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Prison Behaviour Programmes

Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the average number of prisoners (a) taking part in and (b) completing offending behaviour programmes in each month of the financial year 1995-96 and each available month so far during 1996-97 (i) in each prison, (ii) by prison type and (iii) in the whole Prison Service; [9677]

(2) if he will list the average number of prisoners (a) taking part in and (b) completing sex offender treatment programmes in each month of the financial year 1995-96 and each available month so far during 1996-97 (i) in each prison, (ii) by prison type and (iii) in the whole Prison Service; [9679]

(3) if he will list the average amount of time prisoners on such programmes spent in sex offender treatment programmes 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; [9678]

(4) if he will list the average amount of time prisoners on such programmes spent in offending behaviour programmes 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. [9676]

Miss Widdecombe: 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 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 Questions about how many prisoners have completed (a) offending behaviour programmes, (b) sex offender programmes for each month in 1995-96 and for this financial year so far and the average amount of time spent on these programmes.

You asked for this information for each prison, by prison type and for the whole of the Prison Service. I am afraid this information is not available in the form requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

However for the year ending 31 March 1996, 406 prisoners completed the core module 3 of the sex offender treatment programme (SOTP). A further 33 completed the SOTP booster programme (designed for men about to be released from very long sentences).

746 prisoners completed cognitive skills programmes, 115 of these completed the reasoning and rehabilitation programme and 631 the in-house thinking skills.

In order to meet the criteria set for programmes to be accredited the standards of existing programmes have had to be improved. The Sex Offender Core Programme was revised during 1995 from 70 to 180 hours and the length of the Thinking Skills programme was increased from 28 hours to 40 hours from April 1996.

I attach two tables containing information received from establishments which indicate the number of prisoners completing each of the accredited programmes so far this financial year, the programme length and the type of establishments running these programmes. There are a number of courses in progress which are not included in these figures.

There are other offending behaviour programmes run in prisons according to prisoners need and the skills of staff available to deliver them. These are not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Completions of the SOTP core programme from April to November 1996 by establishment and establishment type

	Number
Young offenders institution
Castington	7
Feltham	16
Total	23
Category C
Acklington	15
Channings Wood	16
Littlehey	21
Risley	8
Rochester	5
Usk	21
Wayland	24
Whatton	36
Wymott	13
Total	159
Local
Wandsworth	21
Woodhill	7
Total	28
Category B/dispersal
Albany	14
Dartmoor	20
Frankland	7
Maidstone	14
Wakefield	12
Whitemoor	11
Total	78
Grand total	288

The Core programme consists, on average, of 180 hours session time.

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Completions of the SOTP booster (relapse prevention) programme from April to November 1996 by establishment and establishment type

	Number
Category D
Leyhill	20
Total	20
Category C
Channings Wood	8
Wymott	7
Total	15
Grand total	35

The Booster programme consists, on average, of 60 hours session time.

Completions of the enhanced thinking skills programme from April to Novemebr 1996 by establishment and establishment type

	Number
Young offenders institution
Feltham	9
Lancaster Farms	43
Moorland	15
Thorn Cross	43
Total	110
Category C
Blantyre House	18
Total	18
Local
Bedford	7
Brixton	40
High Down	33
Pentonville	6
Wandsworth	20
Wormwood Scrubs	30
Total	136
Category B/dispersal
Albany	15
Dartmoor	17
Long Lartin	7
Wakefield	15
Whitemoor	25
Total	79
Grand total	343

The enhanced thinking skills programme consists, on average, of 40 hours session time.

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Completions of the reasoning and reasoning and rehabilitation programme from April to November 1996 by establishment and establishment type

	Number
Young offenders institution
Aylesbury	16
Brinsford	9
Swinfen Hall	12
Total	37
Female
Holloway	12
Total	12
Category D
Spring Hill	7
Total	7
Category C
Featherstone	11
Wymott	10
Total	21
Local
Wolds	26
Total	26
Category B/Dispersal
Full Sutton	21
Total	21
Grand total	124

The Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme consists, on average, of 70 hours session time.

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Sex Offences

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to review the current maximum penalties for sex offences. [11766]

Mr. Howard: I have decided, in consultation with my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, to undertake a review of the existing maximum penalties for sex offenders. The object of the review will be to identify any anomalies in existing penalties, and to ensure that penalties properly reflect the comparative gravity of different offences.

Prison Medical Service

Dr. Goodson-Wickes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of privatising the prison medical service. [10450]

Miss Widdecombe: We have no plans to privatise the prison health care service. We are committed to pursuing a policy where health care for prisoners will be purchased from the national health service or the private sector, rather than be provided directly, where this makes sense in terms of a better level of service and better value for money.

Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the estimated (a) set up and (b) monthly and annual running costs of the helpline to be introduced for employers regarding the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993. [10667]

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Mr. Kirkhope: The cost of setting up the helpline for employers about section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 was approximately £23,000. The annual running costs would be approximately £3,500.

Prisoners (Purposeful Activity)

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 purposeful activity 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. [9674]

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 purposeful activity in each month of the financial year 1995-96 and each month so far during 1996-97 (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 purposeful activity 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.

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(a) Average weekly hours spent in purposeful activity 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	24.0	26.3	26.0	26.0	23.4	21.4
Albany	24.7	25.7	26.5	26.1	25.1	20.8
Aldington	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Ashwell	31.6	33.4	33.4	34.9	33.8	32.6
Askham Grange	40.4	38.1	40.8	40.6	41.7	38.9
Aylesbury	26.2	26.5	24.9	26.9	24.1	26.8
Bedford	24.6	25.3	25.7	26.2	26.7	26.3
Belmarsh	15.9	15.7	15.6	16.2	15.6	16.2
Birmingham	17.6	18.7	19.6	19.6	18.3	16.1
Blakenhurst	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Blantyre House	30.8	31.2	33.2	35.5	33.8	33.2
Blundeston	21.8	22.4	21.2	22.5	21.1	20.4
Brinsford	23.6	23.1	22.1	22.6	22.0	21.4
Bristol	21.2	23.7	21.9	22.7	20.6	21.0
Brixton	7.8	8.3	7.1	7.3	7.9	7.8
Brockhill	33.4	34.6	35.2	34.4	35.1	34.9
Buckley Hall	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bullingdon	27.4	30.5	29.4	30.1	27.3	25.7
Bullwood Hall	28.6	30.6	30.2	31.2	29.3	29.0
Camp Hill	27.4	28.6	27.6	29.0	29.4	29.1
Canterbury	25.6	24.7	24.8	26.0	23.3	24.9
Cardiff	19.2	21.0	23.3	17.3	20.0	22.1
Castington	23.6	24.9	24.4	24.5	25.1	24.6
Channings Wood	24.3	27.3	29.3	30.6	30.1	29.7
Chelmsford	15.9	14.7	15.5	16.1	16.7	17.2
Coldingley	22.9	26.3	27.0	27.8	27.6	26.8
Cookham Wood	14.9	15.2	15.7	16.1	15.6	13.6
Dartmoor	21.7	23.0	22.6	22.5	22.6	21.9
Deerbolt	20.9	21.5	24.7	25.4	24.1	22.6
Doncaster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dorchester	19.1	22.4	22.1	22.4	21.1	21.0
Dover	22.5	23.9	24.5	23.1	23.5	24.5
Downview	26.8	30.2	30.2	30.5	30.8	30.3
Drake Hall	34.5	36.1	38.0	39.8	40.2	37.9
Durham	14.2	18.5	19.2	20.1	18.9	20.0
East Sutton Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Eastwood Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Elmley	21.1	23.0	23.0	23.2	23.4	24.8
Erlestoke	28.7	32.1	33.0	32.6	33.5	33.1
Everthorpe	29.4	32.8	30.2	30.2	29.8	31.1
Exeter	22.7	24.3	23.9	23.0	22.8	21.41
Featherstone	26.6	27.5	27.7	27.8	27.5	27.1
Feltham	26.1	26.3	25.7	24.3	23.0	22.6
Ford	32.1	35.4	39.3	39.8	36.9	36.4
Frankland	19.3	21.1	20.5	20.2	19.2	20.3
Full Sutton	25.1	24.3	26.3	26.4	25.0	24.5
Garth	21.0	21.2	19.4	22.3	18.0	19.7
Gartree	26.1	25.7	26.9	26.0	27.5	27.9
Glen Parva	20.1	22.4	21.8	22.4	21.1	20.6
Gloucester	20.1	20.0	21.5	22.4	23.6	20.7
Grendon	30.3	29.5	28.9	29.7	29.8	31.5
