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Prison Service

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recording methods are in place for the number of self-harm incidents occurring in women's prisons. [8408]

Fiona Mactaggart: In December 2002, the Prison Service introduced a revised system for self-harm data collection that required staff to complete an F213SH form for every incident of self-harm known to occur within the establishment, irrespective of the method, intent or severity of any injury: from superficial scratches of the skin to noose/ligature-making, self-suffocation and attempted hanging. The F213SH is used in all prisons, both male and female. The form is designed to be user-friendly and to enable the manageable and consistent collection of standardised, accurate information. The completed F213SH is then imputed to the Prison Service's Incident Reporting System (IRS).

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners committed suicide in prisons in London in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. [8419]

Fiona Mactaggart: Eight prisoners apparently took their own lives in London prisons during the calendar year 1997; 12 prisoners apparently took their own lives in London prisons during the calendar year 2004.

Reducing the number of such tragic incidents is a key priority, and an unprecedented amount of work is being done to reduce the likelihood of vulnerable individuals taking their lives.

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many remand prisoners self-harmed in (a) 2003 and (b) 2004. [8990]

Fiona Mactaggart: 1,294 remand prisoners are recorded as having self-harmed in 2003 and 1,367 in 2004. Remand prisoners are over-represented in self-harm statistics. The heightened risk is associated with the fact that the majority of remand prisoners are in the early phases of imprisonment. Remand prisoners, as compared to sentenced prisoners, have also been shown to have higher rates of a number of risk factors that we know increase the likelihood of self-harm, such as mental disorder, substance dependence, previous self-harm and previous abuse (Singleton et al, 1998).

A broad, integrated and evidence-based prisoner suicide prevention and self-harm management strategy is in place.

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average age of a remand prisoner was in (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004. [8991]

Fiona Mactaggart: The average age of the remand population on 30 June in each of the years in question, as recorded on the Prison Service IT system, is as follows.

	Average age
2002	27
2003	27
2004	28

 
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Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) cost and (b) original budgeted figure for running each prison was in the financial year 2004–05. [9014]

Fiona Mactaggart: The costs and original budgeted figures for running each prison within the Public Prison Service for 2004–05 are given in table 1.

The 2004–05 figures for contracted figures are not yet available. The costs for running each contracted prison in the financial year 2003–04 are given in table 2. The original budgeted figures for each contracted prison in 2003–04 are not held centrally.
Table 1 £

