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Formal meetings between the Regional Offender Manager and HM Prison Service’s Area Manager for London prisons take place on a quarterly basis. Additionally, the Regional Offender Manager’s representative and the Area Manager’s representative
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also meet regularly. If required by either party, meetings may be held more frequently.

Performance against targets is reported by HM Prison Service using monthly data returns and reports are submitted to NOMS and sent to the Regional Offender Manager. The Regional Offender Manager has access to information from other sources, including site visits by his team, Independent Monitoring Board reports, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons reports, and reports by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

The Regional Offender Manager, or their representative, has access at all reasonable times to HMP Wandsworth, and undertakes a minimum of quarterly visits to the establishment.

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the outcome was of the assessment of the Service Level Agreement at HM Prison Wandsworth after the first six months of its implementation; who undertook the assessment; who is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Service Level Agreement at HM Prison Wandsworth; and if he will place a copy of the report of the assessment in the Library. [111752]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The assessment was commissioned by the Chief Executive of NOMS to establish the progress made at HMP Wandsworth six months after they were awarded a Service Level Agreement for successfully completing the Performance Test.

Her assessment was that overall, HMP Wandsworth had made encouraging progress and that with the new management team in place, the signs were that performance would continue to improve.

The assessment fieldwork was completed by a multi-disciplinary group of staff from across NOMS and HM Prison Service.

The Regional Offender Manager for London, Steve Murphy, is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Service Level Agreement at HM Prison Wandsworth.

A copy of the assessment report will not be placed in the Library as it contains operationally sensitive material.

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will increase the percentage of the Prison Service budget which is spent on education. [115499]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Responsibility for the principal budgets that meet the costs of learning and skills for offenders in custody, and in the community, now rests with the Department for Education and Skills. Decisions about the overall budget for offender learning rests with Ministers there.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of the established Prison Service staff complement is in post in each prison in England and Wales. [117573]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the percentage of planned posts that are filled in each prison in England and Wales is contained in the following table. These figures include all posts, both operational and non-operational. For the public sector they reflect the impact of additional hours worked through contracted supplementary hours (CSH) and agency staffing.


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Percentage of staffing requirement in post having included CSH and agency staff( 1) , as at 31 December 2006
Prison Percentage

Acklington

l00

Albany

l00

Ashwell

l00

Askham Grange

97

Aylesbury

99

Bedford

93

Belmarsh

91

Birmingham

99

Blakenhurst

98

Blantyre House

99

Blundeston

97

Brinsford

98

Bristol

99

Brixton

92

Brockhill

89

Buckley Hall

100

Bullingdon

98

Bullwood Hall(2)

88

Camp Hill

96

Canterbury

98

Cardiff

99

Castington

97

Channings Wood

99

Chelmsford

92

Coldingley

97

Cookham Wood/East Sutton Park

89

Dartmoor

96

Deerbolt

97

Dorchester

95

Dover

100

Downview

97

Drake Hall

97

Durham

97

Eastwood Park

94

Edmunds Hill

97

Elmley

100

Erlestoke

91

Everthorpe

100

Exeter

100

Featherstone

98

Feltham

92

Ford

90

Foston Hall

91

Frankland

94

Full Sutton

100

Garth

100

Gartree

94

Glen Parva

95

Gloucester

99

Grendon

96

Guys Marsh

93

Haslar

98

Haverigg

100

Hewell Grange

100

High Down

98

Highpoint

98

Hindley

100

Hollesley Bay

100

Holloway

97

Holme House

98

Hull

100

Huntercombe

94

Kingston

99

Kirkham

94

Kirklevington Grange

99

Lancaster

100

Lancaster Farms

100

Latchmere House

99

Leeds

97

Leicester

100

Lewes

95

Leyhill

92

Lincoln

100

Lindholme

100

Littlehey

100

Liverpool

99

Long Lartin

96

Low Newton

100

Maidstone

92

Manchester

97

Moorland

100

Morton Hall

100

New Hall

100

North Sea Camp

95

Northallerton

98

Norwich

97

Nottingham

96

Onley

92

Parkhurst

99

Pentonville

100

Portland

98

Preston

100

Ranby

97

Reading

100

Risley

100

Rochester

98

Send

95

Shepton Mallet

94

Shrewsbury

98

Stafford

96

Standford Hill

98

Stocken

95

Stoke Heath

97

Styal

100

Sudbury

99

Swaleside

100

Swansea

99

Swinfen Hall

98

The Mount

94

The Verne

97

Thorn Cross

99

Usk/Prescoed

99

Wakefield

95

Wandsworth

91

Warren Hill

100

Wayland

99

Wealstun

98

Weare

100

Wellingborough

96

Werrington

94

Wetherby

100

Whatton

97

Whitemoor

93

Winchester

98

Woodhill

93

Wormwood Scrubs

100

Wymott

97

(1) Information has been derived from the Personnel Corporate Database, Oracle HRMS and quarterly forecast change forms completed by each establishment. Where an establishment has recorded a surplus of staff this has not been used to off-set the shortfalls.
(2) Vacancy level at Bullwood Hall has now been reduced to 1.5 posts.

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