Guys Marsh	40.6	37.9	37.7	37.1	37.3	35.2
Haslar	26.4	32.9	30.2	30.3	27.2	31.4
Hatfield	36.7	38.2	38.8	40.3	39.2	38.9
Haverigg	31.1	36.2	35.0	36.9	36.5	35.3
Hewell Grange	42.6	43.3	43.3	44.7	45.8	43.4
Highdown	17.9	18.1	20.6	20.2	21.2	20.5
Highpoint	24.6	26.0	25.1	26.1	26.9	25.4
Hindley	23.0	23.8	22.4	22.9	23.3	23.9
Hollesley Bay	25.1	25.9	26.6	25.6	25.4	25.7
Holloway	18.2	18.1	19.3	18.4	17.1	17.1
Holme House	15.0	15.4	16.2	15.4	16.4	16.3
Hull	21.1	24.3	23.8	25.1	24,.4	23.8
Huntercombe	21.7	23.9	25.5	25.9	26.2	24.6
Kingston	28.0	32.5	30.7	27.8	34.6	32.8
Kirkham	46.0	46.8	50.5	49.8	51.4	48.1
Kirklevington	45.6	47.1	45.4	45.2	47.3	44.8
Lancaster	23.9	27.3	27.0	26.5	25.2	25.9
Lancaster Farms	22.4	23.2	26.6	25.8	25.5	26.2
Latchmere House	55.6	57.4	56.7	59.1	58.8	56.0
Leeds	14.2	14.8	14.6	14.6	13.9	14.0
Leicester	22.9	22.8	24.7	23.8	24.6	22.8
Lewes	21.6	21.6	21.8	22.8	21.6	21.8
Leyhill	36.8	38.0	39.4	39.9	39.6	38.4
Lincoln	18.1	20.5	19.0	21.0	20.5	20.9
Lindholme	27.3	28.2	29.8	27.8	28.8	28.3
Littlehey	29.7	33.3	32.8	33.5	31.9	31.5
Liverpool	14.4	16.2	16.0	16.7	17.2	17.5
Long Lartin	22.5	20.3	21.1	21.3	22.6	22.9
Low Newton	21.2	21.1	22.7	21.0	21.3	23.1
Maidstone	22.4	24.2	24.1	26.0	22.0	22.1
Manchester	21.5	22.4	21.8	22.9	21.8	22.2
Moorland	24.1	26.3	26.5	26.1	25.6	24.6
Morton Hall	39.6	43.3	41.2	43.7	43.8	44.2
Mount	24.0	26.9	26.4	24.9	27.5	27.8
New Hall	25.9	25.3	32.2	33.0	31.4	30.7
North Sea Camp	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Northallerton	22.2	23.9	21.9	21.7	21.6	22.6
Norwich	24.4	25.4	24.2	21.6	19.4	21.2
Nottingham	20.9	24.0	25.1	24.8	24.6	25.4
Onley	21.6	20.5	23.1	23.5	21.8	21.9
Parkhurst	13.4	13.2	16.5	16.0	16.3	15.9
Pentonville	25.4	10.8	15.0	13.9	13.6	13.0
Portland	23.8	27.5	28.7	30.3	29.2	28.5
Prescoed	43.5	47.1	47.4	44.6	45.7	44.5
Preston	18.7	19.7	20.3	20.6	20.7	20.8
Ranby	31.2	33.6	33.7	34.4	34.1	31.4
Reading	31.9	34.0	30.7	30.5	27.9	29.5
Risley	26.8	29.4	29.3	29.4	29.9	28.2
Rochester	23.2	25.3	25.1	27.0	25.1	26.8
Send	31.4	31.6	32.7	33.9	34.5	32.8
Shepton Mallet	24.4	25.3	28.3	29.1	27.5	25.1
Shewsbury	19.0	20.5	20.3	21.4	19.3	21.9
Spring Hill	36.2	35.2	37.0	37.0	37.6	36.8
Stafford	27.5	30.4	29.5	29.7	28.3	24.8
Standford Hill	41.2	41.6	45.0	46.0	44.7	44.8
Stocken	32.7	33.4	33.0	32.8	31.6	32.9
Stoke Heath	26.2	27.5	26.5	26.7	27.0	27.6
Styal	33.1	34.9	34.2	34.7	33.5	37.4
Sudbury	49.0	47.0	50.4	49.3	52.8	49.0
Swaleside	18.8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Swansea	21.2	21.9	21.2	19.0	18.7	19.8
Swinfen Hall	30.0	30.0	30.7	27.4	31.7	30.1
Thorn Cross	43.5	39.5	47.6	49.7	49.6	47.3
Usk	30.6	33.5	31.8	32.9	34.1	32.2
Verne	30.0	30.3	31.4	31.5	31.9	32.3
Wakefield	18.8	21.6	21.3	21.4	27.1	19.6
Wandsworth	23.4	22.1	23.9	24.7	22.9	21.8
Warren Hill	37.2	38.3	41.4	40.0	36.0	37.2
Wayland	23.8	24.8	27.1	27.7	27.2	25.4
Wealstun Closed	31.8	31.6	30.9	33.5	32.2	28.4
Wealstun Open	42.9	36.0	42.4	42.0	41.7	43.7
Wellingborough	26.6	31.6	29.9	32.4	29.8	27.2
Werrington	39.6	44.8	41.5	43.9	43.2	41.8
Wetherby	36.4	38.0	39.0	37.0	38.3	37.0
Whatton	30.3	32.3	33.1	31.1	32.1	32.8
Whitemoor	19.1	19.9	20.5	22.5	22.0	21.2
Winchester	21.8	22.0	21.9	22.8	21.5	18.7
Wolds	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Woodhill	n/a	n/a	n/a	23.2	23.6	n/a
Wormwood Scrubs	21.5	22.3	20.3	21.7	18.3	17.2
Wymott	34.6	37.0	37.5	37.7	39.1	38.0

