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Police Vehicles

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accidents involving police vehicles there have been in each year since 1997 in (a) Essex and (b) Southend. [218275]

Ms Blears: The available information is given in the table. Information on accidents involving police vehicles in Southend is not collected centrally.
Road traffic collisions on public roads in Essex in which police vehicles were involved

	Number of collisions
1997–98	396
1998–99	406
1999–2000	392
2000–01	446
2001–02	392
2002–03	414
2003–04	345

Ports of Entry (Security)

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to increase security at ports of entry. [219869]

 
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Mr. Charles Clarke: We have already made significant improvements to the security of the border with;

the closure of the Red Cross centre in Sangatte;

the expansion of our juxtaposed controls, (the establishment of frontier control zones in key locations overseas to enable UK immigration officers to consider and decide the admissibility of passengers prior to embarkation for the UK);

the deployment of new detection technology;

and the expansion of our airline liaison network overseas.

These measures have had a significant impact both on deterring illegal immigration and reducing asylum intake.

In our five-year strategy we announced our intention to further improve border controls through initiatives such as a further expansion of the asylum liaison network and the introduction of iris biometric automated gates at our major ports. Also, all visa applicants will be fingerprinted by 2008, and pre-boarding checks of all persons entering and leaving the UK will be introduced through the e-borders programme.

Postage

Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on postage by the Department in each year since 1997. [215022]

Fiona Mactaggart: The table provides the total cost of postage for the Home Department since 1997. The table also expresses the total as a percentage of Home Office spend for the relevant year.
Postage costs

	£	Percentage
1997	1,166,810	0.018
1998	1,076,196	0.013
1999	1,228,042	0.015
2000	1,819,914	0.020
2001	3,049,765	0.03
2002	2,713,405	0.026
2003	2,653,684	0.025

Prisons

Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many instructional officers serving in Her Majesty's prisons are on the old contract; and in which prisons they serve. [220244]

Paul Goggins: As at 28 February there were 32 instructional officers on the old contract serving in the following establishments:

Establishment	Number of instructional officers
Belmarsh	1
Channings Wood	1
Maidstone	1
Leyhill	1
Huntercombe	1
Featherstone	2
Kingston	2
Wandsworth	2
The Mount	7
Acklington	14

 
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Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether instructional officers in Her Majesty's prisons who have not signed up to the new contract are required to carry out escort duties in any prison. [220246]

Paul Goggins: No. One of the new terms and conditions introduced on 1 April 2003 for instructional officers, was that instructional officers will escort prisoners as required by management once the activity has been risk assessed and a safe system of work applied". The terms and conditions for those instructional officers who decided not to accept the changes to working practices remain unchanged.

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department(1) how many prison places are planned for each of the next five years; and what the projected prison population is for each of the next five years; [205384]

(2) how much prison capacity he expects to be available in each of the next five years. [217731]

Mr. Charles Clarke: As at 18 February 2005, the useable operational capacity for the prison estate was 76,527. It is anticipated that the operational capacity will be around 76,700 at 31 March 2005 and has the potential to reach 79,500 by 31 March 2006. In addition, planning for a programme of an additional 1,300 places has started. In the meantime, we continue to investigate options for providing further increases in capacity over the coming years and keep the number of prison places required under review.

Revised prison population projections were issued in January 2005. These new projections anticipate a prison population of between 76,500 and 86,000 in 2009. The National Offender Management Service will continue to monitor population movements, improve projections and keep prison capacity under review. Projected prison population for each of the next five years is presented in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 01/05 (Prison Population Projections 2005–11, England and Wales). A copy of this bulletin has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average amount of time spent on purposeful activity per week broken down by individual prison has been in each year since 1997. [217751]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The average number of weekly purposeful activity hours for each establishment during each of the financial years since 1996–97 is shown in the table.
 
