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Extraditions

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK citizens have been extradited to the United States under the Extradition Act 2003. [55672]

Andy Burnham: We do not keep a permanent central record of the nationalities of those extradited from the UK, because the UK, like the US, has always been prepared to consider the extradition of its own citizens. Total numbers extradited to the United States under the Extradition Act 2003 to date are 12. The figure does not include requests granted by Ministers in Scotland and Northern Ireland, who have devolved powers to make or grant requests.

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many United States citizens have been extradited to the UK in each of the last 10 years. [55673]

Andy Burnham: No central record is kept as to the nationality of a person whose extradition has been sought. Statistical information is only available since 1998. Since then, to date, the number of those extradited by the US to the UK (of all nationalities) is as follows:

	Number extradited
1998	5
1999	2
2000	2
2001	3
2002	3
2003	2
2004	4
2005	1

Note:
The figures do not include extraditions to Scotland and Northern Ireland, where Ministers have devolved powers to make extradition requests.

Neighbourhood Policing

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the implementation of neighbourhood policing teams to be completed in each police force. [55063]

Hazel Blears: The Government is working closely with ACPO to ensure that, by 2008, every area in England and Wales will benefit from dedicated, visible, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policing. A programme to deliver on this commitment is well under way, and some areas have already moved to a neighbourhood policing approach. The timing of the full implementation of neighbourhood policing teams will be different for every force. There is no one size fits all" approach to neighbourhood policing, and each force must develop, tailor and test an approach which will be appropriate to local issues and circumstances.
 
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Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the average population to be covered by neighbourhood policing teams. [55370]

Hazel Blears: The Government are committed to ensuring that, by 2008, every area in England and Wales will benefit from dedicated, visible, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policing. The size of the neighbourhood which will be served by a neighbourhood policing team will vary depending on local needs and circumstances. A neighbourhood" will not mean the same to an inner-city resident as to someone living in a predominantly rural area.

Typically though, we would expect it to cover one or two council wards. The important thing will be that each neighbourhood will have a dedicated team, and that residents will know their local officers and be able easily to contact them.

Parenting Orders

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many parenting orders have been applied for to date. [51189]

Fiona Mactaggart: Youth offending teams and local education authorities were given power to apply for parenting orders through the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003. From the available data, 41 parenting orders were made on application by youth offending teams (between April 2004 and 31 July 2005) and none were applied for or made on application by local education authorities (between September 2004 and 31 July 2005).

Police

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations his Department has received on the activities of Newham council's park police. [50958]

Hazel Blears: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 27 February 2006, Official Report, column 94W.

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of how many officer hours it took on average to process an arrest in (a) England and (b) Humberside in the latest period for which an estimate is available; and if he will make a statement. [54269]

Hazel Blears: Data on the average amount of time taken to process an arrest is not collected centrally. Such data would be of minimal value as each arrest is subject to the individual circumstances of each case, the demands on the custody suite and local operational priorities. The process of arrest is subject to statutory requirements and procedures which provide safeguards and protections for the public and require police accountability. These powers and procedures are subject to ongoing consideration ensuring that important balance is maintained.

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been killed in each of the last three years by the police (a) during police action, (b) as a result of police pursuits and (c) in police custody. [52959]

 
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Hazel Blears: Responsibility for collating, reporting and publishing statistics on deaths during or following police contact lies with the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Any inquiries regarding deaths should be made to the chair of the Commission.

Prisons

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison inmates have diagnosed personality disorders; and how many prison inmates are receiving treatment for personality disorders. [51916]

Fiona Mactaggart: This information is not available in the form requested. The Office for National Statistics survey of mental health in the prison population in 1997 found that 78 per cent. of remanded and 64 per cent. of sentenced male prisoners and 50 per cent. of all women prisoners had personality disorder.

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners diagnosed with (a) mental health problems, (b) personality disorders, (c) learning disabilities and (d) communicative disorders there are in each prison in England. [54790]

Fiona Mactaggart: The information is not available in the form requested. A survey of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners in England and Wales in 1997, by the Office for National Statistics, showed that 90 per cent. of prisoners have at least one significant mental health problem, including personality disorder, psychosis, neurosis, alcohol misuse and drug dependence.

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the prison population had (a) learning disabilities, (b) mental health problems and (c) learning difficulties and mental health problems in the most recent period for which figures are available. [47236]

Fiona Mactaggart: In 1997 the Office for National Statistics undertook a survey of mental ill health in the prison population of England and Wales. It reported both on prevalence of mental disorder and on the intellectual functioning of remanded and sentenced prisoners. Further information is available in the report of this survey: Psychiatric Morbidity Amongst Prisoners in England and Wales" (1998) a copy of which is available in the Library and on the ONS website.

