculture departments. Information on the number of prosecutions by local authorities is not available.

Community-supported Agriculture Projects

Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make an assessment of the (a) number, (b) distribution and (c) benefits of community-supported agriculture projects in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. [10536]

Mr. Boswell: The Department has no information on agriculture projects supported by local communities. However, where local projects contribute to the Department's overall policy aims and objectives these are to be welcomed.

HOME DEPARTMENT

Foreign Nationals (Work Permits)

Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the average time taken for foreign nationals employed in the United Kingdom to secure extensions to their permission to stay, for each year since 1992. [11226]

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Mr. Kirkhope: About one third of applications for further leave to remain made by work permit holders are decided in the public inquiry offices on the same day. The average time to decide the remainder was as follows:

Category of	Average number of days
decision	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996(9)
Work-permit to holders	76	78	77	62	73
All decisions(10)	70	77	93	88	99

(9) Provisional.

(10) Excluding asylum-related decisions.

Prisoners (Education)

Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the average amount of time prisoners spent in education in each month of the financial year 1995-96 and each available month so far during 1996-97 (a) in each prison, (b) by prison type and (c) in the whole Prison Service. [9675]

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.

Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. George Howarth, dated 16 January 1997:

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 average amount of time prisoners spent in education in each month of the financial year 1995-6 and each month so far during 1996-7 (a) in each prison, (b) by prison type and (c) in the whole Prison Service.

The attached tables summarise the average number of hours per week that prisoners spent in education from April 1995 to September 1996, by prison, by prison type and in the whole Prison Service. I have arranged for copies of the tables to be placed in the Library.

The following categories have been included when calculating average education hours: daytime education, evening education, vocational training courses, construction and industrial training courses and physical education. Contracted-out prisons are not required to provide this detail of information therefore no figures are available.

(a) Average weekly hours spent in education per prisoner by prison for the financial year 1995-96