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Establishment	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05 to January
Acklington	25.6	25.5	23.8	23.8	23.5	23.2	23.6	24.4	24.4
Albany	18.8	24.0	23.8	19.2	23.5	24.2	21.6	22.2	20.6
Altcourse	n/a	24.6	20.5	25.5	32.9	34.3	32.7	34.4	36.8
Ashfield	n/a	n/a	n/a	24.0	28.3	27.1	25.7	29.3	31.1
Ashwell	33.0	32.6	33.3	30.8	31.1	31.7	29.2	31.0	30.5
Askham Grange	39.3	41.8	42.0	41.6	41.2	41.1	41.0	41.4	41.4
Aylesbury	25.5	22.6	20.9	18.4	15.7	17.4	17.8	19.1	20.5
Bedford	26.5	25.6	22.7	22.9	20.9	19.8	17.7	18.1	19.9
Belmarsh	12.7	11.8	13.2	12.8	13.3	11.0	11.3	14.6	16.2
Birmingham	12.8	10.9	13.3	15.2	16.0	19.3	19.9	18.8	18.2
Blakenhurst	23.2	20.1	21.8	22.1	23.3	18.9	19.6	19.1	20.2
Blantyre House	33.0	34.2	39.5	43.6	47.6	49.0	40.7	40.5	44.3
Blundeston	21.7	23.2	25.8	24.5	26.2	25.8	23.1	21.9	24.9
Brinsford	17.1	15.3	16.3	16.8	21.9	27.5	26.1	28.7	28.7
Bristol	19.6	20.1	21.3	20.9	22.6	21.1	21.3	22.3	21.3
Brixton	16.0	17.1	15.7	11.1	15.6	16.6	12.7	10.4	15.4
Brockhill	31.4	30.7	21.1	18.2	20.8	18.2	16.1	18.1	23.1
Buckley Hall	28.5	32.8	26.6	31.7	31.8	30.3	26.8	30.8	31.2
Bullingdon	23.6	20.9	21.2	14.4	14.6	13.8	13.7	17.5	18.6
Bullwood Hall	24.7	21.6	19.0	19.6	21.5	27.2	27.9	27.7	28.2
Camp Hill	26.1	20.9	19.3	19.9	22.0	21.4	19.3	19.1	21.6
Canterbury	20.6	17.5	18.5	19.9	19.6	18.0	17.4	21.9	22.1
Cardiff	22.4	22.0	21.3	20.6	23.6	20.4	19.1	21.5	24.1
Castington	22.3	23.4	20.7	19.8	24.6	25.1	21.9	22.9	28.0
Channings Wood	25.3	29.6	30.5	34.9	33.6	33.5	31.2	28.6	27.5
Chelmsford	18.2	16.0	15.8	16.8	18.2	18.8	15.4	15.8	19.5
Coldingley	33.1	38.1	40.7	43.8	40.9	38.2	35.3	34.0	35.0
Cookham Wood	24.9	23.6	22.3	24.4	24.2	22.0	23.0	22.5	25.4
Dartmoor	19.4	18.8	18.9	19.9	18.0	21.6	20.9	23.3	24.8
Deerbolt	21.7	21.7	19.9	21.1	21.4	21.1	19.9	20.5	23.1
Doncaster	24.0	16.7	17.0	18.3	19.1	20.1	19.6	19.6	20.6
Dorchester	19.3	16.2	14.4	19.5	17.2	15.7	18.2	17.6	16.3
Dovegate	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	27.5	25.7	25.5	21.6
Dover	23.2	21.7	21.2	23.4	25.2	27.3	22.5	n/a	n/a
Downview	28.7	31.5	30.8	29.8	30.5	23.7	24.7	23.2	28.9
Drake Hall	35.9	35.1	34.9	35.9	35.8	35.8	33.5	33.3	35.3
Durham	17.6	16.7	20.2	18.7	19.8	20.3	19.1	18.0	17.7
East Sutton Park	37.3	38.4	40.1	40.1	41.2	42.0	43.1	46.4	46.0
Eastwood Park	21.7	19.7	21.6	21.6	23.6	19.4	18.8	17.9	18.6
Edmunds Hill	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21.0	26.1
Elmley	19.8	19.0	20.2	21.8	21.6	18.6	18.6	20.6	19.0
Erlestoke	28.4	29.0	27.2	28.4	26.8	27.9	27.1	25.5	26.6
Everthorpe	23.5	25.8	27.0	26.3	27.1	28.0	31.6	28.1	25.1
Exeter	18.9	17.9	13.6	15.0	23.0	22.9	21.6	22.5	23.2
