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Prisoners (Purposeful Activity)

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average number of hours of purposeful activity by each prisoner in each week in each Prison Service establishment and in total in (a) 1999 to date, (b) 1998, (c) 1997 and (d) 1992; and if he will make a statement. [102659]

Mr. Boateng: The average weekly number of purposeful activity hours per prisoner for each establishment and in total for the financial years in question are given in the table.

The table excludes establishments where data for the complete period are not available.

Purposeful activity 1992-93, 1997-98, 1998-99,April 1999-October 1999

Prison name	1992-93	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000
Acklington	26.3	25.5	23.8	23.9
Albany	--	24.0	23.8	23.7
Aldington	33.0	30.4	28.1	26.7
Altcourse	32.8	--	20.5	24.8
Ashwell	--	32.6	33.3	31.3
Askham Grange	22.4	41.8	42.0	39.8
Aylesbury	20.3	22.6	20.9	18.2
Bedford	14.0	25.6	22.7	22.9
Belmarsh	16.3	11.8	13.2	12.5
Birmingham	--	10.9	13.3	14.7
Blakenhurst	29.9	20.1	21.8	22.1
Blantyre House	21.2	34.2	39.6	41.7
Blundeston	17.2	23.2	25.8	24.9
Brinsford	20.2	15.3	16.3	17.3
Bristol	10.6	20.1	21.3	20.2
Brixton	--	17.1	15.7	9.1
Brockhill	19.2	30.7	21.1	16.5
Buckley Hall	--	32.8	26.6	31.2
Bullingdon	19.5	20.9	21.2	14.6
Bullwood Hall	25.6	21.6	19.1	20.3
Camp Hill	24.8	20.9	19.3	18.9
Canterbury	21.0	17.5	18.5	18.8
Cardiff	22.8	22.0	21.3	20.6
Castington	26.1	23.4	20.7	19.8
Channings Wood	16.7	29.6	30.5	34.0
Chelmsford	28.5	16.0	15.8	16.2
Coldingly	26.2	38.1	40.7	42.3
Cookham Wood	20.4	23.6	22.3	24.5
Dartmoor	24.3	18.8	18.9	20.8
Deerbolt	20.9	21.7	19.9	20.8
Doncaster	--	16.7	17.0	18.5
Dorchester	25.7	16.2	14.4	14.6
Dover	25.3	21.7	21.2	23.4
Downview	37.9	31.5	30.8	29.8
Drake Hall	13.5	35.1	34.9	35.8
Durham	36.2	16.7	20.2	19.1
East Sutton Park	--	38.4	40.1	41.4
Eastwood Park	--	19.7	21.6	21.4
Elmley	26.6	19.0	20.2	20.7
Erlestoke	23.8	29.0	27.2	29.2
Everthorpe	--	25.8	27.0	27.0
Exeter	30.2	17.9	13.6	12.4
Featherstone	11.0	23.7	24.7	26.1
Feltham	35.9	19.6	15.5	15.2
Ford	21.8	33.7	35.6	39.6
Foston Hall	--	--	23.4	25.4
Frankland	20.4	17.0	18.4	19.6
Full Sutton	20.8	18.0	17.6	21.5
Garth	29.5	21.0	21.3	21.3
Gartree	--	26.5	27.0	28.1
Glen Parva	15.8	16.5	16.7	16.8
Gloucester	25.3	20.6	26.4	29.5
Grendon	39.9	33.3	34.2	34.7
Guys Marsh	25.5	30.9	22.8	26.8
Haslar	36.9	21.4	18.8	19.0
Hatfield	34.2	37.2	32.5	41.0
Haverigg	40.5	33.8	33.9	34.1
Hewell Grange	24.5	41.2	42.7	41.5
Highdown	--	15.7	13.9	16.0
Highpoint	17.4	17.7	23.2	21.8
Hindley	28.4	20.1	23.8	23.2
Hollesley Bay	20.2	28.1	28.1	33.8
Holloway	17.8	18.7	17.6	10.2
Holme House	--	16.0	15.8	16.4
Hull	21.4	18.6	20.0	21.9
Huntercombe	25.7	25.1	23.8	25.5
Kingston	44.7	28.6	23.9	23.5
Kirkham	--	54.8	43.5	43.8
Kirklevington	26.7	48.8	50.1	52.1
Lancaster	21.9	22.8	20.7	21.6
Lancaster Farms	--	22.4	20.5	20.2
Latchmere House	16.4	72.7	70.2	76.5
Leeds	18.2	15.5	14.8	14.0
Leicester	14.1	21.4	20.5	19.7
Lewes	41.0	18.5	18.5	17.8
Leyhill	22.7	38.6	39.0	38.5
Lincoln	23.6	19.6	22.9	24.7
Lindholme	28.0	25.3	24.2	26.7
Littlehey	18.2	29.8	26.0	25.9
Liverpool	19.9	16.5	19.0	22.5
Long Lartin	19.6	15.6	17.0	16.4
Low Newton	19.1	21.7	20.2	23.9
Lowdham Grange	--	--	25.2	25.4
Maidstone	17.6	22.5	21.3	22.8
Manchester	19.6	29.4	26.7	22.9
Moorland	41.8	25.3	24.0	22.8
Morton Hall	27.1	39.1	37.9	41.7
Mount	33.2	18.4	18.0	19.1
New Hall	--	22.9	23.7	23.1
North Sea Camp	25.8	42.4	45.0	41.7
Northallerton	22.5	14.7	14.5	14.9
Norwich	24.9	18.1	18.0	18.2
Nottingham	24.3	18.1	15.3	20.6
Onley	20.4	20.0	18.4	17.5
Parc	--	--	30.0	46.7
Parkhurst	20.7	20.1	19.5	20.8
Pentonville	23.8	19.6	20.3	19.9
Portland	19.1	29.4	23.1	23.0
Preston	--	17.4	17.1	15.9
Ranby	22.0	30.2	26.4	25.7
Reading	26.5	24.2	23.8	29.5
Risley	22.8	22.7	21.9	22.5
Rochester	33.9	18.7	19.1	17.8
Send	24.2	35.1	40.7	33.5
Shepton Mallet	20.2	23.7	22.7	20.7
Shrewsbury	17.8	21.4	22.7	22.6
Stafford	38.0	25.0	22.4	23.6
Standford Hill	29.6	43.8	44.1	39.5
Stocken	27.7	27.1	23.2	22.2
Stoke Heath	29.8	21.6	21.6	22.2
Styal	46.0	28.6	28.7	16.9
Sudbury	21.1	47.2	44.5	43.9
Swaleside	18.8	22.0	22.3	22.4
Swansea	31.2	15.0	20.0	20.6
Swinfen Hall	41.2	25.5	28.9	30.5
Thorn Cross	31.5	50.3	50.3	46.2
Usk	28.4	35.5	34.9	37.3
Verne	19.1	30.9	27.2	32.7
Wakefield	17.0	17.8	18.2	20.2
Wandsworth	26.3	22.0	18.9	17.6
Wayland	36.7	24.6	24.0	24.5
Wealstun	28.2	33.7	30.6	33.4
Weare	--	--	20.8	21.0
Wellinborough	41.4	25.1	24.9	25.5
Werrington	33.0	36.5	24.0	37.1
Wetherby	33.1	29.5	28.3	27.7
Whatton	13.7	30.6	28.8	30.1
Whitemoor	22.3	18.5	19.6	21.5
Winchester	--	17.2	15.7	15.6
Wolds	--	31.0	29.1	29.4
Woodhill	14.8	20.9	19.8	17.7
Wormwood Scrubs	28.6	13.6	14.2	17.2
Wymott	--	34.4	28.7	30.3

