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Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a list of unclassified papers produced in the made available series of papers by the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate since January 1997, specifying the title of each paper and the date on which it was produced. [65060]
Mr. Boateng:
The information is as follows:
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| Name | Date produced |
|---|---|
| Voluntary After-Care | 1997 |
| Options for improved support for victims and other witnesses attending Magistrates' courts | May 1997 |
| The processing of Rape Cases by the Criminal Justice System | November 1997 |
| The effects of Video violence on Young Offenders | 1998 |
| Trends in Crime Revisited | 1998 |
| Reconviction after sentence: a six year follow up of people sentenced in the Crown Court in 1996 | January 1998 |
| A Survey of Custody Officers' Views on New Provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 | March 1998 |
| The Impact of the National Lottery on the Horserace Betting Levy: Technical Supplement | July 1998 |
| The Impact of the National Lottery on the Horserace Betting Levy: Third Report | July 1998 |
| Evolving Crack Cocaine Careers, New User, Quitters and Long Term Combination Drug Users in North West England | September 1998 |
| Transfers from prison to hospital: the Operation of Section 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983 | October 1998 |
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Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a list of unclassified papers produced in the Briefing Notes series of papers by the Police and Reducing Crime Unit since January 1997, specifying the title of each paper and the date on which it was produced. [65059]
Mr. Boateng: All main series reports produced by the Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit are circulated with a short briefing note summarising the main findings and points for action. Occasionally, the Unit prepares a stand alone briefing note which may be an extended summary of a piece of work which we do not justify a full report, or as an interim report on a project which is attracting interest. There have been two publications in this Briefing Note series since January 1997:
- 1/98 Domestic Violence and Repeat Victimisation (August 1998)
- 2/98 Planning Police Trainee Throughput: some good practice suggestions (August 1998).
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Papers published in the Briefing Note series are included in the Unit's general publications list, which is published on the World Wide Internet and is also freely available from the Unit. An up-to-date list will be placed in the Library.
Mr. Sandeep Bansall
Mr. Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received concerning the prison placement of Mr. Sandeep Bansall. [65178]
Mr. George Howarth: The hon. Member wrote to my noble Friend, the Lord Williams of Mostyn, the Minister with responsibility for prisons and probation, and made representations over the telephone to the Director General of the Prison Service, requesting Mr. Bansal's transfer from Pentonville prison.
Mr. Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when Mr. Sandeep Bansall will be moved from Pentonville prison; [65180]
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Mr. George Howarth:
Mr. Sandeep Bansall was temporarily transferred on 22 December 1998 from Pentonville prison to Leicester prison. As this is a local prison, whose primary purpose is to serve the courts, he was then allocated to Ashwell, a training prison near Leicester, and moved there on 30 December 1998.
Mr. Yeo:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of the pigmeat imported from outside the United Kingdom which was purchased for consumption in prisons in each of the last three years. [65118]
Mr. George Howarth:
Up to and including 31 March 1998, all pigmeat consumed in prisons in England and Wales was produced by the Prison Service's own farms. Since that date, all pigmeat has been purchased on contract.
The contractors have advised that all pork supplied to the Prison Service has been of British origin, as has 80 per cent. of the bacon. The remaining 20 per cent. of bacon was imported, primarily from Holland, and cost approximately £60,000.
Ms Buck:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of section 11 funding was spent in each education authority area in England and Wales in 1997-98; and what percentage of pupils were covered by the grant in each case. [63694]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The table relates to the maximum grant payable to each local education authority (LEA) in respect of the 1997-98 financial year, expressed as a percentage of the total maximum grant payable to LEAs. The figures refer to projects for various educational purposes, in schools and in other sectors. The types of project vary between authorities.
(2) what steps have been taken by the prison authorities to place Mr. Sandeep Bansall nearer his family. [65179]
The following show the estimated approximate division of the grant allocated to the lead authority among the LEAs in question:
1 Bristol: 93%. Bath & North Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire: 7%.
(6) Buckinghamshire: 80%. Milton Keynes: 20%.
(7) Darlington: 60%. Durham: 40%.
(8) Derby City: 95%. Derbyshire: 5%.
(9) Hull: 80%. East Riding of Yorkshire: 20%.
(10) Middlesbrough: 63%. Stockton: 27%. Redcar and Cleveland, and Hartlepool: 10%.
(11) North Yorkshire: 34%. City of York: 66%.
(12) Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset: about one third each.
(13) Staffordshire: 40%. Stoke-on-Trent: 60%.
(14) Swindon: 60%. Wiltshire: 40%.
Note:
In a number of cases, local education authorities had entered into agreements with neighbouring LEAs to act as the "lead authority" in a joint arrangement for administrative purposes. In these, grant allocations were made to the lead authority, which would distribute funding to each LEA.
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