Establishments-Public Prisons		2004–05 Budgets	Adjusted 2004–05 actual spends
001	Acklington	14,917,189.00	14,832,070.00
002	Albany	11,320,478.00	11,200,111.00
003	Ashwell	10,203,317.00	10,209,699.00
004	Askham Grange	3,677,857.00	3,628,808.00
005	Aylesbury	12,978,824.00	12,999,179.00
006	Bedford	11,557,865.00	11,910,478.00
007	Belmarsh	34,500,734.53	35,101,849.00
008	Birmingham	29,392,199.50	28,115,788.50
009	Blakenhurst	18,290,866.00	17,547,075.00
010	Blantyre House	2,870,536.00	2,847,341.00
011	Blundeston	11,083,124.00	11,220,183.00
012	Brinsford	15,724,398.00	15,253,675.00
013	Bristol	16,489,233.00	17,654,815.00
014	Brixton	21,294,144.00	21,694,228.00
015	Brockhill	6,678,925.00	7,066,126.00
016	Buckley Hall	8,855,528.00	9,618,038.00
017	Bullingdon	19,268,574.00	19,263,748.00
018	Bullwood Hall	7,802,347.00	8,107,852.00
019	Camp Hill	11,626,485.00	11,589,936.00
020	Canterbury	7,052,229.00	7,028,161.00
021	Cardiff	15,816,430.00	15,899,772.00
022	Castington	14,131,341.00	14,049,927.00
023	Channings Wood	13,398,331.29	13,496,966.29
024	Chelmsford	15,317,287.00	15,601,356.00
025	Coldingley	9,095,906.00	9,140,570.00
026	Cookham Wood	4,827,303.00	4,674,198.00
027	Dartmoor	14,725,573.33	14,941,524.33
028	Deerbolt	13,872,100.00	13,998,620.00
029	Dorchester	6,835,320.21	7,045,806.21
030	Dover	8,612,362.00	8,611,126.00
031	Downview	10,162,011.00	10,569,695.00
032	Drake Hall	7,762,547.00	7,927,240.00
033	Durham	21,935,991.30	21,897,082.30
035	East Sutton Park	2,333,533.00	2,436,134.00
036	Eastwood Park	10,072,400.00	10,274,898.00
037	Elmley	16,774,961.70	16,768,875.70
038	Erlestoke	8,261,755.00	8,270,228.00
039	Everthorpe	9,961,465.00	9,558,717.00
040	Exeter	11,916,771.70	11,964,286.70
041	Featherstone	13,752,579.00	13,722,618.00
042	Feltham	32,073,566.00	38,423,319.00
043	Ford	7,174,864.00	8,155,014.00
044	Foston Hall	7,782,342.00	7,857,140.00
045	Frankland	30,931,213.00	32,131,897.92
046	Full Sutton	25,486,631.56	25,664,941.00
047	Garth	14,848,126.00	15,522,885.00
048	Gartree	11,176,868.00	11,321,333.00
049	Glen Parva	20,235,017.00	19,572,205.00
050	Gloucester	14,075,935.25	9,427,751.00
051	Grendon	14,310,307.00	14,704,902.00
052	Guys Marsh	9,892,737.91	9,851,987.91
053	Haslar	4,225,633.00	4,269,224.00
054	Haverigg	11,041,151.00	11,714,695.00
055	Hewell Grange	3,762,688.00	3,917,925.00
056	Highdown	18,004,769.00	18,931,089.00
057	Edmunds Hill	10,666,584.00	9,962,096.00
058	Highpoint	14,039,750.00	14,034,826.00
059	Hindley	19,691,362.00	18,645,130.00
060	Hollesley Bay	6,709,050.89	6,873,864.89
061	Holloway	24,934,009.96	25,575,085.96
062	Holme House	20,756,951.00	20,527,752.00
063	Hull	22,516,738.00	22,285,797.00
064	Huntercombe	14,552,559.00	14,580,860.00
065	Kingston	5,504,432.00	5,515,193.00
066	Kirkham	12,849,421.00	13,179,918.00
067	Kirklevington Grange	3,999,542.00	3,935,712.00
068	Lancaster Castle	7,111,308.00	7,139,154.00
069	Lancaster Farms	17,138,834.00	16,682,160.00
070	Latchmere House	3,498,602.00	3,439,878.00
071	Leeds	25,376,641.90	25,289,013.90
072	Leicester	9,961,317.00	9,733,096.00
073	Lewes	12,408,819.00	12,471,889.00
074	Leyhill	10,655,272.00	11,042,872.00
075	Lincoln	13,689,006.89	13,671,496.89
076	Lindholme	19,545,565.00	19,278,106.00
078	Littlehey	12,238,550.00	12,271,304.00
079	Liverpool	27,067,777.23	28,102,218.23
080	Long Lartin	21,193,519.14	21,227,384.00
081	Low Newton	9,399,970.00	9,571,447.00
082	Maidstone	11,587,849.00	11,293,615.00
083	Manchester	29,575,723.20	29,740,822.00
084	Moorland	22,383,083.10	22,512,870.10
085	Morton Hall	8,365,652.00	7,915,508.00
086	Mount (The)	14,440,389.00	14,259,835.00
087	New Hall	15,265,071.00	15,352,984.00
088	North Sea Camp	4,810,305.00	4,937,493.00
089	Northallerton	6,134,252.00	6,084,423.00
090	Norwich	16,892,523.00	16,645,920.00
091	Nottingham	12,920,881.00	12,965,515.00
092	Onley	15,199,286.00	14,813,252.00
093	Parkhurst	14,842,047.00	14,873,068.00
094	Pentonville	26,877,240.00	27,808,745.00
095	Portland	12,680,018.77	12,708,962.77
096	Preston	15,901,980.00	16,043,797.00
097	Ranby	20,349,164.00	18,864,003.00
098	Reading	8,257,293.83	8,269,537.83
099	Risley	20,532,956.00	20,477,940.00
100	Rochester	9,518,882.00	9,434,344.00
101	Send	5,932,097.00	5,927,005.00
102	Shepton Mallet	5,213,114.00	5,361,730.00
103	Shrewsbury	8,208,040.00	8,229,798.00
104	Stafford	13,614,637.00	13,908,420.00
105	Standford Hill	8,916,002.00	8,886,705.00
106	Stocken	11,496,212.00	11,341,130.00
107	Stoke Heath	18,505,733.00	18,110,822.00
108	Styal	13,807,418.00	14,226,049.00
109	Sudbury	8,752,867.00	8,554,575.00
110	Swaleside	14,727,483.02	15,222,670.02
111	Swansea	9,597,035.00	9,493,789.00
112	Swinfen Hall	14,974,139.00	13,310,927.00
113	Thorn Cross	8,732,631.00	8,802,198.00
114	Usk	8,148,437.00	8,173,464.00
115	Verne (The)	10,088,740.28	10,113,137.28
116	Wakefield	22,768,755.30	22,999,358.53
117	Wandsworth	30,283,700.00	34,342,583.00
118	Warren Hill	9,939,930.00	9,843,446.00
119	Wayland	11,903,144.00	11,789,296.00
120	Wealstun	17,246,355.00	16,543,704.00
121	Weare (The)	8,025,496.84	8,177,635.84
122	Wellingborough	11,252,974.00	10,914,454.00
123	Werrington	6,871,995.00	6,862,585.00
124	Wetherby	12,503,780.00	12,554,959.00
125	Whatton	7,644,923.00	7,593,862.00
126	Whitemoor	26,018,395.60	25,976,815.00
127	Winchester	15,905,572.00	15,563,780.00
129	Woodhill	27,799,691.82	27,901,035.00
130	Wormwood Scrubs	28,280,356.00	28,952,573.00
131	Wymott	21,154,820.00	20,838,883.00
	Total	1,780,527,322.05	1,789,761,387.10