Prison name	April 1995	May 1995	June 1995	July 1995	August 1995	September 1995
Acklington	5.3	4.8	5.5	6.7	5.4	4.4
Albany	7.4	7.4	7.5	7.4	7.1	7.4
Aldington	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Ashwell	9.1	9.7	10.4	11.3	10.2	10.5
Askham Grange	10.3	9.7	11.0	10.1	9.4	10.4
Aylesbury	12.1	12.6	11.8	11.9	8.9	11.6
Bedford	5.2	6.0	6.4	6.4	5.7	6.0
Belmarsh	3.7	3.6	3.8	4.2	4.0	4.2
Birmingham	3.7	4.0	4.5	4.8	4.4	3.4
Blakenhurst	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Blantyre House	11.0	11.6	12.4	12.1	11.9	13.0
Blundeston	6.0	6.4	6.4	6.3	6.0	6.6
Brinsford	9.2	9.7	8.9	9.2	9.3	9.0
Bristol	2.6	3.5	3.1	3.3	2.8	2.6
Brixton	2.5	3.0	2.6	2.7	3.4	2.6
Brockhill	8.3	9.1	10.8	10.6	9.8	11.0
Buckley Hall	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bullingdon	7.7	8.8	9.0	8.7	7.2	6.8
Bullwood Hall	12.5	14.2	14.6	14.3	12.8	14.5
Camp Hill	10.2	10.9	11.1	11.7	11.2	11.0
Canterbury	7.7	8.1	8.5	9.2	7.8	9.6
Cardiff	3.7	3.6	4.2	3.6	4.6	4.7
Castington	9.3	9.9	10.0	10.8	11.4	11.1
Channings Wood	5.4	8.4	9.3	9.4	9.5	9.4
Chelmsford	4.3	3.6	3.8	4.5	4.9	4.6
Coldingley	5.3	6.9	6.9	7.1	6.3	4.9
Cookham Wood	5.5	6.0	6.0	6.1	6.7	5.4
Dartmoor	6.3	6.8	6.5	6.4	6.1	6.2
Deerbolt	10.7	12.0	12.7	13.3	12.2	12.5
Doncaster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dorchester	5.2	5.9	6.0	6.4	5.8	5.9
Dover	9.4	11.3	10.4	9.8	9.7	9.5
Downview	7.7	9.2	9.9	9.5	9.3	8.8
Drake Hall	7.6	8.6	8.6	9.7	8.2	8.6
Durham	2.9	3.9	3.8	4.2	4.0	4.2
East Sutton Park	10.4	13.4	11.7	13.5	13.2	12.5
Eastwood Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Elmley	8.5	9.7	9.5	9.7	9.2	8.9
Erlestoke	8.5	10.6	11.6	11.1	12.0	10.7
Everthorpe	12.8	13.2	12.7	12.5	12.5	14.2
Exeter	3.8	4.7	4.9	4.0	4.0	4.1
Featherstone	6.8	6.7	6.5	5.8	6.6	6.2
Feltham	5.2	6.0	5.7	5.6	5.5	5.1
Ford	7.7	11.0	12.8	11.1	7.7	9.2
Frankland	6.8	7.5	7.1	7.4	6.1	6.7
Full Sutton	7.3	7.3	7.9	8.0	6.4	6.8
Garth	6.5	7.0	6.1	6.3	5.4	5.9
Gartree	9.2	8.6	9.6	8.6	10.6	10.5
Glen Parva	5.9	6.8	6.9	7.5	7.2	6.7
Gloucester	3.6	4.7	5.2	5.4	6.3	4.2
Grendon	5.7	6.0	5.3	6.2	5.9	5.6
Guys Marsh	15.9	16.0	14.0	12.9	12.9	12.5
Haslar	11.8	16.4	15.3	14.5	10.7	14.2
Hatfield	13.1	14.6	14.7	15.1	14.9	15.2
Haverigg	7.4	9.5	9.5	8.9	9.2	8.3
Hewell Grange	9.6	12.9	12.7	13.7	13.7	13.8
Highdown	8.2	8.1	8.9	8.7	9.4	8.3
Highpoint	7.6	8.9	8.6	9.1	8.8	8.3
Hindley	11.3	11.0	10.1	10.7	10.9	11.1
Hollesley Bay	10.7	13.2	13.4	13.4	12.5	12.5
Holloway	5.9	6.2	6.5	5.4	4.2	5.7
Holme House	6.4	6.8	7.1	6.6	7.4	7.4
Hull	4.9	7.5	7.2	7.8	7.5	7.0
Huntercombe	8.7	10.7	11.0	11.5	11.2	10.4
