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Driving Disqualification/Offences

Mr. Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were disqualified from driving in England and Wales in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003 under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. [184767]

Caroline Flint [holding answer 16 July 2004]: The number of people disqualified at all courts in England and Wales as a result of 'totting up' of points on their driving licence under s.35 of the Road Traffic offenders Act 1988 is 30, 498 for the year 2002.

Data for 2003 will not be available until the autumn.

Michael Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) prosecutions were brought against and (b) cautions were given to drivers on motorways in the last 24 months for (i) speeding and (ii) non-speeding offences. [184956]

Caroline Flint: Information collected centrally on prosecutions for speeding and other road traffic offences does not distinguish the type of road on which the offence took place.

The available information for the year 2002 showing the total number of fixed penalties, written warnings issued and court proceedings in England and Wales for Motorway offences (other than speeding) under the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 s. 17(4) and Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 Regs. 5–12 and 14 are given in the table.

Data for 2003 will not be available until the autumn.
Motorway offences⁽⁷⁰⁾(other than speeding) by type of police action, England and Wales, 2002

Type of action	Number of offences
Total Court proceedings	2,947
Fixed penalty notices issued	5, 292
Written warnings issued	354
Total	8,593

⁽⁷⁰⁾ Offences under s. 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982.

Drug/Alcohol Treatment

Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding is available for drug addiction treatment of prisoners and ex-prisoners over the next five years (a) in Leeds and (b) in total. [181974]

Paul Goggins: It is not possible to differentiate between funding provided to treat ex-prisoners and others who access treatment in the community.

Table 1 shows the amount of funding available for all forms of drug treatment for prisons in the Leeds area. Funding is allocated on an annual basis, and therefore the figures for prisons in the Leeds area are provided only for 2004–05.
Table 1: Drug treatment funding in prisons in the Leeds area, 2004–05

Prison	Funding (£)
Leeds	1,200,000
Wealstun	332,000
Wetherby	118,000

 
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Table 2 shows the total funding for drug treatment in adult prisons and juvenile establishments until March 2006, which is the latest date for which funding decisions have been taken.
Table 2: Total drug treatment in adult prisons and juvenile establishments until March 2006 1 £

	2004–05	2005–06
Prison Service(72)	44,900,000	52,400,000
Department of Health	3,900,000	3,900,000
Youth Justice Board(73)	10,000,000	10,000,000
Total	58,800,000	66,300,000

⁽⁷¹⁾ These are ring-fenced funds, made available from spending reviews since 1997–98.
⁽⁷²⁾ This figure includes £5,000,000 from the Home Office for the CJIP initiative.
⁽⁷³⁾ The YJB funding shown includes funding for secure training centres and local authority secure children's homes. The allocation for Juvenile Prisons are as follows:
2004–05: £2,500,000
2005–06: £3,200,000
Note:
All funding is projected and therefore still subject to negotiation. The remaining four years will be determined by further allocations made from SR2004.

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to ensure that sufficient funds are made available for treatment programmes for all young people convicted of drug and alcohol offences. [184203]

Caroline Flint: Early identification of substance misuse problems and the provision of appropriate early intervention and treatment for young offenders is a key element of the young people's strand of the National Drug Strategy.

The Young People's Substance Misuse Grant brings together a number of funding streams which total £59 million for the development of young people's substance misuse services, alongside mainstream resources by Drug Action Teams.

Over £18 million of the Young People's Partnership Grant is currently invested in the provision of specialist young people's drug treatment services.

£30 million has been made available over three years for the development of an Integrated Substance Misuse Programme for the Secure Estate—Young Offenders Institutes, Secure Training Centres and Local Authority Secure Children's Homes.

As part of this programme of work Youth Offending Teams screen all young offenders and provide early intervention and/or onward referral to specialist young people's drug treatment services.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether drug testing on charge is in place in Crosby. [177936]

Caroline Flint: Drug testing of persons in police detention (after charge) is not currently available in Crosby.
 
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Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to require prisons to record the proportion of prisoners who complete drug treatment following detoxification. [182230]

Paul Goggins: There are currently no plans to require prisons to record the proportion of prisoners who complete drug treatment following detoxification.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the effectiveness of drug treatment programmes within prisons. [182300]

Paul Goggins: Due to the need to wait two years for reconviction results, only a limited research base is so far available on the effectiveness of prison-based drug rehabilitation programmes in reducing re-offending.

Emerging research into the RAPt ¹ programme is showing encouraging results, with 40 per cent. of graduates, rather than an expected 51 per cent., re-offending within two years. However, such results can only be achieved where effective through-care arrangements are made and timely after-care services are available in the community.

¹ RAPt—Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of people receiving drug treatment while in prison were offered aftercare on their release in each year since 1997. [182301]

Paul Goggins: Data are not collected centrally on those people that receive drug treatment in prison and who are subsequently offered aftercare on release.

Drugs

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to ensure that recreational drugs remain illegal; and if he will encourage police to prosecute criminals who supply such drugs. [184021]

Caroline Flint: The Government have no intention of legalising any currently controlled drug. The Government takes the supply and possession of illegal drugs very seriously. We work closely with the police to focus more effectively to disrupt the drug supply chain at all levels and prosecute offenders. The Drugs Strategy makes clear our priority is to tackle Class A drug supply offences. The Strategy is supported by the police as we all recognise that Class A drugs do most harm to individuals and to communities.

Electronic Tagging

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many criminals were released in Essex with electronic tags in each year since tagging was introduced. [183601]

Paul Goggins: The area in which electronically tagged prisoners reside upon release is not recorded centrally.

The number of prisoners released on the Home Detention Curfew Scheme (HOC) from HMP Bullwood Hall and HMP Chelmsford in each year since the scheme began, and to 31 May 2004, is provided in the table.
 
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Prisoners released on the HOC scheme from Essex prisons, by year of release

	Number
1999	121
2000	150
2001	142
2002	316
2003	278
2004	58

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