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Formal meetings between the Regional Offender Manager and HM Prison Services Area Manager for London prisons take place on a quarterly basis. Additionally, the Regional Offender Managers representative and the Area Managers representative
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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