Featherstone	24.9	23.7	24.7	26.1	24.3	24.2	24.4	23.0	22.1
Feltham	20.0	19.6	15.5	15.2	14.4	24.7	22.3	28.1	28.5
Ford	34.6	33.7	35.6	38.8	38.3	39.8	39.4	37.6	38.1
Forest Bank	n/a	n/a	n/a	18.5	27.5	21.7	19.2	20.9	23.5
Foston Hall	—	21.3	23.4	25.7	25.4	25.4	25.3	24.5	24.1
Frankland	18.1	17.0	18.4	19.4	21.3	20.9	21.6	22.2	21.9
Full Sutton	22.1	18.0	17.6	18.7	17.8	17.4	16.8	19.0	19.8
Garth	19.5	21.0	21.3	21.2	23.7	23.4	23.4	24.2	23.7
Gartree	23.2	26.5	27.0	28.4	30.1	30.5	28.9	30.5	28.6
Glen Parva	18.8	16.5	16.7	16.0	18.3	18.2	17.9	17.4	18.0
Gloucester	22.7	20.6	26.4	29.4	29.5	20.5	16.2	20.2	20.2
Grendon	32.1	33.3	34.2	35.2	37.2	35.6	33.4	32.5	31.6
Guys Marsh	30.8	30.9	22.8	27.9	26.5	22.6	22.7	22.4	24.5
Haslar	25.6	21.4	18.8	16.1	16.7	15.2	15.0	15.4	16.4
Hatfield	39.5	37.2	32.5	40.6	36.7	37.1	38.4	n/a	n/a
Haverigg	35.0	33.8	33.9	33.8	33.6	31.1	30.4	29.9	29.3
Hewell Grange	41.6	41.2	42.7	41.8	44.3	42.6	41.1	42.1	42.0
High Down	17.5	15.7	13.9	16.4	15.8	15.9	14.1	15.2	14.4
Highpoint	16.1	17.7	23.2	20.9	18.9	18.9	18.0	19.9	20.2
Hindley	19.0	20.1	23.8	24.0	28.6	20.5	34.9	34.5	32.2
Hollesley Bay	27.3	28.1	28.1	33.8	36.2	36.5	32.6	38.3	42.8
Holloway	17.6	18.7	17.6	15.4	21.9	20.3	15.8	16.9	20.2
Holme House	16.0	16.0	15.8	16.6	16.6	15.5	14.4	15.8	16.7
Hull	20.6	18.6	20.1	22.5	21.9	20.5	15.3	15.8	16.0
Huntercombe	25.6	25.1	23.8	26.3	23.9	26.7	26.5	30.1	30.0
Kingston	28.1	28.6	23.S	23.9	24.2	24.3	23.3	25.1	26.0
Kirkham	48.3	54.8	43.5	44.3	43.7	43.4	41.3	40.4	41.7
Kirklevington	45.1	48.8	50.1	52.5	54.3	51.6	53.0	51.7	53.8
Lancaster	22.6	22.7	20.7	23.2	28.7	24.9	22.9	23.7	25.7
Lancaster Farms	23.1	22.4	20.5	20.6	22.5	22.6	23.3	26.1	25.8
Latchmere House	72.2	72.8	70.2	74.1	63.6	61.2	55.6	57.6	59.4
Leeds	16.8	15.5	14.8	14.5	16.5	18.7	17.5	18.1	21.7
Leicester	21.3	21.4	20.5	19.3	19.0	21.0	21.4	23.1	23.2
Lewes	22.2	18.5	18.5	18.8	18.0	18.6	19.5	21.0	21.6
Leyhill	38.5	38.5	39.0	38.8	39.0	37.8	39.1	37.9	37.5
Lincoln	18.1	19.6	22.9	24.9	24.5	18.6	18.3	19.3	20.9
Lindholme	25.7	25.3	24.2	26.9	26.7	27.7	24.3	25.9	27.0
Littlehey	30.6	29.8	26.0	25.5	23.5	23.1	21.5	20.2	20.5
Liverpool	18.0	16.5	18.7	22.6	22.9	17.7	14.0	18.6	22.3
Long Lartin	18.8	15.6	17.0	16.5	17.8	18.3	18.5	15.7	19.5
Low Newton	23.7	21.7	20.2	25.5	25.1	23.7	23.9	24.6	24.9
Lowdham Grange	n/a	n/a	25.3	24.7	24.0	27.2	27.5	26.8	26.8
Maidstone	20.8	22.5	21.3	22.3	21.7	21.0	17.6	19.1	21.4
Manchester	20.6	29.4	26.7	22.2	19.4	19.7	19.8	19.6	19.4
Moorland	22.9	25.3	24.0	23.1	24.7	25.0	25.3	27.6	28.1
Morton Hall	39.9	39.1	37.8	41.4	41.7	30.7	32.0	31.9	31.3
Mount	19.2	18.4	18.0	18.6	18.3	20.0	19.7	20.4	21.8
