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Camp Hill Prison

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the visits room at Camp Hill prison will be refurbished. [153737]

Paul Goggins: Work to improve the visiting facilities at Camp Hill prison is continuing. A painting programme has begun and the heating system has been upgraded.

Carter Report

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what impact he expects the implementation of the report by Patrick Carter, "Managing Offenders, Reducing Crime", will have on the numbers of prisoners remanded in custody. [153147]

Paul Goggins: These issues are currently being considered by the National Offender Management Service Implementation Team.

Consultation

Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those individuals and organisations (a) to whom (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) the non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible sent a copy of the consultations (A) Safety and Justice:

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the Government's proposals on domestic violence and (B) Funding community groups: a consultation document issued by the Government's Active Community Unit on behalf of the Inter-Departmental Working Group on Resourcing Community Capacity Building, and (b) from whom each received a response in each case. [151654]

Fiona Mactaggart: Government are committed to ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are identified and involved in consultation exercises. Our records show that paper or electronic copies of "Safety and Justice" were sent to the following organisations:















































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Many of the above organisations, either on their own initiative or at the prior request of the Home Office, forwarded additional copies across their own distribution networks. A number of copies were also sent to private individuals, while others were distributed at the consultation workshops the Home Office held with domestic violence victims.

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English and Welsh language versions of "Safety and Justice" were also available from the Home Office website. In addition, the Home Office produced—and made available in both paper and electronic format—a summary leaflet, which was also translated into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

The Home Office received a total of 470 responses to "Safety and Justice". A list of all the organisations that responded can be found in Annex A of the "Summary of Responses to 'Safety and Justice: The Government's Proposals on Domestic Violence'", copies of which are available in the House Library and at: http://www. homeoffice.gov.uk/crimpol/crimreduc/domviolence/publist.html.

A consultation document "Funding Community Groups" was published on 3 May 2001, and just under 7,000 copies were sent to interested groups in the voluntary and community sector, other Government Departments and local authorities. The document was also posted on the Home Office website making it more widely available. The consultation period was from 3 May to 23 July 2001, which included 27 consultation events around the country with a speaker from the Active Community Unit. A total of 235 written responses were received.

Many groups held their own meetings with local partners and contributed a joint response, 172 were received from respondents representing several organisations and 63 from individual organisations. Therefore, the total number of responses of 235 is representative of a much larger unknown number of organisations and individuals.

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