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Prison Service: Convictions
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison service employees were convicted of offences in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available, broken down by (a) offence, (b) length of sentence following conviction and (c) grade of employee. [150735]
Mr. Hanson:
Currently information is not held centrally to answer the question to the level of detail required and could be obtained only by contacting
each public sector prison establishment, headquarters group and outstation, which would incur a disproportionate cost. However, the Government plan to develop a shared service centre which, when fully live, will have improved IT capability that will enable us to produce accurate reports on information such as disciplinary action taken following receipt of a criminal conviction.
Prisoners: Foreigners
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many inmates of prisons in England and Wales were foreign nationals in each of the last five years. [151766]
Mr. Hanson: Figures showing the numbers of foreign national prisoners held in prison establishments in England and Wales can be found in the following table.
| Foreign national prisoners held in prisons in England and Wales June 2002-06 | ||||
| Foreign national prisoners | British nationals | Not recorded | All prisoners | |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Prisoners: Rehabilitation
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners in each prison in Wales are registered as having a drug or alcohol problem; and how many are engaged in a rehabilitation course. [152321]
Mr. Hanson: No records are kept of the number of offenders with drug or alcohol problems. The numbers engaged in drug treatment (2006-07) in Welsh prisons are given in the following table
| Wales prisons | Clinical interventions( 1) | CARATs( 2 ) (assessments) | Drug rehabilitation programme starts( 3) |
| n/a = not available. (1) Clinical intervention may involve detoxification or maintenance. (2) Counselling, assessments, referral, advice and throughcare. CARAT assessments used as a proxy measure of engagement. (3) Entrants to intensive rehabilitation programmes are referred by CARAT teams. | |||
No central records are kept of the number of offenders engaged specifically in treatment for an alcohol problem.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will publish the report on the 12 step drug rehabilitation programme in Swansea prison which led to its closure. [152322]
Mr. Hanson: There was no formal report informing the closure of the 12 Step Programme at HMP Swansea. The decision was reached after detailed discussions between the Governor of HMP Swansea and the Wales Area Drug Co-ordinator, with support from the National Drug Programme Delivery Unit (NDPDU). A key factor involved in the decision was the NDPDU audit reports. Copies of which I have placed in the Library of the House.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what (a) drug and (b) alcohol rehabilitation courses are available at each prison in England and Wales. [152323]
Mr. Hanson: A comprehensive framework is in place to address the needs of those with substance misuse problems:
clinical services are available in all local and remand prisons, including alcohol detoxification (see following list 1);
Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare (CARAT) services are available in all prisons with the exception of HMP Blantyre House. CARAT teams provide support to those where alcohol is part of a multiple drug misuse problem;
the substance misuse service for 16 to 18-year-olds provides support for those with an alcohol problem (see following list 2);
intensive drug rehabilitation programmes are run in 102 prisons (see following list 3,);
Alcoholics Anonymous run groups in approximately 60 per cent. of prisons—the list of prisons is not held centrally and I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of the list in the Library of the House; and
intensive alcohol rehabilitation programmes are currently being piloted at HMP Bullingdon and HMP Featherstone.
1. Prisons offering clinical services for substance misuse
Altcourse
Ashfield
Bedford
Belmarsh
Birmingham
Blakenhurst
Brinsford
Bristol
Brixton
Brockhill
Bronzefield
Bullingdon
Cardiff
Castington
Chelmsford
Doncaster
Dorchester
Durham
Eastwood Park
Elmley
Exeter
Feltham
Forest Bank
Foston Hall
Glen Parva
Gloucester
High Down
Holloway
Holme House
Hull
Leeds
Leicester
Lewes
Lincoln
Liverpool
Low Newton
Manchester
New Hall
Norwich
Nottingham
Parc
Parkhurst
Pentonville
Peterborough Female
Peterborough Male
Preston
Reading
Shrewsbury
Stafford
Stoke Heath
Styal
Swansea
Wandsworth
Wetherby
Winchester
Woodhill
Wormwood Scrubs
2: The substance misuse service for 16 to 18-year-olds
HMP/YOI Ashfield
HMP/YOI Brinsford
HMP/YOI Castington
HMP Cookham Wood
HMP/YOI Downview
HMP Eastwood Park
HMP/YOI/RC Feltham
HMP Foston
HMP/YOI Hindley
HMP/YOI Huntercombe
HMP/YOI Lancaster Farms
HMP/YOI New Hall
HMP/YOI Parc
HMP/YOI Stoke Heath
HMP/YOI Thorn Cross
HMP/YOI Warren Hill
HMP/YOI Werrington
HMP/YOI Wetherby
3. Intensive drug rehabilitation programmes
Acklington
Altcourse
Ashwell
Aylesbury
Bedford
Birmingham
Blakenhurst
Blundeston
Bristol
Brixton
Bullingdon
Camp Hill
Canterbury
Cardiff
Castington
Castle
Channings Wood
Chelmsford
Coldingley
Cookham Wood
Dartmoor
Deerbolt
Doncaster
Dorchester
Downview
Drake Hall
Durham
Eastwood Park
Edmunds Hill
Elmley
Erlestoke
Everthorpe
Exeter
Featherstone
Ford
Forest Bank
Frankland
Full Sutton
Garth
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