New Hall	26.8	22.9	23.8	23.1	23.5	22.9	24.1	23.5	24.9
North Sea Camp	42.5	42.4	45.1	41.0	42.3	42.2	41.8	40.4	39.5
Northallerton	16.3	14.7	14.S	17.6	18.8	22.1	23.3	22.3	24.9
Norwich	15.1	18.1	18.0	19.2	20.0	18.9	17.4	17.9	21.6
Nottingham	23.4	18.1	15.3	20.6	18.3	17.2	18.1	19.2	20.7
Onley	20.5	20.0	18.4	17.4	18.6	18.0	23.0	28.1	26.3
Parc	n/a	n/a	30.0	36.2	25.3	26.8	24.4	26.3	31.1
Parkhurst	17.8	20.1	19.5	21.5	20.5	19.1	15.2	20.3	21.3
Pentonville	17.8	19.6	20.3	20.4	17.8	15.0	14.1	14.1	13.1
Portland	27.1	29.4	23.1	22.8	23.4	24.5	23.2	20.9	19.1
Preston	20.5	17.4	17.1	16.8	21.6	21.1	19.8	21.1	20.9
Ranby	29.3	30.2	26.4	25.8	25.4	23.6	24.1	25.1	25.4
Reading	26.8	24.2	23.8	31.7	29.2	24.4	19.3	18.3	22.5
Risley	23.8	22.7	21.9	22.3	23.8	25.2	22.7	23.7	24.3
Rochester	20.7	18.7	19.1	17.5	21.5	23.0	22.7	20.2	23.1
Rye Hill	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26.0	29.4	28.5	28.5	27.5
Send	34.0	35.1	40.6	31.6	31.7	31.4	30.0	30.6	29.9
Shepton Mallet	25.5	23.7	22.7	20.7	23.6	23.0	23.5	24.6	24.4
Shrewsbury	21.1	21.4	22.7	23.2	24.9	23.8	17.8	19.5	20.0
Stafford	25.6	25.0	22.4	24.8	26.5	26.4	26.3	24.1	24.7
Standford Hill	43.9	43.7	44.1	39.7	41.0	39.7	39.8	38.1	37.0
Stocken	27.8	27.1	23.2	22.1	23.2	23.2	26.1	26.0	25.2
Stoke Heath	27.9	21.6	21.6	22.5	24.4	25.8	20.4	21.8	23.2
Styal	29.5	28.6	28.7	21.7	24.3	24.9	21.9	21.0	23.7
Sudbury	46.2	47.2	44.5	43.4	41.7	41.5	42.0	42.0	41.3
Swaleside	20.3	22.0	22.3	21.3	25.2	24.4	24.4	27.2	24.8
Swansea	16.1	15.0	20.0	20.8	22.4	22.0	19.7	21.1	23.0
Swinfen Hall	25.0	25.5	28.9	30.7	28.9	28.0	27.2	28.7	25.0
Thorn Cross	50.5	50.3	50.3	45.3	42.7	43.9	42.7	42.8	43.3
Usk·Prescoed	35.7	35.5	34.9	37.5	38.8	37.9	37.1	35.9	35.9
Verne	30.6	30.9	27.2	30.9	27.6	28.4	31.6	30.9	31.4
Wakefield	17.8	17.8	18.2	20.0	19.0	18.2	18.0	16.0	16.8
Wandsworth	23.5	22.0	18.9	18.4	18.1	17.1	16.7	16.8	16.2
Warren Hill	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26.2	22.3
Wayland	25.4	24.6	24.0	24.0	23.3	20.8	24.7	24.8	26.2
Wealstun	35.9	33.7	30.6	32.9	32.8	32.6	32.5	33.0	29.5
Weare	n/a	19.6	20.8	20.7	19.9	18.8	17.8	18.6	19.9
Wellingborough	26.2	25.1	24.9	25.0	25.3	28.1	25.0	22.6	22.6
Werrington	38.7	36.5	24.0	37.9	37.1	32.6	30.1	27.3	30.0
Wetherby	35.9	29.5	28.3	27.9	26.6	27.1	28.9	29.1	27.8
Whatton	31.9	30.6	28.8	29.9	29.9	30.7	29.8	29.8	31.8
Whitemoor	20.3	18.5	19.6	21.4	21.6	20.2	20.6	21.2	21.3
Winchester	17.7	17.2	15.7	15.2	16.8	19.0	18.8	20.4	22.1
Wolds	30.8	31.0	29.1	28.9	28.5	28.3	28.7	29.2	29.7
Woodhill	22.6	20.9	19.8	17.9	17.6	16.0	16.2	15.4	16.0
Wormwood Scrubs	14.4	13.6	14.2	19.3	21.3	18.5	14.6	18.4	22.2
Wymott	33.7	34.4	28.7	29.8	27.3	27.7	28.3	30.9	28.4