Kingston	7.1	9.8	7.9	7.8	7.8	8.5
Kirkham	8.2	7.6	9.3	8.9	8.4	8.0
Kirklevington	13.1	12.3	11.9	8.7	7.0	6.3
Lancaster	8.7	11.0	10.9	10.1	8.4	8.9
Lancaster Farms	12.1	11.1	13.5	13.4	13.1	13.0
Latchmere House	2.5	3.1	4.7	8.9	8.3	6.9
Leeds	2.5	2.7	2.6	2.8	2.3	2.7
Leicester	3.7	4.5	4.8	4.9	5.1	4.5
Lewes	5.5	5.3	5.6	6.0	5.0	5.8
Leyhill	6.7	7.0	7.1	7.8	7.4	6.6
Lincoln	3.6	3.7	3.3	3.9	3.0	3.8
Lindholme	9.6	10.4	10.5	10.4	11.2	10.4
Littlehey	9.5	11.4	10.6	10.7	9.8	9.9
Liverpool	1.7	2.1	2.3	2.5	2.7	2.3
Long Lartin	9.0	7.5	8.4	8.4	8.9	8.8
Low Newton	9.3	9.4	10.3	9.1	9.6	10.8
Maidstone	7.0	8.5	7.9	9.5	5.9	6.9
Manchester	4.8	4.9	4.8	5.0	5.3	5.1
Moorland	9.1	10.1	9.9	9.6	9.7	8.9
Morton Hall	15.0	15.9	16.7	17.8	18.6	17.5
Mount	8.6	10.6	10.2	8.6	10.7	10.4
New Hall	7.2	6.7	11.2	12.3	11.2	10.3
North Sea Camp	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Northallerton	5.8	7.2	6.4	6.9	6.5	7.3
Norwich	8.5	9.7	9.3	8.1	6.0	7.3
Nottingham	5.8	8.7	9.3	10.0	8.7	9.3
Onley	8.0	7.8	8.6	9.4	8.2	8.7
Parkhurst	4.4	4.0	4.9	4.9	5.0	4.4
Pentonville	12.3	1.2	2.3	2.0	1.5	2.0
Portland	9.0	11.6	12.4	12.9	11.7	12.2
Prescoed	17.8	17.5	18.2	17.7	17.7	17.7
Preston	2.5	2.8	2.7	3.0	3.0	2.9
Ranby	7.9	9.1	9.6	10.6	10.6	9.0
Reading	12.9	13.6	12.5	11.6	9.7	11.1
Risley	8.4	9.9	9.9	9.5	9.8	9.0
Rochester	6.6	8.3	8.2	9.8	8.8	8.3
Send	7.5	7.4	6.9	8.0	7.1	7.6
Shepton Mallet	8.1	8.9	10.0	10.3	8.3	7.3
Shrewsbury	3.9	5.1	4.0	4.4	3.2	4.9
Spring Hill	7.3	8.5	7.4	7.2	6.2	7.3
Stafford	7.0	7.7	7.2	7.3	6.9	5.5
Standford Hill	7.9	8.7	9.3	8.8	8.3	7.4
Stocken	11.0	11.3	11.1	10.5	9.9	10.4
Stoke Heath	8.9	8.7	8.7	8.6	9.8	9.0
Styal	7.2	10.4	9.1	8.6	9.3	11.3
Sudbury	19.6	21.2	22.8	23.0	23.1	21.5
Swaleside	6.5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Swansea	4.7	4.8	4.5	4.5	3.7	4.1
Swinfen Hall	14.5	14.3	14.5	11.9	14.1	14.3
Thorn Cross	18.4	17.6	18.3	19.6	18.1	20.1
Usk	11.7	12.8	11.5	12.4	13.1	12.1
Verne	9.2	9.9	10.4	10.6	10.0	9.4
Wakefield	5.2	6.3	6.2	5.9	12.5	6.0
Wandsworth	3.9	4.0	3.9	3.4	3.1	3.4
Warren Hill	6.5	8.0	7.8	8.9	5.1	7.5
Wayland	10.2	11.9	12.0	12.1	11.8	11.4
Wealstun Closed	11.3	10.0	13.1	15.1	12.8	10.6
Wealstun Open	8.3	9.7	10.3	9.2	7.0	9.1
Wellingborough	12.2	16.2	14.3	16.6	14.9	13.3
Werrington	18.2	20.8	18.1	20.2	19.5	17.3
Wetherby	15.7	18.1	17.7	17.4	17.1	16.5
Whatton	11.9	12.6	12.8	12.6	12.1	13.7
Whitemoor	7.6	8.0	8.0	8.9	8.4	8.1
Winchester	4.2	4.4	4.7	5.0	4.5	4.6
Wolds	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Woodhill	n/a	n/a	n/a	6.4	6.4	n/a
Wormwood Scrubs	4.3	5.1	4.6	4.2	2.6	2.6

