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Written Ministerial Statements

Monday 10 March 2003

HOME DEPARTMENT

Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts 2001–02 (Erratum)

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Hilary Benn): Due to an error, the expenditure figures reported in appendix 2 of the Prison Service annual report and accounts for 2001–02 (HC 957) are incorrect.

Amended expenditure, cost per place and cost per prisoner figures are given in the table.

	Expenditure 2001–02 £	Cost PerPlace £	Cost Per Prisoner £
Acklington	12,306,951	15,738	16,459
Albany	9,638,824	21,612	21,853
Altcourse	30,595,345	49,695	37,029
Ashfield	12,542,677	30,817	33,314
Ashwell	7,977,359	16,465	20,204
Askham Grange	2,802,068	21,029	22,431
Aylesbury	10,900,371	26,077	31,466
Bedford	8,449,674	23,819	20,414
Belmarsh	30,948,620	38,702	36,608
Birmingham	16,696,491	23,173	19,839
Blakenhurst	9,672,424	14,950	11,540
Blantyre House	2,490,332	20,753	21,315
Blundeston	9,982,610	24,568	24,074
Brinsford	12,069,795	25,304	26,767
Bristol	17,134,205	35,063	29,872
Brixton	19,503,711	29,960	25,756
Brockhill	5,643,993	34,000	36,729
Buckley Hall	6,696,946	19,134	20,469
Bullingdon	15,178,114	19,648	17,073
Bullwood Hall	5,623,916	31,244	33,693
Camp Hill	10,096,506	20,991	19,231
Canterbury	6,268,130	31,657	21,955
Cardiff	13,370,996	25,521	20,800
Castington	11,168,010	24,278	37,740
Channings Wood	11,238,889	18,921	19,108
Chelmsford	11,573,580	25,834	24,770
Coldingley	7,909,234	21,338	21,754
Cookham Wood	3,576,878	29,807	24,264
Dartmoor	14,631,698	21,438	24,369
Deerbolt	9,711,053	20,487	23,968
Doncaster	18,369,239	23,825	17,028
Dorchester	5,726,272	33,292	23,785
Dover	6,728,429	21,292	33,600
Downview	7,158,940	25,334	35,572
Drake Hall	5,694,213	18,309	24,784
Durham	22,550,479	35,290	32,303
East Sutton Park	2,198,632	23,390	23,705
Eastwood Park	7,352,500	24,924	23,403
Elmley	15,151,353	19,858	16,523
Erlestoke	6,191,130	18,991	19,398
Everthorpe	7,959,428	18,172	18,446
Exeter	10,282,669	32,033	21,467
Featherstone	12,549,693	20,951	21,337
Feltham	24,346,837	28,915	37,471
Ford	6,271,678	12,518	15,260
Forest Bank	19,522,324	24,403	23,243
Foston Hall	5,299,241	25,611	27,422
Frankland	24,550,210	37,596	38,480
Full Sutton	23,541,026	39,040	39,827
Garth	12,879,054	20,346	21,016
Gartree	8,886,522	24,280	31,522
Glen Parva	16,615,880	25,024	21,642
Gloucester	7,417,888	31,432	25,869
Grendon	11,293,398	22,177	25,345
Guys Marsh	8,103,303	16,639	15,928
Haslar	2,847,598	17,797	19,526
Hatfield	4,116,132	22,867	24,428
Haverigg	9,638,719	17,398	17,955
Hewell Grange	3,018,642	15,681	18,022
High Down	17,266,744	26,605	24,374
Highpoint	16,860,131	19,159	20,056
Hindley	13,429,476	24,935	30,032
Hollesley Bay	12,625,347	27,269	37,678
Holloway	20,210,798	39,668	41,622
Holme House	16,789,328	18,524	17,891
Hull	13,824,391	23,425	24,056
Huntercombe	9,984,812	27,736	30,628
Kingston	4,748,471	24,603	26,102
Kirkham	10,642,725	18,445	22,226
Kirklevington	2,806,220	15,335	16,355
Lancaster	5,718,902	23,829	25,268
Lancaster Farms	11,715,333	23,620	23,478
Latchmere House	3,052,466	15,748	17,842
Leeds	23,291,510	30,015	18,876
Leicester	8,204,348	37,837	23,989
Lewes	9,985,425	20,589	21,672
Leyhill	8,585,073	20,939	22,592
Lincoln	11,655,841	25,561	22,666
Lindholme	15,386,512	23,635	24,941
Littlehey	10,376,197	16,629	16,653
Liverpool	25,565,332	21,163	18,957
Long Lartin	20,122,537	33,594	47,431
Low Newton	7,547,572	30,393	27,454
Lowdham Grange	12,694,649	25,188	25,667
Maidstone	10,405,357	18,625	27,607
Manchester	26,037,371	27,350	22,245
Moorland	15,006,469	20,279	19,625
Morton Hall	4,821,307	25,111	27,265
Mount	11,565,509	16,405	15,896
New Hall	10,405,367	31,821	28,731
North Sea Camp	3,738,139	16,763	19,369
Northallerton	5,080,145	33,385	26,164
Norwich	14,164,851	25,534	19,509
Nottingham	10,413,672	23,757	20,786
Onley	13,504,211	21,100	24,617
Parc	28,811,957	35,266	32,237
Parkhurst	12,434,863	25,798	28,450
Pentonville	22,239,323	24,793	19,136
Portland	11,313,801	22,097	23,949
Preston	13,192,099	30,614	23,816
Ranby	12,851,506	18,012	17,623
Reading	6,761,178	34,019	28,700
Risley	16,393,281	19,899	20,462
Rochester	8,790,555	20,864	35,686
Rye Hill	14,567,327	24,279	24,635
Send	4,609,307	20,951	21,315
Shepton Mallet	4,833,094	25,304	29,470
Shrewsbury	6,518,034	35,264	19,762
Stafford	10,624,651	16,945	17,201
Standford Hill	7,308,028	19,031	21,106
Stocken	9,454,466	17,004	16,493
Stoke Heath	13,554,911	22,445	25,959
Styal	10,894,273	26,442	25,375
Sudbury	7,606,310	14,712	15,213
Swaleside	13,493,143	17,953	17,933
Swansea	7,511,933	30,787	28,920
Swinfen Hall	7,445,594	23,322	23,883
Thorn Cross	7,359,861	23,291	33,671
Usk	6,805,526	27,132	21,016
Verne	9,534,353	17,272	16,823
Wakefield	19,914,099	26,695	35,688
Wandsworth	25,450,136	22,070	18,735
Wayland	9,928,885	16,014	15,821
Wealstun	10,870,434	17,200	17,990
Weare	7,340,016	18,350	19,478
Wellingborough	9,133,034	17,631	18,163
Werrington	5,058,625	38,962	41,778
Wetherby	8,594,400	23,873	26,438
Whatton	4,877,528	17,736	18,048
Whitemoor	22,611,769	44,687	56,837
Winchester	11,907,739	27,125	20,498
Wolds	8,642,518	24,007	21,665
Woodhill	22,103,665	32,649	32,807
Wormwood Scrubs	23,256,552	19,424	22,778
Wymott	14,929,816	18,455	18,897