 
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Table 2

Establishment(83)	Cost (£)
Altcourse	31,158,524
Ashfield	13,040,682
Doncaster	19,097,051
Dovegate	22,287,437
Forest Bank	20,863,919
Lowdham Grange	12,347,364
Parc	31,240,577
Rye Hill	14,202,366
Wolds	6,776,755
Total	171,014,675

⁽⁸³⁾Table does not include Bronzefield and Peterborough, both of which opened after the reporting period.

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many suicides there have been in each of the last 12 months, broken down by prison. [9066]

Fiona Mactaggart: The number of apparently self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales, July 2004–June 2005 is provided in the table.

Reducing the number of such tragic incidents is a key priority, and an unprecedented amount of work is being done in this area.

The number of apparently self-inflicted deaths fluctuates. The four deaths in April and May this year represent the lowest in a two month period since 1992. Sadly, sometimes there are also apparent 'clusters' of self-inflicted deaths, such as the 16 deaths in June. Each death will be the subject of a coroner's inquest and a thorough investigation by the prisons and probation ombudsman. The Prison Service and contracted prisons will be looking to see if there are any early lessons to learn and act on.

Month	Establishment	Number of apparently self-inflicted deaths
July 2004	Blakenhurst	1
	High Down	1
	Liverpool	1
	Low Newton	1
	Manchester	1
	New Hall	1
August 2004	Acklington	1
	Birmingham	1
	Bullingdon	1
	Dartmoor	1
	Elmley	1
	Exeter	1
	Leeds	2
	Norwich	1
	Shrewsbury	2
	Wakefield	1
	Wormwood Scrubs	2
September 2004	Acklington	1
	Brixton	1
	Manchester	2
	Norwich	1
	Rochester	1
	Shrewsbury	1
	Wakefield	1
October 2004	Brockhill	1
	Durham	1
	Hull	1
	Kingston—Portsmouth	1
	Leicester	1
	Manchester	1
	New Hall	1
	Pentonville	2
November 2004	Lincoln	1
	Manchester	1
	Swansea	1
	The Verne	1
	Wormwood Scrubs	1
December 2004	Bedford	1
	Bullingdon	1
	Liverpool	1
January 2005	Exeter	1
	Lancaster Farms	1
	Stoke Heath	1
	Swaleside	1
February 2005	Altcourse	1
	Brinsford	1
	Gloucester	1
	New Hall	1
	Wandsworth	2
	Wymott	1
March 2005	Chelmsford	1
	Full Sutton	1
	Holme House	1
	Leeds	1
	Lowdham Grange	1
	Preston	1
	Rye Hill	1
	Wakefield	1
April 2005	Brixton	1
	Gloucester	1
May 2005	Leicester	1
	Swansea	1
June 2005	Bristol	1
	Dorchester	1
	Durham	1
	Eastwood Park	1
	Gloucester	2
	Leicester	1
	Liverpool	4
	Norwich	1
	Pentonville	2
	Reading	1
	Weare	1

 
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Mrs. James: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what support is given to women prisoners who enter prison with a drug addiction. [10670]

 
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Fiona Mactaggart: A comprehensive range of drug treatment services is available to women prisoners with substance-misuse needs. These services include:

Clinical services (detoxification and maintenance-prescribing programmes);

CARATs (counselling, assessment, referral, advice and through- care services); and

Intensive drug rehabilitation programmes.