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

Prison name	October 1995	November 1995	December 1995	January 1996	February 1996	March 1996
Acklington	27.6	28.8	23.7	26.5	27.6	29.0
Albany	26.1	26.8	23.7	22.0	22.4	24.9
Aldington	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Ashwell	33.5	34.1	30.4	34.4	33.8	33.4
Askham Grange	40.3	39.2	29.1	37.4	32.4	36.3
Aylesbury	26.7	27.9	24.4	26.6	27.1	25.8
Bedford	26.9	26.8	26.6	29.5	28.7	28.1
Belmarsh	16.1	15.4	15.2	15.6	16.1	16.6
Birmingham	16.4	14.2	13.3	15.6	15.7	13.4
Blakenhurst	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Blantyre House	34.5	34.6	29.1	33.9	34.6	36.2
Blundeston	20.5	21.2	19.9	21.8	22.2	22.1
Brinsford	21.5	20.6	20.2	21.5	20.0	21.2
Bristol	20.4	20.5	19.9	19.6	20.0	20.9
Brixton	8.3	8.4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Brockhill	36.1	35.9	32.2	35.3	35.0	35.0
Buckley Hall	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bullingdon	27.7	28.4	24.9	24.7	27.8	29.9
Bullwood Hall	30.2	29.2	25.1	25.6	26.4	30.0
Camp Hill	27.7	29.7	28.4	26.7	30.4	27.9
Canterbury	25.0	21.1	22.1	24.8	22.4	24.2
Cardiff	25.3	25.6	24.8	25.9	26.3	27.3
Castington	25.7	26.9	21.5	23.7	24.6	24.0
Channings Wood	30.8	30.5	24.8	27.6	28.8	28.1
Chelmsford	15.2	14.8	14.6	16.0	17.1	18.7
Coldingley	30.1	29.2	27.8	28.2	33.0	31.7
Cookham Wood	13.3	14.5	12.4	14.0	14.5	14.4
Dartmoor	21.1	23.4	19.4	20.9	20.6	18.7
Deerbolt	20.8	22.2	19.3	24.2	24.2	23.2
Doncaster	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dorchester	21.5	21.6	19.9	23.2	20.1	20.6
Dover	26.4	28.5	26.5	28.5	28.0	27.8
Downview	30.3	26.8	25.6	26.6	28.6	29.4
Drake Hall	40.2	39.3	35.7	37.1	39.0	39.1
Durham	20.4	19.1	18.7	19.9	20.4	20.4
East Sutton Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Eastwood Park	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Elmley	22.1	20.6	18.2	19.9	19.4	19.1
Erlestoke	31.5	31.8	26.7	28.9	31.5	31.0
Everthorpe	31.6	31.0	27.3	28.9	30.0	27.3
Exeter	21.3	21.9	20.0	20.2	20.1	21.0
Featherstone	29.5	29.8	26.7	27.8	27.5	26.7
Feltham	23.5	23.9	21.6	22.4	22.6	21.6
Ford	36.8	35.9	30.8	n/a	n/a	n/a
Frankland	19.6	18.9	16.2	13.9	19.4	17.3
Full Sutton	26.2	22.8	21.5	24.4	23.9	24.2
Garth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Gartree	28.4	27.9	25.3	26.0	26.3	26.6
Glen Parva	22.1	21.1	20.7	22.5	21.9	20.7
Gloucester	22.8	22.6	23.3	23.0	23.2	21.7
Grendon	32.4	32.7	29.5	31.1	n/a	n/a
Guys Marsh	35.1	33.8	33.0	32.4	35.6	34.3
Haslar	34.6	34.2	28.7	27.9	30.3	30.9
Hatfield	38.7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Haverigg	37.2	36.3	33.1	35.1	34.3	35.8
Hewell Grange	44.6	45.3	38.9	40.7	42.9	46.9
Highdown	22.4	21.8	17.3	19.5	20.4	21.2
Highpoint	19.8	20.1	17.6	19.1	19.4	19.5
Hindley	22.8	21.5	18.9	21.8	21.5	21.9
Hollesley Bay	28.2	26.6	24.3	24.6	25.8	27.7
Holloway	15.7	14.4	15.4	19.0	20.1	20.5
Holme House	14.9	14.1	15.3	15.6	15.7	15.5
Hull	23.6	24.2	21.9	23.7	24.3	24.5