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to pay prisoners the same amount for education as they are paid for work; and if he will make a statement. [55047]

Fiona Mactaggart: The policy on prisoners pay supports the sentence planning section of the Offender Assessment System (OASys) which requires establishments to allocate activities in accordance with identified individual needs and objectives, thus targeting activities to those who will derive the most benefit from them. Each prison has devolved responsibility to enable them to set local pay rates over and above a national minimum. A local pay scheme must not provide disincentives to activities which are a part of a prisoner's sentence plan; this applies equally to education or
 
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employment. Rates of pay will therefore vary between prisons and activities, as governors use their discretion to balance regime activities.

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on the Assisted Prisoners' Visits Scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the budget was for the scheme in each year. [55080]

Fiona Mactaggart: Assisted Prison Visits Scheme expenditure is in the following table.

Expenditure includes bank charges, special printing translation costs etc. directly related to the scheme.

Total number of visits paid in 2004–05 was 61,988.
£

	Budget	Expenditure
2000–01	1,986,000	1,964,345
2001–02	1,825,000	1,762,048
2002–03	1,796,000	1,712,783
2003–04	1,892,920	1,822,499
2004–05	1,947,000	1,870,386

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) adult prisoners and (b) prisoners in young offender institutions were (i) in full-time employment, (ii) self-employed, (iii) unemployed and claiming benefits, (iv) in full-time education and (v) on a (A) Government and (B) industry training course at time of sentencing in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [55092]

Fiona Mactaggart: There is no routinely collected data on the employment status of prisoners at the time of sentence. However, the resettlement surveys conducted in 2001, 2003 and 2004 asked a representative sample of prisoners approaching release what they were doing in the four weeks immediately before custody. Results from these figures are in the following table. No details on the type of courses attended are available from these surveys.
Employment status in the four weeks immediately prior to custody: Figures from the 2001, 2003 and 2004 resettlement surveys⁽³⁹⁾ Percentage

Adult prisoners	2001	2003	2004	All three years
ETE in the four weeks before custody
Working full-time(40)	25.4	24.8	21.2	23.8
Working part-time(41)	4.0	3.6	2.3	3.3
Doing temporary/casual work	1.7	1.4	1.6	1.6
In full-time education/training(42)	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.5
In part-time education(43)	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.3
Unemployed, seeking work	26.2	23.4	26.3	25.3
Unemployed, not seeking work	14.5	14.5	14.2	14.4
Looking after home or family	1.9	1.1	1.5	1.5
On a Government training scheme	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.5
Retired from paid work	0.8	0.2	0.8	0.6
Long-term sick or disabled	14.7	14.0	16.7	15.1
Living off crime	7.6	13.7	10.7	10.6
Other	2.0	2.1	3.3	1.9
All	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Number of cases in survey	1369	1306	1298	3973

 
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Percentage

Young prisoners	2001	2003	2004	All three years
ETE in the four weeks before custody
Working full-time	22.9	18.8	22.8	21.5
Working part-time	3.2	4.7	3.8	3.9
Doing temporary/casual work	2.9	2.8	2.9	2.9
In full-time education/training	4.5	2.5	5.3	4.1
In part-time education	1.1	0.8	0.0	0.6
Unemployed, seeking work	29.5	29.3	25.1	28.1
Unemployed, not seeking work	17.6	19.6	15.8	17.7
Looking after home or family	0.5	1.7	0.3	0.8
On a Government training scheme	1.1	1.7	0.6	1.1
Long-term sick or disabled	2.7	2.8	4.1	3.1
Living off crime	10.6	13.5	17.3	13.7
Other	3.5	1.9	2.0	1.9
All	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Number of cases in survey	376	362	342	1080

⁽³⁹⁾ As this is a sample rather a census, the results are subject to sampling error.
⁽⁴⁰⁾ 30 or more hours a week.
⁽⁴¹⁾ Less than 30 hours a week.
⁽⁴²⁾ 16 or more hours of classwork/instruction per week.
⁽⁴³⁾ Less than 16 hours of classwork/instruction per week.
Source:
RDS NOMS.

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to prevent the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in the prison system. [53718]

Fiona Mactaggart: The Prison Service makes it clear that proselytising, for whatever faith, is not allowed, and procedures are in place to tackle it. The Service is working on initiatives to prevent the radicalisation of prisoners, including:

improvements in information gathering to develop a better knowledge of radicalisation of prisoners;

rigorous criteria for selecting chaplains of all faiths, including for imams, formal endorsement by the candidate's faith community through the Prison Service Muslim Adviser; and

work with local Muslim communities to develop resettlement programmes.

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