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Prison name	October 1995	November 1995	December 1995	January 1996	February 1996	March 1996
Acklington	5.3	5.7	3.9	4.5	5.6	5.6
Albany	7.3	7.2	6.0	6.2	5.8	6.3
Aldington	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Ashwell	10.3	11.3	9.1	11.6	10.9	10.6
Askham Grange	10.4	9.8	6.6	12.2	11.7	10.1
Aylesbury	12.7	13.1	10.3	11.5	11.1	10.7
Bedford	6.7	6.9	6.4	7.5	7.6	7.4
Belmarsh	4.2	3.5	3.5	4.3	4.6	4.9
Birmingham	3.1	1.9	2.2	2.9	3.0	2.9
Blakenhurst	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Blantyre House	15.2	14.3	11.1	13.0	12.8	13.8
Blundeston	6.3	7.3	6.6	7.4	8.1	7.7
Brinsford	9.3	8.6	8.3	8.8	8.0	8.9
Bristol	3.2	3.2	2.6	2.2	2.5	2.8
Brixton	4.1	4.6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Brockhill	13.2	12.3	9.2	10.9	11.4	12.3
Buckley Hall	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bullingdon	7.5	7.9	5.3	6.7	7.3	8.3
Bullwood Hall	13.9	14.5	11.4	10.9	12.0	14.8
Camp Hill	10.5	10.7	10.6	9.4	11.2	10.4
Canterbury	9.4	7.9	8.1	9.6	8.3	9.7
Cardiff	3.4	3.2	3.2	3.6	3.4	3.8
Castington	11.0	11.5	8.3	9.3	9.3	9.1
Channings Wood	9.7	9.6	7.1	7.7	9.5	7.8
Chelmsford	3.8	3.5	3.4	3.9	4.7	5.3
Coldingley	6.6	6.5	5.6	6.1	7.2	6.8
Cookham Wood	4.7	5.4	4.5	4.6	5.2	5.7
Dartmoor	5.9	6.8	5.1	5.7	5.6	4.9
Deerbolt	10.9	12.1	10.5	12.6	12.6	11.6
Doncaster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dorchester	5.8	5.9	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.3
Dover	11.3	11.8	10.8	13.2	11.9	12.0
Downview	9.2	8.8	8.1	8.5	10.1	9.2
Drake Hall	9.7	9.3	6.7	9.2	10.6	8.6
Durham	4.6	4.1	3.6	4.3	4.5	4.3
East Sutton Park	13.8	13.7	11.9	12.3	14.0	12.7
Eastwood Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Elmley	8.8	8.1	6.0	7.4	6.8	6.2
Erlestoke	11.2	11.8	8.6	10.8	12.4	12.4
Everthorpe	14.3	14.8	11.2	12.4	12.9	11.5
Exeter	4.5	4.6	3.7	4.1	4.5	4.6
Featherstone	6.8	7.8	6.8	7.6	7.1	6.9
Feltham	6.3	6.1	5.0	5.5	6.1	5.8
Ford	11.0	11.4	8.0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Frankland	6.5	6.8	4.4	4.4	6.5	5.8
Full Sutton	7.8	5.8	6.8	9.1	8.7	7.6
Garth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Gartree	10.4	10.1	8.8	9.7	9.9	10.3
Glen Parva	6.8	6.5	5.6	6.7	6.6	6.2
Gloucester	6.3	6.5	6.2	4.1	5.3	4.7
Grendon	6.9	6.8	5.1	6.0	n/a	n/a
Guys Marsh	13.0	11.7	11.3	13.5	12.9	14.4
Haslar	14.2	15.0	12.5	13.8	14.7	16.1
Hatfield	14.5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Haverigg	9.3	8.2	7.3	7.8	7.2	7.9
Hewell Grange	14.3	13.8	11.5	13.3	12.4	15.3
Highdown	9.2	8.9	6.7	8.0	8.7	9.4
Highpoint	8.3	8.8	6.8	7.7	8.0	7.3
Hindley	10.7	9.4	7.9	9.2	8.5	8.6
Hollesley Bay	14.0	13.6	10.2	10.8	12.1	12.2
Holloway	5.3	4.0	4.2	6.2	6.4	6.5
Holme House	6.8	6.2	7.0	6.7	6.8	6.6