Huntercombe	26.0	24.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Kingston	35.6	33.4	30.2	32.0	33.4	33.6
Kirkham	52.3	50.3	46.8	49.3	50.7	48.7
Kirklevington	45.1	44.4	42.1	42.7	45.2	45.0
Lancaster	27.3	28.6	23.5	26.0	22.8	25.7
Lancaster Farms	25.2	25.9	22.9	23.8	23.8	26.4
Latchmere House	58.1	61.3	66.8	66.3	70.0	73.2
Leeds	14.3	14.9	16.5	16.2	15.5	15.9
Leicester	23.0	24.2	24.5	24.9	26.8	23.7
Lewes	22.4	22.2	21.7	21.2	21.9	22.6
Leyhill	39.7	39.7	37.0	35.1	39.9	40.5
Lincoln	21.9	21.2	20.8	20.8	21.4	20.9
Lindholme	29.1	28.2	25.2	26.5	27.8	27.8
Littlehey	32.7	33.5	30.7	30.1	33.0	34.1
Liverpool	19.0	19.8	16.7	18.6	20.0	20.8
Long Lartin	22.2	20.3	18.9	20.2	21.7	21.6
Low Newton	23.0	23.2	18.7	21.3	22.2	23.8
Maidstone	22.0	22.7	20.2	22.0	22.0	22.6
Manchester	23.8	21.7	21.5	21.8	20.1	20.3
Moorland	25.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Morton Hall	44.6	45.1	34.4	44.7	40.5	44.1
Mount	29.3	29.3	27.4	28.0	25.6	27.0
New Hall	29.8	33.2	29.6	28.9	30.2	n/a
North Sea Camp	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Northallerton	24.5	24.2	22.2	22.8	22.0	21.2
Norwich	21.8	20.9	20.1	23.0	19.5	20.9
Nottingham	25.7	24.1	23.8	27.8	26.9	29.2
Onley	21.9	23.9	19.2	21.9	22.8	21.3
Parkhurst	16.1	17.0	15.5	16.8	17.0	17.4
Pentonville	13.5	13.7	12.9	13.1	13.0	14.1
Portland	28.9	29.8	25.8	27.1	28.6	26.3
Prescoed	44.5	46.6	40.2	43.6	41.9	42.8
Preston	20.2	20.6	20.6	20.8	20.4	20.9
Ranby	32.7	33.6	31.3	32.7	33.7	29.8
Reading	29.3	30.8	29.8	32.6	33.2	31.0
Risley	29.7	29.4	26.8	29.4	29.8	29.0
Rochester	23.6	22.6	23.4	n/a	n/a	n/a
Send	34.7	33.5	28.9	31.2	34.3	34.1
Shepton Mallet	27.2	26.5	24.9	26.4	24.5	25.3
Shrewsbury	20.0	21.6	19.8	20.6	20.5	23.2
Spring Hill	40.0	39.4	32.8	39.3	n/a	n/a
Stafford	24.6	27.3	22.5	27.3	27.5	28.8
Standford Hill	46.8	43.2	42.6	43.0	43.2	45.9
Stocken	34.3	33.9	34.7	24.6	33.4	n/a
Stoke Heath	28.6	27.1	26.1	27.1	27.2	29.3
Styal	34.9	36.2	31.1	31.2	34.5	31.5
Sudbury	50.6	49.2	47.8	47.9	48.8	50.7
Swaleside	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Swansea	17.5	16.1	15.6	17.2	18.1	19.4
Swinfen Hall	30.9	31.0	24.9	25.0	28.3	29.0
Thorn Cross	47.2	45.0	45.2	49.6	46.9	47.2
Usk	33.6	33.4	30.9	31.0	31.0	31.4
Verne	33.1	31.4	28.4	29.0	31.0	n/a
Wakefield	21.1	21.4	18.1	19.5	18.7	19.5
Wandsworth	21.7	22.7	21.9	23.9	25.1	26.0
Warren Hill	36.9	35.2	34.7	35.0	37.6	36.4
Wayland	27.6	27.3	24.2	26.6	25.7	27.4
Wealstun Closed	37.7	37.2	33.8	35.7	36.6	35.3
Wealstun Open	43.9	44.9	41.8	46.7	44.8	45.7
Wellingborough	29.6	29.5	26.0	28.1	27.3	27.1
Werrington	40.8	41.7	37.9	40.0	42.2	40.6
Wetherby	37.7	38.2	33.8	37.7	39.8	37.6
Whatton	33.8	34.5	27.5	31.2	33.9	34.8
Whitemoor	21.1	19.5	17.9	20.7	17.2	21.8
Winchester	19.6	19.4	18.2	19.2	19.5	19.7
Wolds	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Woodhill	n/a	n/a	n/a	23.4	25.0	26.4
Wormwood Scrubs	20.4	20.1	6.8	20.5	19.6	n/a
Wymott	37.7	37.7	36.0	36.7	37.8	38.6

