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Prison Service: Dismissal
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many Prison Service employees have been dismissed as a result of their non-compliance with rules on (a) sex and (b) race discrimination in the last five years for which figures are available. [179733]
Mr. Hanson: According to centrally held records in the public sector Prison Service, 24 employees were dismissed as a result of their non-compliance with rules on sex discrimination and race discrimination between January 2003 and December 2007.
Prisoners Release
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what guidance is given to prison governors on arrangements for releasing juveniles at the end of their sentences when they have no accommodation arranged. [180288]
Maria Eagle: Prison Service Order 6400 requires that, where a prisoner has no address to go to on release, the relevant housing advice or resettlement/youth offending team worker must be informed.
Planning for a young person’s resettlement, in particular the living arrangements, must begin during induction and continue throughout the custodial period. The relevant youth offending team must ensure that each young person gains access, where appropriate, to the accommodation services which local authority social services and housing departments have a duty to provide.
Prisoners Release: Foreigners
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many convicted foreign national prisoners were released from prisons in England and Wales in the last 12 months. [179901]
Mr. Straw: There were 78,400 discharges from determinate sentences on completion of sentence or on licence of adult and young adult offenders in 2006 (the latest year for which data are available), of which around 7,300 (9 per cent.) were foreign nationals.
For the proportion of total prisoners who are foreign nationals, Council of Europe data on foreign national prisoners held in other major western countries reveal much higher proportions, for example in Austria (43 per cent.), Spain (33 per cent.), Germany (28 per cent.) and France (21 per cent.) than the figure for England and Wales (14 per cent.), based on 2006 population data.
The domestic 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: Australasia
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) Australian and (b) New Zealand nationals are in prison in the UK. [179492]
Mr. Hanson: At the end of September 2007, the latest date for which figures are currently available, there were (a) 26 Australian and (b) 10 New Zealand prisoners held in all prison establishments in England and Wales.
This information is available at the following website:
The following website gives the publishing schedule for Ministry of Justice statistical publications:
Data for December 2007 will be published on 31 January 2008.
Comparable information for Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
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: Foreigners
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library copies of all correspondence between the Border and Immigration Agency and the National Offender Management Service on policy towards foreign national prisoners. [179920]
Mr. Straw: Policy towards foreign national prisoners is the subject of joint work and ongoing discussions between NOMS and BIA. The revised Prison Service Order 4630 was agreed as part of continuing policy development and detailed discussions on other matters have been the subject of the monthly liaison meetings which have taken place since April 2007. I have placed a copy of the PSO in the Library.
Disclosure of correspondence into the public domain would prejudice the effective exchange of views between both BIA and NOMS which is necessary when developing policies and procedures in respect of foreign national prisoners.
Prisons
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the estimated cost is of creating the Titan prison model, including resources to (a) develop, (b) design, (c) plan and (d) procure the prison; [176098]
(2) what the estimated annual total running cost is of a 2,500-bed Titan prison; [176099]
(3) what the estimated total running costs are of the additional prison places due to be delivered by 2014; [176101]
(4) pursuant to his statement of 5 December 2007, Official Report, column 827, on prisons: Carter Review, how much of the £1.2 billion for prisons announced in his Statement is available for his Department to spend (a) immediately and (b) after March 2011; [176265]
(5) pursuant to his statement of 5 December 2007, Official Report, on the Carter review of prisons, how much of the £1.2 billion for prisons will be available in each financial year up to 2014 for (a) capital construction and (b) resource spending; [176664]
(6) what proportion of the £1.2 billion for prisons announced in his statement of 5 December 2007, Official Report, column 828, on the Carter review of prisons, has been allocated for (a) building new prisons and (b) increasing capacity in existing prisons. [176665]
Mr. Straw: I announced on 5 December 2007 a programme for building 10,500 prison places to be delivered by 2014. This was in response to Lord Carter’s Review on Prisons Securing the Future. The programme includes building up to three large ‘Titan’ prisons, housing around 2,500 prisoners each and closing old and inefficient prisons. The cost of construction (including development and design but not land) of the Titan prisons has been estimated to be around £350 million each at 2007-08 prices.
The indicative funding profile for this programme for the CSR period 2008-09 to 2010-11 is shown in the following table. The table also includes provision for
the purchase of land for Titans and for the possible conversion of a second military camp that has been provisionally allocated to the post 2011 SR period and will be subject to the usual SR process.
| £ million | |||||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | Total | |
| (1) -£10 million represents funding moved into earlier years to allow faster progress on the programme. | |||||
Around £700 million is estimated for the building and conversion of new places at existing prison sites. This is included in the aforementioned table. Funding does not include the construction and operating costs of the Titan prisons which are planned to open after 2011. This will also be subject to the usual SR process.
Sites have been identified for quick build units within the prison estate and are subject to the usual planning process. However, planning for the individual projects
(which includes Titans), including the delivery timeframe and capital and resource requirements in each year, is being developed. Work is progressing to assess the various procurement options and associated costs to deliver Titan prisons.
The Carter Report (pages 19-20) gave estimates of a range of capital unit cost per place for the various security categories of prisoner accommodation. Currently the estimated capital cost of the programme announced on 5 December is £2.3 billion including the current CSR period and beyond.
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the certified normal accommodation was for each prison in each week since 26 January 2007. [180292]
Mr. Hanson: The following tables show the in-use CNA(1) for prisons in England and Wales on the last Friday of each month in 2007.
(1) In-use certified normal accommodation (in-use CNA), or uncrowded capacity, is the sum total of all certified accommodation in an establishment less those places not available for immediate use, for example: damaged cells, cells affected by building works. In-use CNA does not normally include cells in punishment or segregation units or health care cells or rooms in training prisons and YOIs that are not routinely used to accommodate long stay patients.
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