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Frozen Assets (Charities)
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total value is of the accounts frozen by the Charity Commission on the basis of possible links of these charities to terrorist organisations. [136426]
Fiona Mactaggart: This is a matter for the Charity Commission as the Department responsible for the regulation of charities in England and Wales. The Chief Charity Commissioner will write to my hon. Friend and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Library.
Information Technology
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Prison Service spent on purchasing and upgrading IT equipment (a) in 2003 and (b) in 2002; and what this cost per prison employee. [135897]
Paul Goggins: The Prison Service entered into a contract with EDS in 2000 for the provision of a fully managed information technology and telephony service. Payment is based on the number of personal computers supported under the contract. The cost of the IT element only of the contract, together with the cost of non-IT activities, amounted to £32,094,111 in 2001–02 and £47,471,074 in 2002–2003. This is equivalent to £728 per average full time equivalent employee in 2001–2002 and £1,045 in 2002–2003.
(15) Figures do not take into account new staff who were still in the recruitment process at 30 June 2003
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Inner London Probation Service
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many vacancies there are in the Inner London Probation Service; and if he will make a statement. [136863]
Paul Goggins: The information requested is as follows:
| Number of Vacancies(16) | |
|---|---|
| London Probation Area | Vacancies as at 30 June(17) (FTE) |
| Senior Probation Officers | 4.00 |
| Senior Practitioners | 0.00 |
| Probation Officers | 0.00 |
| Trainee Probation Officers | 0.00 |
| Probation Services Officers | 160.00 |
| Psychologists | 0.50 |
| Other Operational Staff | 0.00 |
| Total Operational Staff | 164.50 |
| Deputy Chief Officers/Directors | 0.00 |
| Assistant Chief Officers or Equivalent | 2.00 |
| Area/District Managers or Equivalent | 0.00 |
| Managers—Section or Function Heads | 0.00 |
| Support Staff—Administration | 0.00 |
| Support Staff—Others | 0.00 |
| Other Specialist Workers | 0.00 |
| Total Support Staff | 2.00 |
| Total(18) | 166.50 |
(16) Figures shown as a Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
(17) Unable to obtain information from 3 (out of 42) Areas in time to make this response.
(18) Figures exclude those employed within and by the National Probation Directorate
Note:
The levels of vacancies across Area amount to 5.26 per cent. of the total workforce of the service. This is slightly below the national average of vacancies across the service of 5.43 per cent.
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Lancashire Constabulary
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what central Government spending was on the Lancashire Constabulary in each year since 1992. [134901]
Ms Blears: The information available is set out in the tables.
| Government Grant(19) | |
|---|---|
| Thousands | |
| 1992–93(20) | N/a |
| 1993–94(20) | N/a |
| 1994–95(20) | N/A |
| 1995–96 | 136,337 |
| 1996–97 | 143,926 |
| 1997–98 | 146,860 |
| 1998–99 | 153,628 |
| 1999–2000 | 155,938 |
| 2000–01 | 163,676 |
| 2001–02(21) | 172,966 |
| 2002–03(21) | 177,420 |
| 2003–04 | 187,365 |
(19) Government Grant includes Home Office Police grant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Revenue Support Grant and national non domestic rates, Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Grant, Basic Command Unit funding, Community Support Officer funding, DNA Expansion Programme, Street Crime Initiative and Special Priority payments.
(20) Before 1995–96, when most Police Authorities became independent local authorities, revenue support grant and non-national domestic rates were paid as part of respective county council grant funding.
(21) The grant figures for 2001–02 and 2002–03 are not directly comparable, as the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service became centrally rather than locally funded from 2002–3. Based on the new arrangements, the comparable grant figure for 2001–02 would have been £168,818,571.
In addition, Lancashire received the following funding in capital grant, including Airwave and the Premises Improvement Fund.
| Thousands | |
|---|---|
| 1995–96 | 4,148 |
| 1996–97 | 2,730 |
| 1997–98 | 2,208 |
| 1998–99 | 2,414 |
| 1999–2000 | 2,183 |
| 2000–01 | 5,141 |
| 2001–02 | 13,395 |
| 2002–03 | 6,441 |
| 2003–04 | 5,094 |
Leyhill Prison
Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes have been made to the criteria for allocating inmates to HMP Leyhill; and if he will make a statement. [136450]
Paul Goggins [holding answer 4 November 2003]: Leyhill prison is an open training prison. Sentenced prisoners may be assessed for categorisation and allocation to open conditions either on initial categorisation following sentencing or during their sentence following a review of their security category.
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Initial categorisation procedures consider: current offence, sentence length, previous offending, previous escapes or absconds and previous breaches of non-custodial disposals. For prisoners indicated for category D, consideration is also given to issues such as: current drug use: any previous breaches of bail; the circumstances of the offence and vulnerability to bullying or coercion.
Prisoners have their security category reviewed at regular intervals. Prisoners must be able to demonstrate that their risk is reduced sufficiently to warrant recategorisation to conditions of lower security. Where category D is indicated, consideration is given to any other issues which might suggest that the prisoner is otherwise unsuitable for open conditions.
Revised initial categorisation and recategorisation forms were introduced in April 2003 and their use is being monitored. However, the procedures detailed above remain unchanged. No changes have been made locally to the acceptance criteria at Leyhill prison.
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