Hull	7.3	7.6	6.3	6.8	7.7	8.0
Huntercombe	11.6	10.4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Kingston	10.2	9.4	6.9	9.6	10.1	10.4
Kirkham	10.2	9.0	7.8	8.6	9.8	9.4
Kirklevington	6.8	7.2	8.7	7.9	9.4	8.3
Lancaster	10.8	11.6	7.6	11.1	10.6	11.5
Lancaster Farms	11.9	12.6	10.3	11.6	11.5	13.2
Latchmere House	7.7	7.0	7.0	8.4	8.3	8.1
Leeds	2.7	2.6	2.4	2.7	2.6	2.4
Leicester	4.2	4.5	4.0	4.5	4.9	5.0
Lewes	6.1	6.1	5.7	5.8	5.9	6.3
Leyhill	6.7	6.7	5.8	5.3	5.8	5.1
Lincoln	3.6	3.7	4.4	3.8	4.5	3.8
Lindholme	10.7	10.5	9.4	9.6	10.6	10.8
Littlehey	10.1	10.7	8.6	9.5	10.5	11.0
Liverpool	3.0	3.3	2.4	3.0	3.1	3.2
Long Lartin	8.1	7.5	5.7	7.3	8.6	8.3
Low Newton	10.6	10.3	6.9	8.4	8.5	9.3
Maidstone	6.3	7.0	5.4	6.6	5.7	6.9
Manchester	6.1	6.1	5.4	6.1	4.1	3.6
Moorland	8.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Morton Hall	17.7	16.9	14.5	18.8	16.4	17.3
Mount	9.8	9.9	8.2	9.1	7.8	8.6
New Hall	10.6	10.1	8.8	8.9	9.6	n/a
North Sea Camp	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Northallerton	7.2	7.0	6.7	7.7	8.1	7.8
Norwich	8.6	8.1	6.6	7.5	7.6	9.2
Nottingham	9.4	8.5	8.3	11.4	11.3	13.0
Onley	8.6	9.9	7.3	8.9	9.3	8.7
Parkhurst	5.3	5.7	5.5	5.4	5.5	5.8
Pentonville	2.5	2.8	2.3	2.6	2.8	2.8
Portland	13.3	13.5	10.8	12.6	13.9	12.4
Prescoed	16.9	16.5	13.6	15.6	14.3	15.8
Preston	2.9	2.9	2.6	2.5	2.9	3.2
Ranby	9.3	9.2	7.2	8.3	8.9	7.6
Reading	10.5	10.4	9.0	10.7	10.4	10.0
Risley	9.8	9.5	7.2	9.8	10.1	9.9
Rochester	6.6	6.7	7.2	n/a	n/a	n/a
Send	8.7	9.1	6.5	7.9	8.6	9.5
Shepton Mallet	8.5	8.7	7.2	8.3	8.1	9.2
Shrewsbury	5.9	5.9	5.5	5.6	5.8	6.6
Spring Hill	8.9	8.7	6.3	8.6	n/a	n/a
Stafford	6.0	6.8	5.8	6.8	7.1	7.6
Standford Hill	8.1	8.0	5.9	7.9	8.1	8.0
Stocken	11.2	11.5	11.2	7.7	12.4	n/a
Stoke Heath	8.3	9.2	9.0	8.9	8.8	10.9
Styal	9.2	9.6	7.2	7.4	8.8	8.2
Sudbury	21.4	21.0	20.4	21.9	20.3	19.6
Swaleside	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Swansea	4.2	3.5	3.2	3.9	4.2	4.3
Swinfen Hall	14.8	14.6	11.6	10.6	13.1	13.1
Thorn Cross	19.4	19.5	20.5	21.9	20.5	20.1
Usk	12.0	12.0	10.7	11.1	10.9	11.6
Verne	10.5	9.9	9.2	9.2	10.1	n/a
Wakefield	6.2	6.1	4.6	5.8	6.0	5.7
Wandsworth	3.0	3.0	2.6	3.7	4.2	3.6
Warren Hill	9.4	8.2	6.6	6.4	8.1	8.2
Wayland	11.9	12.0	9.2	11.6	11.3	12.1
Wealstun Closed	16.2	15.6	11.5	14.4	14.7	12.6
Wealstun Open	8.8	9.3	6.7	8.5	8.8	8.6
Wellingborough	15.3	14.4	12.6	14.8	14.3	14.0
Werrington	20.1	20.3	18.6	19.1	17.9	17.9
Wetherby	17.7	18.8	15.2	18.9	19.5	18.3
Whatton	13.0	14.8	11.9	14.7	14.5	15.1
Whitemoor	8.1	7.9	6.7	8.4	6.7	8.3
Winchester	4.8	4.7	4.0	4.7	4.7	4.6
Wolds	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Woodhill	n/a	n/a	n/a	6.4	7.1	6.6
Wormwood Scrubs	4.0	3.5	0.8	3.2	2.7	n/a
Wymott	7.3	7.5	6.4	6.6	7.3	8.1

