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Dangerous Driving: Foreigners

Lorely Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign nationals have been charged with
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offences under sections 2 or 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in each of the last 10 years. [165817]

Maria Eagle: Information on drivers charged with motoring offences is not collected centrally. The court proceedings database held by my Department identifies proceedings under sections 2 and 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988. However, the nationality of those proceeded against does not form part of that information.

Drugs

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what drugs programmes are administered by his Department; and what the budget of each was in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [164851]

Maria Eagle: For those in custody a comprehensive range of drug interventions is available for drug misusers, comprising:

For those supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS), provision consists of:

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) provides the following interventions:

A table showing the budget for each intervention over the last five years is as follows.


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£ million
Intervention 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

Custodial provision

Clinical Services

11.3

11.3

11.3

(1)23.3

(1)24.0

CARATS(2)

17.4

23.3

25.7

30.7

31.7

Drug Rehabilitation Programmes

9.0

13.8

19.4

19.4

19.4

Total Custodial Drug Treatment(3)

37.7

48.4

56.4

73.4

75.1

NPS provision

DTTO/DRR treatment and testing in England (via Pooled Treatment Budget)

29.7

42.0

42.0

42.0

42.0

DTTO/DRR supervision and enforcement in England and full costs in Wales

24.0

34.0

39.0

39.0

39.0

Prospects Programme

3.0

3.8

4.4

Drug Testing on Licence

1.1

1.1

1.8

Total Community Drug Treatment

53.7

76.0

85.1

85.9

87.2

YJB provision

YOTs

8.5

8.5

8.5

8.5

8.5

RAPs

1.5

5.0

12.5

12.5

12.5

Custodial interventions (including YPSMS)(4)

11.0

11.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

Total YJB Drug Treatment

21.0

24.5

29.0

29.0

29.0

(1) Includes additional funding for Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS).
(2) Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare.
(3) The total figure excludes funding for the YPSMS delivered in prisons.
(4) Young peoples Substance Misuse Service delivered in prisons and secure centres. Includes £1 million a year baseline drugs funding.

The NFS accredited substance misuse group work programmes are funded through the general probation main grant allocation. It is therefore for local probation areas to allocate resources accordingly.

Frankland Prison

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners have been segregated under Rule 43 conditions in HM Prison Frankland since April 2007; and how long the period of segregation has been in each case. [165997]

Maria Eagle: It is assumed that my hon. Friend is referring to Rule 45, which replaced Rule 43 in 1999. The following table shows the number of prisoners who are recorded as having commenced a period of detention in the segregation unit at Frankland on or after 1 April 2007 up to 15 November 2007. Some of these prisoners remain in the segregation unit.

Number of weeks held in the segregation unit Number of prisoners Comments

Under 1 week

30

3 continuing to be held, one of whom is being employed

1-2 weeks

12

1 continuing to be held

2-3 weeks

5

1 continuing to be held

3-4 weeks

7

1 continuing to be held

4-5 weeks

5

3 continuing to be held

5-6 weeks

3

1 continuing to be held

6-7 weeks

1

7-8 weeks

6

2 continuing to be held

9-10 weeks

2

1 continuing to be held

10-11 weeks

1

13-14 weeks

1

14-15 weeks

3

15-16 weeks

1

22-23 weeks

1

23-24 weeks

0

24-25 weeks

1

1 continuing to be held although also being employed.

Total

79


Frankland Prison: Crimes of Violence

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many inmates at HM Prison Frankland have declared themselves a victim of assault since April 2007. [165995]

Maria Eagle: Between 1 April 2007 and 15 November 2007, 19 prisoners reported themselves as being a victim of assault by another prisoner.

Freedom of Information

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of freedom of information requests to his Department have been replied to within 20 days; what the greatest length of time taken to issue a reply has been; and if he will make a statement. [166754]

Mr. Wills: My Department publishes a quarterly report of statistics on Freedom of Information implementation in central Government. According to the most recent report, detailing performance in the second quarter of 2007, 73 per cent. of requests to the Ministry of Justice were answered within the statutory deadline of 20 working days. Overall 91 per cent. of requests to the Ministry were answered in time, meaning within the statutory deadline or within a permitted extension. To determine the greatest length of time taken to respond to a request would incur disproportionate cost.

Joint Ministerial Committee

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the next plenary meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee is planned to take place. [166557]

Mr. Wills: The UK Government and the devolved administrations are committed, wherever possible, to conducting business through normal administrative channels, at either official or ministerial level. The JMC has met regularly in functional formats to discuss matters of mutual interest to the UK Government and the devolved Administrations. The UK Government are considering when it would be appropriate for a meeting of the JMC in plenary session to take place.

Legal Services Commission: Slough

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many Legal Services Commission matter starts were given for (a) welfare benefit, (b) housing, (c) employment, (d) debt, (e) immigration, (f) community care and (g) family law cases in Slough in
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each of the last five years; and how many are being offered in the current bid rounds. [165945]

Maria Eagle: The figures for new matter starts for Slough over the last three years are shown in the following table. Data for 2003-04 or 2002-03 are not available. Within these new matter starts, we are specifically looking to target Slough with community care, employment and welfare benefits, as there is no category specific contract in these areas of law in Slough at present.

Allocated NMS 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Community Care

0

0

0

Debt

455

298

361

Education

6

16

20

Employment

0

58

36

Family

1,024

1,223

1,352

Housing

474

758

697

Immigration

0

260

0

Welfare benefits

4

18

34

Miscellaneous

238

287

199

Total

2,201

2,918

2,699


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