An erratum to the Prison Service annual report and accounts2001–02 will be placed in the Library.

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Human Trafficking

The Minister for Citizenship and Immigration (Beverley Hughes): I am pleased to announce new measures to support female victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the UK.

The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum (NIA) Act 2002, introduced a new offence that commenced on 10 February 2003 of "trafficking a person for the purpose of controlling him or her in prostitution."

From today, safe accommodation and a range of services will be provided to support female victims of human trafficking through a non-governmental organisation. A six-month pilot scheme located in London will cater for approximately 25 women, on a rolling basis, who meet the criteria for access to the services, including a willingness to come forward and co-operate with the authorities in the combating of international organised crime that could lead to prosecutions of criminals.

We will consider, in light of individual circumstances, whether it would be appropriate to allow such victims who have co-operated to remain here. Where they are to return home, we will assist them to do so, providing them with initial counselling, ensuring that they have suitable accommodation to return to, and providing help to enable them to re-integrate into their own community and find employment.

We are also publishing a new "best practice toolkit" for the police, immigration officers and others who deal with illegal immigrants and trafficking victims. The toolkit will help them to identify victims and to provide practical advice on how to deal with them appropriately.

The Sexual Offences Bill, introduced into the House of Lords on 28 January 2003 also proposes new comprehensive offences of trafficking for sexual exploitation to replace the stop-gap offence introduced by the NIA Act 2002 of Trafficking in Prostitution. These new offences tackle the movement of people into, within and out of the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation, and will carry maximum penalties of 14 years imprisonment. The offence relating to trafficking within the UK applies equally to UK nationals trafficked from place to place in the UK, and to foreign nationals brought here and then moved around from place to place within the UK. This is the first time that the trafficking of UK nationals within the UK has been tackled in legislation.

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Internationally, we are committed to addressing the issue of trafficking by our involvement with the EU Framework Decision on combating the trafficking of human beings, and the UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking. I believe the trafficking provisions in this Bill meet the requirements of the EU decision, and the UN Protocol and indeed go further in that they criminalise trafficking for a sexual offence per se, whereas the protocol specifies it ought to be criminal only in certain circumstances, for example, where forcer, coercion or abduction are involved.

They also go further than the provisions in the NIA Act in specifying that it will be a criminal offence to traffic someone for the purposes of submitting them to a sex offence, rather than limiting this to trafficking them for the purposes of exploiting their prostitution. This allows us to offer greater protection against all forms of sexual trafficking, for example, for those who are trafficked in order to be sexually assaulted by others where there is no prostitution taking place.

In addition the Bill introduces new offences to tackle directly the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The activities that the offences cover include buying the sexual services of a child, causing or encouraging a child into commercial sexual exploitation, facilitating the commercial sexual exploitation of a child, and controlling the activities of a child involved in prostitution. The maximum penalties available for these offences will range from seven years to life imprisonment depending upon the nature of the offence committed and the age of the child victim.

All these provisions together, will set in place a comprehensive framework of robust legislation and improved support that will enable us both to bear down on perpetrators, often organised criminals, and provide a better response to victims.

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