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Police Cells
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what nightly rate is paid by the Immigration Service for the use of police cells to each police force. [85338]
Mr. Byrne: Immigration Service opened negotiations in October 2005, directly with a number of police forces, about the rates they charge for the use of police cells and discussions continue. The negotiations are based on a standard charging methodology which takes account of local circumstances. The following table shows, in ranges, the rates payable as at the date of the request, and indicates where rates have been agreed as a result of the negotiations since October 2005.
Prison Resettlement Programmes
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effect of delays in categorising inmates on the work of effective resettlement programmes in prisons; and if he will make a statement. [96157]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 24 October 2006]: All convicted prisoners must be categorised as soon as possible after sentencing. Arrangements are in place to ensure that documents vital to the risk assessment process, without which categorisation cannot proceed, are obtained as quickly as possible.
We are not aware of any significant delays in the categorisation process which may affect access to resettlement programmes available in prisons.
Fireworks Act
Mr Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been prosecuted under the Fireworks Act 2003 in the Lancashire Constabulary area, broken down by offence.[97448]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform shows that there have been no prosecutions reported in 2004 under the Fireworks Act 2003 in the Lancashire Constabulary area. Data for 2005 will be available in November 2006.
In addition, penalty notices for disorder (PND) can be issued for a number of offences under the Fireworks Act 2003. The offences of breach of the fireworks curfew, possession of category four fireworks, and possession by a person under 18 of an adult firework were added to the PND Scheme on 11 October 2004. The number of penalty notices issued for each specified offence by Lancashire Constabulary for 2004, 2005 and 2006 (provisional) is shown in the attached table.
| Number of penalty notices for disorder issued in the Lancashire constabulary area for offences under the Fireworks Act 2003, broken down by offence in 2004 and 2005( 1,2) | |||
| Offence | 2004 | 2005 | 2006( 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 police forces and courts. 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) Provisional data from January to June 2006. | |||
Prisons
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Category (a) A, (b) B, (c) C and (d) D prisoners there were in each of the last four quarters in England and Wales. [92887]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the numbers of prisoners held in prison establishments in England and Wales in the four quarters between September 2005 and June 2006, as provided by the prison IT system, is shown in the following table.
The figures provided 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 the totals have been rounded.
| Population( 1) of category A, B, C, and D prisoners at prison establishments in England and Wales | ||||
| Category A | Category B | Category C | Category D | |
| (1)Totals will not add to total prison numbers because (i) many prisoners recently sentenced are under assessment for security classification; and (ii) the security categories do not apply to remand prisoners, women, or young offenders. | ||||
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which prisons reported a serious drug problem in the last period for which figures are available; what action is being taking to reduce the level of drugs in prisons; and if he will make a statement. [44367]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The best measure of drug misuse in prisons is provided by the random mandatory drug testing (MDT) programme. The year to date percentage positive rates for each prison is given in the following table.
A comprehensive series of measures is in place to reduce the supply of and demand for drugs by prisoners including:
passive and active drug dogs;
closed circuit television systems and fixed and low-level furniture;
closed visits and visit bans on visitors suspected of smuggling drugs;
searching strategies;
sharing of intelligence with police about drug routes into prisons;
the use of the Supply Reduction Good Practice Guide; and
mandatory and voluntary drug testing programmes.
Clinical management of substance misuse;
Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Through-care services; and
Drug treatment programmes
| Random MDT percentage positive rates (April to November 2005) | |
| Percentage | |
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