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(a) Average weekly hours spent in purposeful activity 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	25.7	27.0	27.8	28.5	26.2	25.8
Albany	18.0	18.0	14.6	20.8	20.1	18.9
Aldington	29.8	28.9	25.3	32.1	30.8	29.4
Ashwell	30.3	32.5	33.3	33.0	34.3	33.1
Askham Grange	40.2	38.9	40.4	39.2	39.9	44.0
Aylesbury	25.6	26.7	26.3	25.8	25.5	26.6
Bedford	25.7	26.4	26.9	27.5	26.4	26.8
Belmarsh	14.8	16.1	14.6	14.1	13.2	12.6
Birmingham	16.0	14.1	12.6	11.9	12.8	12.1
Blakenhurst	24.4	24.5	24.2	24.2	24.1	23.1
Blantyre House	33.5	34.0	34.2	36.0	34.8	34.8
Blundeston	20.2	21.1	21.3	21.7	22.7	22.4
Brinsford	18.9	18.7	18.0	18.1	17.6	15.8
Bristol	18.6	20.1	18.8	19.5	18.4	17.7
Brixton	17.1	11.6	16.1	15.6	14.7	15.2
Brockhill	33.6	35.4	35.6	37.4	36.0	27.2
Buckley Hall	25.8	28.4	28.4	29.0	29.6	28.1
Bullingdon	24.2	26.2	26.1	28.0	25.3	22.6
Bullwood Hall	29.0	29.0	28.4	28.2	21.6	26.3
Camp Hill	26.6	27.7	27.3	29.2	26.6	26.4
Canterbury	24.2	23.3	23.3	23.1	19.0	20.3
Cardiff	24.3	25.4	23.4	26.0	23.4	22.4
Castington	20.5	23.3	22.8	21.8	21.7	21.8
Channings Wood	24.0	26.0	27.4	27.6	27.4	25.5
Chelmsford	17.5	18.0	20.5	21.3	20.1	19.3
Cordingley	32.4	32.7	35.7	34.8	31.9	33.9
Cookham Wood	26.3	28.4	28.2	27.8	26.9	23.9
Dartmoor	18.8	20.1	19.6	20.9	20.8	19.7
Deerbolt	20.5	19.0	21.8	22.4	23.5	23.0
Doncaster	27.3	28.5	28.1	28.6	30.4	22.9
Dorchester	20.3	21.6	21.4	15.6	22.0	21.1
Dover	24.5	26.6	23.4	24.5	24.7	25.1
Downview	26.3	29.5	32.0	30.4	31.3	30.0
Drake Hall	36.3	37.3	37.2	36.7	36.8	35.7
Durham	15.8	21.3	20.1	18.6	18.6	18.2
East Sutton Park	32.8	35.9	37.6	37.5	39.3	35.8
Eastwood Park	22.5	22.8	23.4	23.1	21.3	23.5
Elmley	16.6	18.8	18.4	21.0	21.0	21.0
Erlestoke	27.5	29.7	29.4	31.7	28.6	28.9
Everthorpe	21.5	23.9	23.2	24.1	24.9	23.1
Exeter	18.6	19.9	19.5	19.2	19.9	20.1
Featherstone	24.9	25.7	25.7	26.3	25.1	23.6
Feltham	22.7	21.4	19.9	14.8	14.9	18.2
Ford	32.9	37.3	36.6	38.6	36.1	36.4
Frankland	15.7	18.9	19.3	20.7	18.9	18.5
Full Sutton	21.2	24.7	23.9	23.9	23.9	23.5
Garth	19.6	20.7	20.5	21.2	19.8	16.5
Gartree	n/a	n/a	21.8	22.1	25.9	26.9
Glen Parva	20.3	20.6	20.0	19.2	18.9	18.4
Gloucester	24.4	23.7	24.1	22.4	22.3	23.3
Grendon	28.9	30.2	30.9	28.3	24.0	28.1
Guys Marsh	31.2	32.6	33.4	34.6	19.9	30.5
Haslar	28.8	29.0	26.6	28.1	23.8	28.0
Hatfield	37.8	38.7	39.6	42.3	40.3	38.7
Haverigg	33.8	36.1	36.4	37.9	38.3	35.5
Hewell Grange	41.5	44.0	42.5	14.7	43.3	41.3
Highdown	19.7	19.9	19.9	19.3	19.9	19.3
Highpoint	18.4	18.7	18.0	18.1	16.6	12.3
Hindley	20.1	18.4	17.2	19.7	21.6	20.8
Hollesley Bay	36.0	34.2	34.2	34.2	32.7	36.2
Holloway	19.3	19.1	17.4	17.7	21.1	21.5
Holme House	15.0	15.8	15.0	14.0	16.0	16.5
Hull	21.5	23.6	19.6	24.2	23.7	22.5
Huntercombe	23.5	28.9	27.2	27.7	26.3	24.1