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Service purposeful activity

	Purposeful activity	Target
1992-93	23.7	--
1997-98	23.3	22.5
1998-99	22.8	24
April-October 1999	23.1	24

Clear-up Rates

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of cleared-up crime was committed by (a) males under 18, (b) males between 18 and 25, (c) males over 25, (d) females under 18, (e) females between 18 and 25 and (f) females over 25 in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [102655]

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Mr. Charles Clarke: The statistics on cleared up crime are not collected centrally by age or sex. However, the Cautions and Court Proceedings Databases contain details of persons cautioned or convicted by age and sex from which the figures in the table have been derived.

Persons cautioned or convicted for an indictable offence by ageand sex in 1998--England and Wales

	Total	Expressed as a percentage of all persons cautioned or convicted
Males
Aged 10 to 17	99,027	19
Aged 18 to 25	166,795	31
Aged 26 or over	170,034	32
All males	435,856	82
Females
Aged 10 to 17	27,891	5
Aged 18 to 25	29,992	6
Aged 26 or over	38,253	7
All females	96,136	18
All persons
Aged 10 to 17	126,918	24
Aged 18 to 25	196,787	37
Aged 26 or over	208,287	39
All persons	531,992	100

Prisoner Behaviour

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of (a) incidents of concerted indiscipline, (b) incidents of self harm and (c) suicides in each Prison Service establishment and in total in (i) 1999 to date, (ii) 1998, (iii) 1997 and (iv) 1992; and if he will make a statement. [102658]

Mr. Boateng: The information requested is given in tables which have been placed in the Library.

The Government are committed to doing everything possible to try to reduce the number of self-inflicted deaths and incidents of self-harm in prisons. The Prison Service is developing a whole range of additional measures to address this issue and to provide further help and protection to those considered to be at risk of self-harm; this work is being informed by the recommendations of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons' Thematic Review published in May of this year.

The Prison Service is also increasing the involvement of external interest groups through a regular working group and in projects and research into suicides. There has been for some time a close working relationship with the Samaritans who have a great deal of expertise in this area. Listener schemes, whereby prisoners offer support to fellow prisoners in crisis, are now established in over 100 prisons in England and Wales, the majority of which are supported by the Samaritans.

In addition, instructions and guidance to staff on caring for the suicidal are being re-examined and drawn together in a new Prison Service Order (PSO) which it is hoped will be ready for issue in April 2000. This will highlight good practice and strengthen strategies to provide care for those prisoners at risk.

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There has been a substantial decrease in the number of concerted acts of indiscipline since 1992 (other than a brief rise in 1998). The Prison Service routinely monitors trends to detect any increase in the seriousness and frequency of acts of indiscipline. In the meantime, it continues to develop control and restraint techniques to ensure that staff can respond effectively to these incidents when they occur.

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