Mrs. James: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what support is given to women prisoners who have previously been victims of domestic violence. [10671]

Fiona Mactaggart: A range of support is given to women prisoners who disclose that they have been victims of abuse, which may include the experience of domestic violence. This includes offering individual support of counselling; giving advice and information about abuse; and referral on to appropriate outside agencies. Individual establishments work closely with local community agencies with specialist expertise in abuse issues. The support offered will be determined following a full assessment of individual need.

Copies of the Home Office leaflet on domestic violence are available to women in prison and a women's aid/refuge domestic violence number is on the recommended helpline list devised by the National Offender Management Service Safer Custody Group. Good Practice Guidelines for supporting women who have experienced abuse or domestic violence were circulated by the Prison Service Women's Team to all women's establishments in June 2005.

Mrs. James: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on sexually-transmitted disease (a) prevention and (b) screening in prisons in England and Wales. [10673]

Ms Rosie Winterton: I have been asked to reply.

Services for the identification and management of sexually transmitted diseases are part of the overall health care services provided for prisoners, who are one of the target groups identified in the Department's national strategy for sexual health and HIV implementation action plan (2002). National health service primary care trusts are now responsible for commissioning the primary health care services at all but three of the publicly-run prison establishments in England. By April 2006, that responsibility will be fully devolved to the NHS.

Prison doctors were advised in 1995 that they should make condoms available to individual prisoners, on application if, in their clinical judgment, there was a risk of the transmission of HIV infection during sexual activity. The Prison Service expects shortly to issue revised guidance and instructions aimed at clarifying its policy on condom provision and ensuring that it is applied more consistently across the estate.

All prisoners undergo a health screening on first reception to identify those who have immediate health needs, or who are at a high risk of having a significant health problem. This, or other harm minimisation or health promotion resources, may result in individual
 
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prisoners requesting an appointment with a sexual health service, which may lead to testing, and associated pre-and post-test discussion, for blood borne viruses.

Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 January 2005, Official Report, column 472W, on Dartmoor prison, when he will place in the Library copies of contracts or agreements relating to the provision of offending behaviour courses by faith-based organisations at Dartmoor prison; what the budgeted cost is of the programmes; who bears the cost of the programmes; how many prisoners are taking part; and over what period the programmes will operate. [8690]

Fiona Mactaggart: A copy of the service level agreement between Dartmoor prison and The InnerChange Freedom Initiative Project has today been placed in the Library. The document sets out the agreement for the delivery of the programme to prisoners known as The InnerChange Freedom Initiative. The programme, which is delivered by the chaplaincy department, is wholly funded by the Tufton Trust, which is a charitable organisation, and no cost is borne by the Prison Service.

There are currently 10 prisoners taking part in the programme which lasts a year and is based on Christian values. The programme is wholly multi-faith, and prisoners with diverse faiths and beliefs are currently represented. This is a pilot project in place for one year only at Dartmoor. Although it is evaluated at varying intervals, a full evaluation will be undertaken at the end of the pilot and results analysed and discussed before a decision is taken on whether or not to expand the project to other establishments.

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of current prisoners are repeat offenders. [7895]

Fiona Mactaggart: Of the sentenced prison population at 30 June 2002, 70 percent. of young males, 77 percent. of adult males and 50 percent. of adult females had at least one previous conviction for a standard list offence. More detailed figures available in the table.
Population in prison establishments under sentence by number of previous convictions, age group and sex, England and Wales, 30 June 2002 Percentage

Previous convictions	Young male offenders	Adult male offenders	Adult female offenders
Nil	17	15	37
1–2	18	12	12
3–6	26	17	14
7–10	16	14	9
11 and over	10	34	15
Unknown(84)	13	8	13

⁽⁸⁴⁾The criminal history of the prison population was obtained by matching prison records to the Home Office criminal database, the offenders index. Information could not be matched for 13 percent. of young male offenders, 8 percent. of adult males and 13 percent. of adult females in prison at 30 June 2002 and thus previous convictions for these offenders could not be found.

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2005, Official Report, column 547W on Transexual
 
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Prisoners, if he will give the reasons for the delay in publishing guidelines on the treatment of transexual prisoners. [12062]

Fiona Mactaggart: The Prison Service regrets that the need to devote resources to other work has meant that it has not yet proved possible to complete these guidelines. Prisoners with gender dysphoria are, however, already being cared for, managed and treated in accordance with the general principles contained in the emerging guidelines.

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