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Correspondence
Mr. Bellingham:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the hon.
Member for North-West Norfolk’s correspondence of 30 January regarding the handling of complaints by the Prison Service about prison governors. [66562]
Mr. Sutcliffe: I met with the hon. Gentleman on 12 July to discuss the various issues raised in his correspondence. I will write to him shortly to cover a range of related matters.
Council Tax
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average Band D police precept on council tax was in each year since 1997-98 in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) England and Wales. [66294]
Mr. McNulty: The information is set out in the following table:
| Average Band D council tax of police authorities for England and Wales in real terms at 2004-05 prices | ||||||||||
| £ | ||||||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| (1) Real Term values calculated using Treasury GDP deflators as at March 2006 Notes: England figures exclude the City of London Source: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and National Assembly for Wales | ||||||||||
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females were sent to prison for non-payment of council tax in each year since 1993, broken down by age group. [83786]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on number of prisoners received into prison under non-criminal categories of imprisonment is to be found in table 7.10 of Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004. This is a web-only table and can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/omcs.html
Figures are shown for all years since 1993 for the categories community charge/council tax and rates. The data, which are obtained from the prison IT system, are not shown separately by age group because the numbers are small and the accuracy at this level of detail cannot be guaranteed.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so is not necessarily accurate to the last whole number.
Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will extend the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to British victims of terrorist attacks abroad. [83284]
Mr. Sutcliffe: We have no plans to extend the scope of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to cover injuries sustained abroad. However, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are developing proposals for establishing a charitable fund to help victims of terrorist attacks overseas, and hope to be able to announce further details in the coming months.
| Number of offenders found guilty at all courts for offences relating to drunkenness in Suffolk police force area( 1,2 ) 1997 to 2004 | |
| Offence description — drunkenness with aggravation( 3) | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3 )Includes the offence of “drunk and disorderly” (Criminal Justice Act 1967 sec. 91) and other miscellaneous offences of drunkenness with aggravations. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform | |
Criminal Justice
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what average period elapsed between sentencing and tariff setting in each year since 1997. [86054]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Custody
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of children and young adults (a) on remand and (b) after conviction have been placed in custody more than 100 miles from their home. [86205]
Mr. Sutcliffe: In October 2005, the latest date for which figures are available, 40 young people under 18 and 49 18 to 20-year-olds were placed on remand or committal for sentence more than 100 miles from home. Expressed as a percentage, 7.7 per cent. of unconvicted under-18-year-olds and 4.1 per cent. of unconvicted 18 to 20-year-olds were placed more than 100 miles from home.
As to sentenced offenders: 176 under-18-year-olds (9.5 per cent.) and 738 18 to 20-year-olds (11 per cent.) were placed over 100 miles from home.
This information is derived from the Prison Service and Youth Justice Board databases. Home address details are not held for all offenders: where the home address is not recorded, the address of the court before which he or she appeared is used as a proxy. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so is not necessarily accurate to the last whole number.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number and percentage of children and young adults with a mental illness while in custody in (a) 1985, (b) 1995 and (c) 2005. [86224]
Mr. Sutcliffe: 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, examined for five types of mental disorder: personality disorder; psychosis; neurotic disorder; drug dependence; and hazardous drinking. A copy is available in the Library.
Psychiatric Morbidity Amongst Prisoners in England and Wales (ONS, 1998)
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of self-harm and abuse of children and young adults in custody have been recorded (a) in the past 12 months and (b) since 2000, broken down by sex of victim. [86243]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The information available centrally is incomplete and could be misleading, because different categories of secure establishment have used different counting methods. The Youth Justice Board is currently working with the Prison Service, operators of
secure training centres and secure children's homes to agree common recording standards and reporting practices for statistical data. We believe this will both improve the quality and increase the range of available aggregated information about young people in custody.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children and young adults are in custody, broken down by (a) ethnic origin and (b) religious belief. [86249]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on (a) the ethnic origin and (b) the religious beliefs of the population in prison establishments in England and Wales by age group is given in the web-only tables 8.30 and 8.33 of Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004, available at the following web address.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1705section8.xls
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so is not necessarily accurate to the last whole number.
Departmental Publications
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what draft Bills have been produced by his Department since October 2005; how many were (a) examined and (b) are planned to be examined by (i) a departmental Select Committee and (ii) a Joint Committee; what draft Bills are still to be produced by his Department; when each is expected to be published; how many clauses each has; and if he will make a statement. [81311]
Mr. McNulty: Since October 2005, no draft Bills have been produced by the Home Office.
Announcements on future legislation and future draft legislation which will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny will be indicated in the Queen’s Speech.
Departmental War Room
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department's War Room was established; how many officials are allocated to it, broken down by grade; what its (a) objectives and (b) purposes are; and if he will make a statement. [81584]
Mr. Byrne: The composition of the team working on the Home Office and the Immigration Nationality Directorate reviews has varied in number and skills week by week as the project moved through phases of work.
Detention Occupancy Rates
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the occupancy rate was for each (a) prison, (b) young offenders institution, (c) secure training centre and (d) local authority secure unit in each of the past 20 years. [86248]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the occupancy rate of all prison establishments (including young offender institutions) in England and Wales between 1992 and 2006 can be found in monthly tables held by the House of Commons Library Statistical Resource Unit. Equivalent information for 1986 to 1992 cannot be provided without disproportionate cost.
Information on the occupancy rate of Secure Children’s Homes in England and Wales is provided by the Department for Education and Skills. Information for 2001 to 2005 is published on their website (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/index.s html); information for 1998 to 2000 is in the following table; earlier years are not available. Information on the occupancy rate of Secure Training Centres is not available in this form.
| Secure children’s homes: occupancy rate at 31 March 1998 | |
| Percentage | |
| Source: Department for Education and Skills | |
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