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Women Offenders

Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to evaluate programmes developed specifically for women offenders. [206012]

Paul Goggins: The Department published 'Focus on female offenders: the Real Women Programme—Probation Service pilot in March 2004, which reported on the pilot programme for women who commit acquisitive crime. A programme for violent Women (CARE) is at the development stage as part of the joint prison and probation strategy for interventions for women. There are no plans for further female specific programmes or evaluation but information on how National Offender Management Service (NOMS) interventions affect female offenders will be collected as part of the RDS NOMS research programme where possible and appropriate. This is supported by the Women's Offending Reduction Programme, also published in March 2004.

Young Offenders

Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people aged under 18 years were received into prison (a) under sentence and (b) on remand in (i) 2003, (ii) 2002 and (iii) 2001. [200435]

Paul Goggins: The number of receptions of young people aged under 18 years into prison establishments, as recorded on the Prison Service central IT system, is provided in the table.
 
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Young people aged under 18 are also held outside of prison establishments in Secure Training Centres and Local Authority Secure Children's Homes.
Receptions into prison establishments of persons aged under 18, by year of reception and custody type(145): England and Wales

RemandImmediate custodial sentence
20014,9785,903
20025,4275,738
20035,1384,918


(145) Total receptions cannot be calculated by adding together receptions in each category, because there is double counting.


Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many black and minority ethnic young men aged 18 to 21 years were received into prison in 2002 (a) under sentence and (b) on remand. [200466]

Paul Goggins: The requested information, as recorded on the Prison Service Central IT system, is provided in the table.
Receptions(146) into prison establishments of males aged 18 to 21 years, by custody type, age at reception and ethnic group: England and Wales, 2002

Age
18192021
Remand:
White3,4793,7453,7313,654
Black611631639594
South Asian126133146201
Chinese and other224226234233
Unrecorded1736
Immediate custodial sentence:
White3,1804,0353,9583,877
Black414467471474
South Asian131139155224
Chinese and other148199199203
Unrecorded2774


(146) Total receptions cannot be calculated by adding together receptions in each category, because there is double counting.


Youth Justice

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the (a) organisations, (b) associations, (c) agencies and (d) representative bodies he has consulted on youth justice issues in the last 12 months. [200339]

Paul Goggins: The following list shows the organisations we have consulted on youth justice issues in the last 12 months—in various ways including through a conference, various meetings and the issue of consultation papers. In addition, between October and December 2003 we consulted through young people's websites on our policy paper Youth Justice—The Next Steps, attracting 7,860 responses


 
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