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Drugs Misuse (Manchester)
Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what public funds were spent on tackling drugs misuse in Manchester Gorton in (a) 1997–98 and (b) 2003–04. [167470]
Caroline Flint: Figures are not available for 1997–8.
Figures for 2003–04 are available for Manchester as a whole only. In 2003–04 the following amounts were spent on tackling drugs misuse in Manchester City Council area.
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Adult Pooled Treatment Budget: | 3,390,000 |
| Young People's Pooled Budget | 996,485 |
| Building Safer Communities | 1,082,189 |
| Criminal Justice Interventions Programme (Capacity Building and Throughcare and Aftercare) | 800,000 |
| Drug Testing (within Greater Manchester Police Force area) | 1,198,491.65 |
| Total | 7,467,165.65 |
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Gamekeepers
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department How many gamekeepers have been convicted in the last 10 years of the illegal killing of hen harriers. [167197]
Caroline Flint [holding answer 22 April 2004]: Information collected centrally by the Home Office on court proceedings in relation to wildlife does not enable the type of bird involved to be identified, nor the status of the person convicted.
Justice and Home Affairs Council
Mr. Connarty: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the outcome was of the Justice and Home Affairs Council held on 30 March; what the Government's stance was on the issues discussed, including its voting record; and if he will make a statement. [165594]
Caroline Flint: I wrote to the European Scrutiny Committee on 5 April reporting the outcome of the Justice and Home Affairs Council.
Parole
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many life sentence prisoners have been released on parole during each of the last 48 months. [168020]
Paul Goggins: The requested information is shown in the table.
(20) Information for April 2000-March 2001 relates to first time release cases only. Subsequent data also include cases where prisoners have been re-released following recall from life licence.
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Part 1 Warrant
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the information required to be provided on the face of a part 1 warrant, including a European Arrest Warrant, is specified in legislation. [165887]
Caroline Flint: The information required to be provided on the face of a part 1 warrant is specified in section 2 of the Extradition Act 2003.
Prison Drug Treatments
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost per offender was of each drug treatment and testing order in 2003 in (a) Nottinghamshire and (b) England. [168209]
Paul Goggins: This information is not held centrally but the recent report by the National Audit Office, "The Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO): early lessons" reported that the unit cost of an order in 2002–03 in the areas they visited varied from £5,258 to £7,592. Nottingham Probation Area has advised us that the approximate average cost of a DTTO in Nottinghamshire was £5,363.
Prisoners
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in 2003 began training, education or offender behaviour programmes but were unable to complete these courses due to (a) transfer to another establishment and (b) release from custody. [168028]
Paul Goggins: In 2003 approximately 8,300 prisoners began accredited offending behaviour programmes. Of the 6,946 commencements of general offending behaviour programmes—Enhanced Thinking Skills and Reasoning and Rehabilitation—95 prisoners (1.4 per cent.) did not complete because they were transferred and 16 (0.2 per cent.) did not complete because they were released. The percentage of prisoners not completing other accredited programmes for these reasons would have been similar or lower.
Equivalent information on non-completion is not collected centrally for prisoners' training and education.
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John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were assessed as having drug-related problems on (a) entry to and (b) exit from each (i) HM Prison Service establishment and (ii) privately run prison establishment since January 2003. [168206]
Paul Goggins: Figures on the number of prisoners assessed on entry as having a drug-related problem are not recorded centrally, but epidemiological studies show around 54 per cent. of new receptions to be problematic drug misusers and that around 80 per cent. of prisoners had used drugs at some point before coming into custody. All prisoners receive a healthcare assessment on reception. This resulted in detoxification being provided to 50,701 prisoners in 2002–03, 4,085 of whom were in the contracted estate.
All prisons employ drug counselling, assessment, referral and throughcare (CARATs) teams, who, among other tasks, are responsible for putting problematic drug using prisoners in touch with community support on leaving prison. CARATs teams dealt with 52,000 prisoners in 2002–03 at all stages in their sentence.
No separate assessment of drug-related problems is made at the point offenders leave prisons. There will always be a heightened risk of relapse on return to the community and a key aim of the Criminal Justice Interventions Programme is to strengthen continuity of treatment and reduce that risk.
Prisons
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, under future market tests of publicly run prisons, staff transferred to a private sector operator will be protected by the two tier workforce provisions applicable to local government employees in a similar position. [161960]
Paul Goggins: The Home Office complies with policy for Central Government Departments and Agencies on the handling of staff transfers. The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 ("TUPE") govern the majority of such staff transfers and contractors are normally also required to apply the principles set out in the Cabinet Office Statement of Practice "Staff Transfers in the Public Sector" and its annex "A Fair Deal for Staff Pensions". The Home Office does not propose to extend this further to mirror the two-tier workforce provisions contained in the Local Government Code of Practice on Workforce Matters.
Young Offenders
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders were held in secure accommodation by each local authority social services department on the latest date for which figures are available. [164203]
Paul Goggins:
The number of young offenders held under sentence in local authority secure children's homes on 29 March 2004, by Youth Offending Team, is given in the table.
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