n/a = not available.

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(a) Average weekly hours spent in education per prisoner by prison for the financial year 1996-97 (April to September)

Prison name	April 1996	May 1996	June 1996	July 1996	August 1996	September 1996
Acklington	4.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	4.8	4.8
Albany	3.9	2.8	2.2	3.6	3.7	2.5
Aldington	5.3	5.2	5.6	6.1	6.0	5.7
Ashwell	8.2	9.7	9.6	9.1	10.0	9.8
Askham Grange	9.6	9.6	11.1	10.2	8.7	10.1
Aylesbury	9.6	11.2	11.7	10.7	8.8	11.2
Bedford	5.6	6.0	6.0	6.5	6.1	5.9
Belmarsh	3.7	4.6	4.0	3.6	3.9	3.4
Birmingham	2.5	2.6	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.0
Blakenhurst	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Blantyre House	10.1	11.4	10.9	12.3	13.4	13.5
Blundeston	7.3	7.8	7.4	8.3	7.2	8.3
Brinsford	7.3	7.5	6.9	6.8	6.8	5.6
Bristol	1.4	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.8	1.7
Brixton	3.0	2.0	3.0	2.7	2.0	2.9
Brockhill	9.0	10.3	7.5	9.4	9.9	6.9
Buckley Hall	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bullingdon	6.0	7.6	7.6	7.8	7.1	7.1
Bullwood Hall	14.1	14.0	13.6	14.3	9.6	11.4
Camp Hill	9.7	9.9	10.3	11.2	10.4	10.1
Canterbury	9.4	8.8	8.2	7.9	6.9	7.3
Cardiff	3.3	3.7	3.6	3.7	2.9	3.1
Castington	7.2	8.4	7.9	8.2	7.8	8.4
Channings Wood	5.8	8.0	8.3	8.1	8.6	7.5
Chelmsford	4.5	4.4	4.6	4.5	4.2	3.5
Coldingley	7.3	6.7	6.6	6.1	5.5	5.5
Cookham Wood	8.6	8.9	8.9	7.8	7.7	6.7
Dartmoor	4.2	5.4	5.0	5.4	5.4	5.3
Deerbolt	9.0	9.9	12.0	12.0	12.8	12.0
Doncaster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dorchester	5.3	5.8	6.1	4.4	6.3	5.3
Dover	10.2	11.6	9.2	9.6	9.8	11.0
Downview	7.1	9.0	8.7	7.2	8.5	8.2
Drake Hall	6.9	8.8	7.2	7.7	7.4	7.0
Durham	3.9	3.9	3.5	3.3	3.6	3.7
East Sutton Park	10.4	13.5	11.9	10.7	10.7	12.3
Eastwood Park	10.4	9.5	9.5	10.0	9.0	10.5
Elmley	4.9	6.4	6.7	7.5	7.3	7.3
Erlestoke	9.6	11.0	11.3	12.7	10.2	9.7
Everthorpe	8.7	10.2	10.0	10.9	11.9	10.4
Exeter	3.4	3.5	3.8	3.8	4.0	4.0
Featherstone	5.9	6.6	6.7	6.6	6.2	6.3
Feltham	5.7	5.1	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.0
Ford	8.9	11.4	11.4	12.1	10.7	11.6
Frankland	5.4	5.9	6.4	6.5	5.2	6.0
Full Sutton	7.9	7.8	7.8	7.7	8.8	7.9
Garth	6.1	6.3	6.0	6.9	6.3	5.3
Gartree	n/a	n/a	8.5	7.5	9.1	9.8
Glen Parva	5.9	6.1	6.2	6.0	6.0	5.7
Gloucester	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.0	5.5
Grendon	5.6	5.9	6.4	4.8	4.3	4.8
Guys Marsh	10.9	13.5	14.0	13.6	8.3	11.7
Haslar	12.4	14.5	11.3	12.2	9.5	13.5
Hatfield	16.4	15.1	16.0	18.3	15.6	13.8
Haverigg	7.3	8.4	7.8	7.7	7.9	7.1
Hewell Grange	13.4	15.6	14.6	4.9	14.1	12.4
Highdown	7.5	7.2	7.7	7.1	7.8	7.2
Highpoint	5.7	6.4	6.2	6.5	3.9	3.7
Hindley	8.0	5.1	4.5	8.6	10.3	9.3