Kingston	31.4	29.8	30.5	29.9	27.4	29.3
Kirkham	45.5	46.8	47.7	49.6	49.1	48.4
Kirklevington	45.0	45.4	45.2	44.8	44.2	45.0
Lancaster	23.9	24.7	17.6	25.0	21.2	24.3
Lancaster Farms	24.9	27.4	27.2	27.1	26.2	24.9
Latchmere House	72.3	69.7	73.9	78.5	76.3	73.3
Leeds	17.3	17.0	17.2	17.1	16.2	17.7
Leicester	20.4	21.1	21.1	21.4	20.4	21.5
Lewes	22.6	23.4	23.4	23.7	22.3	21.9
Leyhill	33.9	35.9	37.2	40.4	41.2	40.3
Lincoln	15.6	20.5	20.7	20.2	18.9	15.0
Lindholme	24.8	25.4	26.5	26.3	27.4	25.7
Littlehey	30.7	32.4	33.3	34.0	32.8	28.9
Liverpool	18.9	20.6	18.7	19.0	18.8	17.3
Long Lartin	20.9	20.2	21.5	16.2	17.9	19.7
Low Newton	23.9	23.5	24.9	25.1	24.8	25.0
Maidstone	20.7	22.1	23.1	23.5	21.9	22.4
Manchester	19.7	20.2	19.8	20.9	20.2	24.3
Moorland	21.6	21.5	23.0	23.7	20.9	25.6
Morton Hall	41.0	39.8	40.5	41.3	41.1	40.4
Mount	20.1	20.7	19.8	21.1	19.8	19.0
New Hall	28.6	28.9	28.0	27.1	28.5	24.4
North Sea Camp	46.5	44.5	47.7	43.6	43.2	38.8
Northallerton	18.7	19.5	20.2	19.7	18.8	18.7
Norwich	19.9	19.7	17.4	14.9	13.5	11.5
Nottingham	24.4	24.8	25.4	23.1	25.2	26.2
Onley	n/a	20.6	23.0	24.1	20.1	21.3
Parkhurst	17.2	16.5	17.1	18.2	19.0	19.1
Pentonville	13.5	15.5	13.9	17.7	18.4	18.7
Portland	23.7	25.4	25.2	27.1	25.0	24.7
Prescoed	43.2	44.3	42.5	46.0	41.5	43.1
Preston	19.4	22.3	22.1	21.2	21.6	19.9
Ranby	25.8	30.1	30.4	30.1	29.4	31.1
Reading	30.5	30.5	28.7	27.7	29.0	26.4
Risley	26.1	27.1	20.5	24.5	24.3	22.6
Rochester	22.3	21.0	18.9	23.5	24.2	22.2
Send	33.9	36.1	36.8	38.0	39.2	36.3
Shepton Mallet	23.9	25.8	24.7	25.8	25.3	25.6
Shrewsbury	21.5	21.4	19.7	20.0	17.7	20.5
Spring Hill	34.1	37.9	38.4	40.2	39.8	39.8
Stafford	26.5	28.5	28.4	28.3	27.7	25.6
Standford Hill	43.7	43.2	45.1	45.5	45.8	45.9
Stocken	28.4	30.7	28.8	29.4	28.2	26.4
Stoke Heath	28.0	28.9	27.4	30.2	28.2	27.9
Styal	26.0	29.1	29.2	30.8	31.0	30.9
Sudbury	46.9	49.0	48.3	48.7	51.0	48.0
Swaleside	22.6	22.6	23.5	22.1	23.0	23.8
Swansea	19.5	18.6	17.0	16.0	17.9	18.4
Swinfen Hall	21.3	28.3	28.5	27.2	23.8	25.7
Thorn Cross	43.1	44.7	48.3	46.2	49.1	50.2
Usk	31.7	32.5	33.5	36.2	31.6	32.4
Verne	27.8	30.6	31.2	30.5	31.7	31.0
Wakefield	18.5	18.5	17.7	18.0	13.0	16.4
Wandsworth	23.3	22.1	17.4	26.8	25.3	25.6
Warren Hill	24.1	20.4	24.9	25.5	22.1	19.8
Wayland	24.6	27.2	27.1	27.5	27.9	25.7
Wealstun Closed	29.9	33.2	33.5	32.3	32.2	26.4
Wealstun Open	40.5	44.4	43.4	45.6	44.4	36.9
Wellingborough	26.2	27.4	28.0	27.8	27.2	24.9
Werrington	40.1	40.8	38.1	40.2	35.1	37.6
Wetherby	33.7	36.4	37.7	39.4	39.4	37.6
Whatton	32.2	31.4	32.8	31.0	30.6	32.1
Whitemoor	21.2	20.8	21.7	20.6	16.7	19.1
Winchester	14.3	19.2	18.6	18.4	19.1	17.1
Wolds	31.0	31.2	32.8	31.7	31.3	31.3
Woodhill	22.1	26.0	24.0	25.0	27.7	23.9
Wormwood Scrubs	15.7	17.8	17.8	16.7	15.7	15.3
Wymott	34.2	35.4	34.6	33.2	34.5	33.0

