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Asylum Seekers

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the (a) nationality and (b) future rights of those no longer eligible for the special voucher scheme. [46319]

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Angela Eagle: I refer the hon. Member to the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary during the second reading of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill on 24 April 2002, Official Report, column 354.

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultation was carried out prior to the abolition of the special voucher scheme. [46318]

Angela Eagle: We consulted with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and entry clearance posts abroad on the current use of the scheme and the implications of its abolition.

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which detention centres for asylum seekers (a) provide and (b) have provided on-site education; for each centre that provided on-site education which (i) private and (ii) public organisation provided the education; and what elements of the national curriculum are followed in each of the centres. [51136]

Angela Eagle: In addition to the provision of adult education at removal centres, there is provision for on-site education of children at Harmondsworth and Dungavel removal centres. There was also provision for education at Yarl's Wood removal centre.

Harmondsworth removal centre is managed and operated by UK Detention Services. Dungavel removal centre is managed and operated by Premier Detention Services Ltd. In both cases, the contractor makes provision for education and employs suitably qualified staff as managers of education.

The profile and numbers of children at an immigration removal centre changes from day to day. Education provision at the centres needs therefore to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the needs of a variable number of children of variable ages and abilities.

In both Harmondsworth and Dungavel a programme of modular education is delivered. These programmes concentrate on numeracy and literacy and the national curriculum, and the Scottish equivalent for Dungavel, provides the framework from which these programmes have been developed.

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost per pupil of education provision in detention centres has been in the last year for which figures are available. [51659]

Angela Eagle [holding answer 23 April 2002]: No figures are available. The cost of adult and child education provision will differ from removal centre to removal centre and will form just one element of the overall cost of the contracts to run the individual centres.

Prison Population

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes have occurred in the (a) numbers and (b) percentages of (i) women and (ii) men imprisoned in each of the past 10 years; and what his estimate is of the likely changes in the next three years. [54020]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested in given in the tables.

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Male prison population on 30 June 1992–2001, with numerical and percentage changes from previous year

Population on 30 JuneActual change since previous yearPercentage change since previous year
199245,2771,1953
199342,666-2,611-6
199447,1254,45910
199549,0881,9634
199652,9513,8638
199758,7955,84411
199862,6073,8126
199961,3221,3152
200061,839-2,983-3
200162,6908511

Female prison population on 30 June 1992–2001, with numerical and percentage changes from previous year

Population on 30 JuneActual change since previous yearPercentage change since previous year
19921,555111
19931,580252
19941,80422414
19951,99819411
19962,30530715
19972,67236716
19983,12044817
19993,207873
20003,3551485
20013,71335811

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Long-term projections of male and female prisoners, projected through to 2005 (average population)—produced October 2001

Central variant200320042005
Total70,20072,90074,900
Male65,70068,20070,000
Female4,4904,7104,910
High scenario
Total72,90076,70079,600
Male67,80071,00073,600
Female5,1705,6206,050

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the total prison population per 100,000 of the population; and what the comparable figures are for each of the past five years in other Council of Europe member states. [54018]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested appears in the table.

Prison population rate(16) per 100,000 population (Council of Europe member states)

199619971998199920002001
Albania(17)(17)85(17)(17)(17)
Andorra(17)(17)(17)30(17)(17)
Armenia(17)(17)200(17)(17)210
Austria8486858584(17)
Azerbaijan(17)325325(17)(17)(17)
Belgium768277808383
Bosnia and Herzegovina(17)(17)(17)3545(17)
Bulgaria126142(17)(17)115(17)
Croatia454750(17)(17)60
Cyprus3540(17)3743(17)
Czech Republic202209217224208188
Denmark616263666158
Estonia(17)300(17)303325334
Finland585655465660
France909089918077
Georgia(17)(17)190(17)(17)(17)
Germany839095979798
Greece515468727676
Hungary129136142161157155
Iceland(17)4335(17)30(17)
Ireland626871727682
Italy858687899497
Latvia405407(17)360355368
Liechtenstein(17)(17)(17)75(17)(17)
Lithuania323356(17)385257313
Luxembourg104(17)919092(17)
Malta62(17)70(17)68(17)
Moldova263(17)(17)(17)265(17)
Netherlands758775848793
Norway525356(17)(17)(17)
Poland148148153142170207
Portugal140145144131127131
Romania194197(17)(17)222225
Russian Federation713(17)690729(17)(17)
San Marino(18)(17)(17)(17)(17)(17)(17)
Slovakia144138(17)(17)132135
Slovenia3139(17)485758
Spain(17)113111111114102
Sweden655960596468
Switzerland858879817971
The Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia504955(17)70(17)
Turkey8794100(17)7483
Ukraine425415(17)(17)435(17)
United Kingdom:
England and Wales107120126125124127
Northern Ireland989591696051
Scotland101119117118115(17)

(16) Based on estimates of national population

(17) Data not available

(18) Included in figures for Italy

Source:

Statistical contacts in each country, Council of Europe


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