Hollesley Bay	6.8	7.0	8.1	5.8	5.7	6.1
Holloway	6.6	6.8	6.1	5.4	6.5	7.0
Holme House	6.5	6.4	6.1	5.1	6.0	6.4
Hull	6.7	7.6	6.4	8.0	7.7	7.1
Huntercombe	10.3	13.5	13.0	13.1	13.7	11.5
Kingston	8.0	8.1	8.9	8.8	6.7	8.8
Kirkham	7.5	9.5	10.2	9.7	8.8	8.3
Kirklevington	7.6	8.2	7.4	6.5	6.9	7.6
Lancaster	9.7	10.0	6.8	11.4	7.4	10.3
Lancaster Farms	10.9	12.0	11.3	11.6	12.4	10.6
Latchmere House	6.2	7.2	8.1	6.5	6.2	6.0
Leeds	2.2	2.6	2.9	2.0	1.5	2.4
Leicester	3.1	3.9	4.4	4.5	3.5	4.8
Lewes	6.2	6.9	6.9	6.6	5.8	6.0
Leyhill	5.5	6.3	6.4	6.9	7.5	7.6
Lincoln	3.6	3.7	3.8	4.0	3.6	2.6
Lindholm	9.5	10.0	10.3	10.5	10.9	9.9
Littlehey	8.6	9.9	10.9	10.3	10.6	10.0
Liverpool	2.7	3.1	2.6	3.0	2.7	2.5
Long Lartin	7.6	7.6	8.3	6.2	5.5	6.9
Low Newton	8.8	9.1	10.0	10.2	9.6	9.1
Maidstone	6.7	6.9	7.9	8.2	7.4	7.8
Manchester	1.2	1.6	1.7	1.9	1.8	2.2
Moorland	7.0	6.4	7.3	8.8	6.8	10.4
Morton Hall	14.2	14.5	14.3	14.4	15.5	15.1
Mount	7.5	8.2	7.6	8.0	7.3	6.4
New Hall	9.1	8.8	7.3	7.6	9.0	6.9
North Sea Camp	11.2	11.4	11.5	10.4	10.5	10.1
Northallerton	5.7	6.9	7.3	6.6	6.9	7.1
Norwich	8.3	8.4	6.5	5.4	5.5	4.5
Nottingham	9.7	9.4	9.7	8.3	9.2	10.0
Onley	n/a	7.6	8.6	9.4	8.4	8.5
Parkhurst	5.4	5.1	5.0	5.8	5.8	5.8
Pentonville	2.3	2.7	2.3	2.6	2.4	3.0
Portland	10.5	12.4	11.4	12.3	10.1	10.6
Prescoed	15.6	15.4	15.6	16.5	13.5	13.5
Preston	2.1	3.0	3.1	3.0	2.9	2.8
Ranby	4.6	6.6	7.4	7.7	6.6	7.3
Reading	9.2	9.2	8.5	7.7	8.4	7.4
Risley	7.8	8.6	6.2	8.0	7.2	6.5
Rochester	6.0	6.0	5.5	7.7	8.0	6.6
Send	9.1	10.7	10.0	9.5	9.4	8.5
Shepton Mallet	6.9	8.9	8.3	9.0	8.8	9.2
Shrewsbury	7.0	6.6	5.9	5.7	3.6	5.7
Spring Hill	6.9	8.6	8.3	8.3	6.3	5.7
Stafford	7.1	8.1	7.2	7.5	7.4	7.1
Standford Hill	7.3	7.3	8.4	8.2	6.7	8.1
Stocken	10.0	11.6	10.0	9.6	9.7	8.5
Stoke Heath	7.2	7.6	8.0	8.7	8.1	7.5
Styal	4.3	7.5	7.8	8.5	7.4	7.7
Sudbury	17.9	19.9	19.5	20.6	20.1	18.1
Swaleside	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Swansea	3.8	3.8	3.9	6.1	3.7	3.6
Swinfen Hall	8.6	11.9	12.4	12.0	9.9	12.3
Thorn Cross	19.2	20.1	20.3	19.6	20.8	19.5
Usk	10.9	10.5	11.2	13.2	11.9	11.0
Verne	7.3	8.5	8.6	8.4	8.8	8.8
Wakefield	6.0	5.5	6.1	5.2	3.8	5.3
Wandsworth	2.8	3.1	2.0	2.9	3.0	3.0
Warren Hill	9.8	10.0	11.1	10.6	8.8	8.0
Wayland	9.3	11.0	11.2	11.4	10.8	10.2
Wealstun Closed	11.1	11.0	11.5	11.7	10.3	8.8
Wealstun Open	6.5	8.0	7.9	8.4	8.2	9.0
Wellingborough	13.3	14.3	14.6	14.2	12.5	11.7
Werrington	17.9	15.5	16.8	16.7	15.5	17.9
Wetherby	15.5	15.8	17.2	19.2	18.9	18.5
Whatton	14.3	13.0	13.8	11.3	12.5	14.2
Whitemoor	7.7	7.3	7.5	6.9	5.8	6.1
Winchester	3.0	4.5	4.1	3.2	4.9	3.5
Wolds	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Woodhill	5.2	5.6	6.1	6.3	6.2	5.8
Wormwood Scrubs	1.6	2.3	2.3	2.4	1.2	2.4
Wymott	6.4	6.9	7.2	7.4	7.1	7.7

