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Police (Assaults)
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many policemen have been hospitalised following assaults while on active duty in each of the last five years. [5226]
Hazel Blears: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Prisons
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many additional prison places have been provided, and at what cost, in each of the last six years; what the average cost of building a new prison place is; and if he will make a statement. [4611]
Fiona Mactaggart: The number of prison places provided in each financial year since 2000–01, and the cost of providing these places, is provided in the table. These figures include both expansions at existing establishments and the construction of new prisons.
The average cost for providing these prison places is £99,839, also including both the costs of capacity expansions at existing prisons and the construction of new prisons.
| Number of places provided | Cost (£ million) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2005–06 | 1,120 | (34)— |
| 2004–05 | 2,571 | 291.4 |
| 2003–04 | 1,372 | 136.5 |
| 2002–03 | 1,818 | 158.8 |
| 2001–02 | 1,013 | 105.2 |
| 2000–01 | 680 | 52.3 |
(34)The number of places for 2005–06 includes all places currently scheduled for delivery during 2005–06. Full details of costs for 2005–06 are not yet available.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people were held in adult prisons on the latest date for which figures are available. [2725]
Fiona Mactaggart [holding answer 9 June 2005]: On 30 April 2005 there were 3,287 young persons aged under 21. This includes some 21-year-olds who have not yet been reclassified as adults held in prison establishments which also hold adults, as recorded on the Prison Service IT system.
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to change the maximum length of prison sentence that can be passed by a magistrate; and if he will make a statement. [1722]
Fiona Mactaggart: The maximum custodial penalty a magistrate can pass is currently six months for a single offence; the Criminal Justice Act 2003 increases this to 12 months. Implementation will be in September 2006.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has plans to penalise the contractors at HMP Rye Hill following its recent inspection and controller reports. [3874]
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Fiona Mactaggart: Recent events, including the forthcoming HMIP inspection report of HMP Rye Hill, will be given due consideration by the Office for Contracted Prisons in deciding whether to penalise the contractor for failing to deliver against the contract. All available options will be considered, including the imposition of financial penalties.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the HomeDepartment how many instances of the finding of illicit alcohol there were at Rye Hill Prison during 2004–05 [3876]
Fiona Mactaggart: A total of 72 finds of illicit alcohol (fermenting liquid) were reported at HMP Rye Hill during the 2004–05 financial year.
Private Finance Initiative
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the private finance initiative and public private partnership projects his Department is undertaking; and what the status of each is. [2372]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The table lists the private finance initiative and public private partnership projects which the Home Department is currently engaged and their status.
Probation Service/Resources
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what ratio of staff to clients is operated by the London Probation Service; and if he will make a statement. [2865]
Fiona Mactaggart: For every operational member of staff there are 60 offenders of whom 25 will be in prison and 35 in the community.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to target probation resources at (a) high risk and (b) very high risk offenders. [4994]
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Fiona Mactaggart: The National Offender Management Model, sent to all probation areas in January, embodies the principle that resources should follow risk and, in particular, that greater resources should be devoted to those offenders who are assessed as being of high and very high risk of re-offending and of causing harm to the public. There is a tiering framework that helps offender managers to allocate offenders to the appropriate level of risk and resource.
All probation areas are required to implement the Model and have it fully operational for all community sentences by March 2006. The Model will then be used for all custodial sentences by March 2008.
The Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), established by the Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000 to reduce the serious re-offending behaviour of sexual and violent offenders and to protect the public, also embody the principle that resources follow risk.
Publication Costs
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department has spent on producing publications in each year since 1997. [7006]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The amount spent by the Home Office on the printing of publications was:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | 2,626,032.15 |
| 2000–01 | 3,128,079.64 |
| 2001–02 | 2,994,877.00 |
| 2002–03 | 2,492,883.96 |
| 2003–04 | 2,986,017.11 |
| 2004–05 | 2,233,511.70 |
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The costs provided are those recorded centrally by the Home Office Communication Directorate. These are printing costs only. Other costs involved in production e.g. design, artwork have not been recorded centrally.
Data are not available before 1999 as prior to this date, publications spend was not recorded centrally.
Rape Crisis Organisations
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many rape crisis organisations, and other organisations helping female survivors of sexual violence, received funding from his Department in (a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003 and (d) 2004; and how much each organisation received . [1519]
Fiona Mactaggart: The Home Office funded the rape crisis federation, an umbrella body for some 43 local rape crisis groups, from April 2001 until its closure in November 2003. Funding in the financial years between 2001 and 2004 was as follows:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| (a) 2001–02 | 406,000 |
| (b) 2002–03 | 432,000 |
| (c) 2003–04 | 209,800 |
In 2004 additional funding of £4 million over two financial years was placed in the victims fund to support the development of services for victims of sexual offending. In 2004–05 financial year, 45 organisations received funding to provide a range of community-based services to male and female victims of sexual violence. Of those, 34 organisations provide women-only or gender-neutral services. Details of victims fund awards for the 2004–05 financial year are set out in the table.
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