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Prisoners: Pay

Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average pay was for prisoners in (a) education and (b) work programmes in 2006-07. [175469]

Mr. Hanson: A survey on prisoners' pay which was carried out during April/May 2007 indicated that the average pay for prisoners was approximately.

£ per week
(a) Education	9.08
(b) Work	9.60

Prisons

Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to improve the level and consistency of provision of purposeful activity in prisons. [174514]

Mr. Hanson: The standard core day to be introduced from April 2008 will provide a greater level of consistency and certainty to the time prisoners spend undertaking purposeful activity.

Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisons pay the same wages for participation in education and in work programmes. [175468]

Mr. Hanson: This information is not collated centrally however to establish pay rates in prisons a survey was carried out during April/May 2007 and this indicated that 19 establishments pay equal wages for participation in education and work.

Probation Service

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps the Government has taken to assist with the demand on the work of probation services caused by prisoners being released early. [175270]

Mr. Hanson: Probation boards have received £300,000 in 2007-08 for the additional work arising from the End of Custody Licence scheme. The level of resources needed will be kept under review.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what was spent on local management for the Probation Service in England and Wales for each financial year since 1997-98. [175379]

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Mr. Hanson: Expenditure on local management is not separately reported by probation boards and it would be a disproportionate cost to collect this back to 1997-98.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what was spent on approved premises for the Probation Service in England and Wales for each financial year since 1997-98. [175382]

Maria Eagle: The following data set out what has been spent in total on the Approved Premises estate in each of the last five years.

	£
2002-03	52,219,391
2003-04	61,998,242
2004-05	63,567,929
2005-06	73,358,001
2006-07	84,599,882
Total	335,743,445

Data prior to this period are not held by the Ministry of Justice or the National Offender Management Service.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what was spent on public protection for the Probation Service in England and Wales for each financial year since 1997-98. [175383]

Mr. Hanson: Expenditure on public protection is not identified as a separate component of Probation Boards' financial reports and it would be a disproportionate cost to separately identify it back to 1997-98.

Public protection is intrinsic to many aspects of probation work and as such the cost cannot be separately identified.

Probation Service: Staff

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of staff employed by the Probation Service in England and Wales were in daily direct contact with offenders in each of the last 10 years. [173769]

Maria Eagle: All probation staff in the NPS are employed by the relevant probation board who are responsible for managing work load allocation. It is therefore not possible to provide information at this level. Information is however collected on the number of staff employed in offender management roles.

The following table shows the number of staff working in an offender management role from 2003 onwards. Data prior to 2003 were collated by a different source and was incomplete in some categories. It is therefore not directly comparable with the figures collected since that time.

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Role	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Offender management role	17,551.20	17,771.71	18,630.41	19,155.90	18,706.47
Percentage	91.79	91.03	90.69	89.81	89.82
Other roles	1,570.60	1,751.27	1,911.65	2,173.08	2,120.86
Percentage	8.21	8.97	9.31	10.19	10.18
Total	19,121.80	19,522.98	20,542.06	21,328.98	20,827.33
Percentage	100	100	100	100	100

Probation Service: West Midlands

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps the Government have taken to improve the Probation Service in the West Midlands. [175269]

Maria Eagle: West Midlands probation area is receiving additional oversight from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Performance Improvement Unit and this will continue until there is evidence of a sustained improvement.

With guidance from NOMS, the management of West Midlands probation area have designed a comprehensive 'Solutions Programme' focused on lifting performance. The aim of the strategy is for West Midlands probation area to achieve the required standards of performance and organisational capability.

The most recent performance data give an early indication of improvement.

Young Offender Institutions

Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what injuries were sustained by boys held in Werrington Young Offender Institution during physical control and restraint in each month in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007; [175253]

(2) what injuries were sustained by boys held in Wetherby Young Offender Institution during control and restraint in each month in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007. [175254]

Maria Eagle: The information for Werrington and Wetherby is set out in the following table. It should be noted that the injuries set out in the table were subsequent to fights between young people, and that it is likely that a number of the injuries were sustained in the fights rather than during restraint. The incidents are recorded nonetheless.

	Werrington	Wetherby
2006
January	Nose bleed	Sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x4, grazing to arms x3
February	Split lip, grazes, bruising	Reddening to wrists x4, grazing to arms x3
March	Minor bruising x3, nose bleed, cut to forehead	Fractured wrist, sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x2, grazing to arms, grazing to face x2
April	Marks to face and neck	Reddening to wrists x6, grazing to arms
May	Swelling to jaw	Reddening to wrists x5, grazing to arms, grazing to legs, grazing to face
June	Swelling to hand x2, nose bleed, graze to knee	Reddening to wrists x3
July	Pain in wrist	Sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x6, grazing to legs
August	Sore wrist x2, superficial cuts	Reddening to wrists x4, grazing to arms x3
September	0	Sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x9, grazing to arms, grazing to legs, grazing to face
October	Tender thumb	Fractured wrist, reddening to wrists x5
November	Abrasions, swelling to ear	Sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x4, bruised finger
December	Grazes to side of face	Reddening to wrists, grazing to arms, grazing to legs, grazing to face
2007
January	Broken arm	Reddening to wrists x4
February	Pain in hand, injury to little finger	Sprained wrist, reddening to wrists x2
March	0	Fractured wrist, reddening to wrists, grazing to face x2, grazing to arms, grazing to legs
April	Grazed knuckles, injury to middle finger	Reddening to wrists x3
May	Carpet burn	Reddening to wrists
June	Carpet burn	Reddening to wrists x3, grazing to face
July	Graze to elbow	Reddening to wrists x4
August	Scratches to face, loss of consciousness, fractured scaphoid	Reddening to wrists x4, grazing to face, grazing to arms
September	0	Reddening to wrists x6
October	Scratch to cheek	Head injury, reddening to wrists x4, graze to head, grazing to arms
November	Small laceration to inner lip, slight scratch to hand	Reddening to wrists x2

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Scotland

Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme

Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether his Department has adopted the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Management programme. [173083]

David Cairns: The Scotland Office is included in the Ministry of Justice’s environmental management programme which includes implementing the Government’s UK Sustainable Action Plan, published on 5 March 2007.

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