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(b) Average weekly hours spent in education per prisoner by type for the financial years 1995-96 and 1996-97 (April to September)

Prison type	April 1995	May 1995	June 1995	July 1995	August 1995	September 1995
Category B	6.6	7.2	7.1	7.3	6.6	6.9
Category C	8.5	9.6	9.7	9.8	9.6	9.1
Dispersal	6.9	7.2	7.4	7.5	8.8	7.1
Female closed	7.4	9.2	9.2	8.8	9.0	9.5
Female local	6.3	6.4	7.8	7.3	6.1	6.9
Female open	8.9	10.1	10.0	10.8	9.7	10.0
Male closed young offender	9.5	10.4	10.7	10.7	10.2	10.3
Male juvenile institution	18.2	20.8	18.1	20.2	19.5	17.3
Male local	4.8	4.8	4.9	5.0	4.6	4.6
Male open	10.0	11.4	12.2	11.8	10.9	10.9
Male open young offender	16.2	16.5	16.9	17.3	16.6	17.5
Male remand centre	8.6	9.0	8.9	8.7	8.6	8.8

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Prison type	October 1995	November 1995	December 1995	January 1996	February 1996	March 1996
Category B	7.1	7.4	6.2	7.2	7.1	7.2
Category C	9.6	9.8	8.1	9.0	9.6	9.4
Dispersal	7.3	6.8	5.6	7.0	7.2	7.0
Female closed	8.2	8.8	6.9	7.0	8.0	8.5
Female local	6.8	5.7	5.5	6.6	6.7	6.5
Female open	10.9	10.5	7.8	10.7	11.7	10.0
Male closed young offender	10.7	10.9	9.1	10.5	10.6	10.5
Male juvenile institution	20.1	20.3	18.6	19.1	17.9	17.9
Male local	4.8	4.7	3.9	4.7	4.8	4.8
Male open	11.8	11.6	9.6	11.7	11.6	11.9
Male open young offender	16.2	18.6	17.0	19.4	18.7	19.0
Male remand centre	9.0	8.7	7.3	8.3	8.2	8.8

Prison Type	April 1996	May 1996	June 1996	July 1996	August 1996	September 1996
Category B	6.0	6.1	6.3	6.6	6.3	6.2
Category C	7.8	8.7	8.5	8.8	8.3	8.2
Dispersal	6.9	6.7	7.1	6.5	5.8	6.4
Female closed	7.9	9.5	9.5	9.7	8.0	8.3
Female local	7.7	7.6	6.8	6.5	7.5	7.5
Female open	8.4	10.0	9.1	9.0	8.4	8.9
Male closed young offender	8.8	9.8	10.0	10.2	9.3	9.5
Male juvenile institution	17.9	15.5	16.8	16.7	15.5	17.9
Male local	4.0	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.0	4.0
Male open	9.6	11.0	11.2	10.7	10.7	10.4
Male open young offender	17.5	17.4	17.7	18.6	18.0	16.5
Male remand centre	7.6	7.4	7.0	7.5	7.8	7.0

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 347

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 347

(c) Average weekly hours spent in education per prisoner for the financial years 1995-96 and 1996-97

Month	Education hours per inmate
April 1995	7.2
May 1995	7.7
June 1995	7.8
July 1995	7.9
August 1995	7.6
September 1995	7.4
October 1995	7.7
November 1995	7.7
December 1995	6.4
January 1996	7.4
February 1996	7.6
March 1996	7.7
April 1996	6.6
May 1996	7.1
June 1996	7.1
July 1996	7.1
August 1996	6.7
September 1996	6.7

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