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(b) Average weekly hours spent in purposeful activity 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
Male local	19.5	19.9	20.1	20.4	19.8	19.5
Dispersal	20.9	21.6	22.1	22.5	23.8	21.6
Category B	22.1	23.6	23.5	24.1	22.9	22.6
Category C	27.9	30.1	30.2	30.6	30.3	29.3
Male Open	40.1	40.2	42.9	43.1	43.4	42.0
Male remand centre	24.3	24.7	24.6	23.9	23.3	23.6
Male closed young offender institution	24.9	26.0	26.8	27.0	26.4	25.9
Male open young offender institution	40.9	40.4	44.1	44.6	44.3	43.2
Male juvenile institution	39.6	44.8	41.5	43.9	43.2	41.8
Female local	20.3	20.0	22.8	22.5	20.9	20.9
Female closed	24.5	25.7	25.7	26.4	25.3	25.5
Female open	36.4	36.8	39.0	40.1	40.6	38.2

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

Prison type	October 1995	November 1995	December 1995	January 1996	February 1996	March 1996
Male local	20.0	19.7	18.2	20.0	20.3	20.7
Dispersal	22.1	20.8	18.6	20.1	20.1	20.9
Category B	24.0	24.6	21.9	23.2	22.6	22.9
Category C	30.4	30.8	27.7	29.1	30.1	30.0
Male open	43.9	43.0	39.3	42.6	44.2	45.3
Male remand centre	23.7	23.7	21.5	23.0	22.8	23.1
Male closed young offender institution	26.5	26.8	24.2	26.0	26.8	25.9
Male open young offender institution	43.0	45.4	43.8	47.6	45.5	46.0
Male juvenile institution	40.8	41.7	37.9	40.0	42.2	40.6
Female local	19.6	19.6	19.4	21.7	22.9	20.5
Female closed	24.8	25.8	22.2	23.2	24.8	24.2
Female open	40.2	39.3	33.6	37.2	36.5	38.1

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 363

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 363

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

Prison type	April 1996	May 1996	June 1996	July 1996	August 1996	September 1996
Male local	19.6	20.6	19.8	20.4	20.2	19.4
Dispersal	19.5	20.6	20.7	20.0	18.0	19.4
Category B	20.8	21.5	21.5	22.1	22.1	21.9
Category C	27.0	28.6	28.5	29.1	28.5	27.4
Male open	40.8	42.4	42.7	42.3	43.6	42.3
Male remand centre	22.4	22.1	21.4	19.9	20.2	20.5
Male closed young offender institution	23.7	24.5	24.8	25.3	23.2	23.7
Male open young offender institution	41.2	42.5	43.8	44.8	44.8	45.2
Male juvenile institution	40.1	40.8	38.1	40.2	35.1	37.6
Female local	22.0	22.0	20.8	20.7	22.9	22.5
Female closed	26.8	28.9	28.8	29.3	27.6	27.9
Female open	36.6	37.4	38.1	37.5	38.1	37.9

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 365

16 Jan 1997 : Column: 365

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

Month	Purposeful activity hours
April 1995	24.4
May 1995	25.4
June 1995	25.7
July 1995	26.0
August 1995	25.5
September 1995	25.0
October 1995	25.7
November 1995	25.6
December 1995	23.2
January 1996	24.8
February 1996	25.3
March 1996	25.7
April 1996	23.9
May 1996	25.0
June 1996	24.6
July 1996	25.0
August 1996	24.5
September 1996	24.0

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