Notes:
1.Moorland and Hatfield merged in 2003–04.
2.Highpoint and Edmunds Hill began reporting separately in 2003–04.
3.Hollesley Bay and Warren Hill began reporting separately in 2003–04.





 
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David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what definition of purposeful activity in prison he uses. [217752]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The Prison Service definition of purposeful activity for 2004–05 consists of a list of 29
 
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categories of activity undertaken by prisoners that are regarded as purposeful. Broadly these comprise work, education, training, programmes to tackle offending behaviour, resettlement activity and physical education. Prisons report the total weekly purposeful activity hours they deliver by these categories of activity. The categories of activity are listed in the following table.
Purposeful activities

Activity group	Activities Include:
Education
Induction Assessment	Basic skills screening assessments
Basic and Key Skills up to Level 2	All education categories can include private study or 'homework' by prisoners where this can be validated and an audit trail maintained
Education leading to accreditation	Education activity where prisoners are working towards a recognised qualification (but excluding education leading to basic skills qualifications categorised above)
Skills training leading to recognised national accreditation	Vocational construction and industrial training courses e.g. industrial cleaning, catering, motor mechanics, office skills, hairdressing, painting, construction, electrical
Physical Education	PE where physical education officers teach and supervise prisoners
Other education	Not categorised elsewhere, including library use of more than 30 minutes
Work
Prison maintenance work	Support to works and maintenance staff around the prison
Wing cleaning work	Cleaning work on wings
Other prison cleaning and orderly work	Cleaning and orderly work around the prison other than on domestic wings
Industries/ production workshops (Prison Enterprise Services Workshops on regime monitoring system)	Employment in production or industrial workshops such as textiles tailors, laundries, plastics, woodwork contract services etc (Any workshop that is predominately production based)
Agricultural business	Employment in prison farms, market gardens
Gardens amenity	Employment on prison gardens
Kitchen	Preparation or serving of food in prison kitchens, hotplate/serveries or messes
Other occupations	Employment not categorised elsewhere, (e.g. clothing exchange store workers, administrative clerks, barbers, paid community work)
Resettlement
Induction	Prison induction courses
Maintaining safe and secure environment	Primary objective of activity relates to institutional behaviour e.g. suicide awareness, anti bullying
Sentence planning, parole interviews, other assessments with the prisoner not categorised elsewhere
Accredited Offending Behaviour Programmes (OBPs)	Key performance indicator accredited courses
Non accredited OBPs	Any other programmes not categorised elsewhere
Tackling substance abuse	Interviews, assessments, individual or grouped drug or alcohol programmes, including counselling, assessment, referral, advice and throughcare services (CARATS) assessments
IDPR	Inmate development and pre-release training
Other resettlement and offending behaviour activity not covered	Probation, personal officer, PLU officer work. Job club and other employment advice. Accommodation advice or information. Specialist work, including probation or Citizens Advice Bureau
Family, social	Visits, earned community visits, compassionate licence
Temporary release on resettlement licence	Count up to eight hours a day if the time has not been categorised elsewhere.
Other Purposeful Activities
Health education clinics and promotion	Including for example, well-man clinics and cancer awareness sessions but excluding medical treatment.
Voluntary work	Including sessions with external agencies not covered elsewhere
Other facility licence not covered elsewhere
Chaplaincy	All faith religious activities including services, classes, pastoral visits and organised prayers.
Recreational sporting activities	Activities organised in addition to the establishment. PE programme and supervised by non-PE staff.

Mr. Bill O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether private sector prisons have access to (a) the Quantum IT infrastructure and (b) the e-OASys offender assessment system. [203380]

Paul Goggins: Private sector prisons do not currently have access to the Quantum IT infrastructure, although they do have access to the strategic Inmate Information System, and its local component, the Local Inmate Database System (LIDS), alongside their own IT provision.

In January 2005 limited access to the e-OASys offender assessment system was provided to all contracted establishments except HMP Wolds. It was not possible to provide this same level of access to HMP Wolds due to technical difficulties, but work in ongoing to rectify this problem.
 
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