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Prisoners
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people leaving prison entered employment, education or training through the Custody to Work initiative in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [32789]
Fiona Mactaggart:
Information on the numbers of prisoners leaving custody in 2004–05 and entering employment, training or education (ETE) is as follows. The outcomes include those who attended FRESHSTART appointments at Jobcentre Plus, whereby prisoners who do not have a job or training
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place to go to on release are linked into employment, training and benefits advice and support immediately after release.
In recording outcomes there is no differentiation made between those attained through the Custody to Work initiative or any other.
| 2004–05 | |
|---|---|
| Discharges | 85,685 |
| Info Recorded | 83,991 |
| ETE outcomes (inc FRESHSTART) | 41,146 |
| ETE outcomes (inc FRESHSTART) as percentage of total discharges | 48 |
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prisoners have left prison in each of the last eight years; and how many leftprison without accommodation; [31822]
(2) if he will make a statement on the number of prisoners leaving prison without accommodation; [31823]
(3) what steps he is taking to strengthen data collection on prisoners' accommodation status on leaving prison; and if he will make a statement. [31824]
Fiona Mactaggart: The Prison Service Accommodation Key Performance Indicator has been in place since 2003. The number of prisoners discharged from custody, and the number of those without accommodation to go to are given in the table.
The level of recording has increased from 76 per cent. in 2003–04 to 95 per cent. in 2005–06 year-to-date. The Prison Service Custody to Work co-ordinators continue to work with establishments to ensure that accurate data is entered onto the Local Inmate Data System (LIDS).
Discharged | Discharged without accommodation | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 87,449 | 39,764 |
| 2004–05 | 85,685 | 18,797 |
| 2005–06 (Year to Date) | 50,004 | 6,435 |
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners received special family visits in each of the last three years. [32884]
Fiona Mactaggart: There are no collated figures available on the number of prisoners receiving special family visits. Such visits, which can vary in kind, are organised by individual prisons taking account of local needs.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made towards the introduction of targets for prisons in the area of family ties; and if he will make a statement. [32885]
Fiona Mactaggart:
There is an existing Prison Performance Standard on Family Life which contains key baselines against which prisons are audited. There are no current plans to introduce targets.
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Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the costs per minute to prisoners are of calls from prison to (a) local, (b) national, (c) international and (d) mobile lines. [32886]
Fiona Mactaggart: The rate for national and local calls within the UK is identical at 11p per minute (10pminimum charge for 55 seconds plus 1p for each 5.5 seconds or part thereof).
Calls to Mobiles within the UK are charged at the following rates:
| Pence | |
|---|---|
| Monday to Friday 08.01–18.00 | 63.0 |
| Monday to Thursday 18.01–08.00 | 37.5 |
| Friday 18.01–24.00 | 37.5 |
| 00.01 Saturday to 24.00 Sunday | 19.0 |
International calls are charged at the rates in the following table:
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Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many girls under the age of 18 years in prison in England and Wales are reported (a) to suffer from mental problems and (b) to self-harm. [30327]
Fiona Mactaggart:
The information available about the prevalence of mental health problems for girls and young women is recorded in the Office for National Statistics Survey Psychiatric Morbidity among Young Offenders in England and Wales." A copy is in the Library. The following table shows the number of reported incidents of self-harm involving female juveniles (those aged 15 to 17 inclusive) in 2003, 2004 and in 2005 to July.
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| Number of incidents | Number of Individuals(23) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 462 | 67 |
| 2004 | 585 | 73 |
| 2005(22) | 469 | 56 |
(22)January to July 2005 only.
(23)Based on the 90 per cent. of recorded incidents where the individual is identifiable.
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