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| Table 2: Self-harm incidents pre-F213SH (not directly comparable with later years) | |||
| Prison | 2000 | 2001 | 2002( 1) |
| (1 )Transition year when F213SH implementation taking place. (2) These prisons have changed function between female and male in the period in question: * denotes years when females were decanted from prisons changing function. (3 )Prison not yet open. Notes: 1. The self-harm incidents quoted are establishment but not age specific and will include adult women and those under 18 years old. 2. The numbers of self-harm incidents reported in the table are based on information supplied by prisons through the prisons Incident Reporting System. Due to high volume this is subject to technical and recording problems, and whilst the system provides an indication of the scale of self-harm the numbers should not be treated as absolute. 3. The numbers refer to incidents not people. Overall self-harm figures tend to be dominated by serial self-harmers. A significant proportion of self-harm is by the same prisoners on more than one occasion and these individuals account for a disproportionate number of incidents. | |||
Prisons
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many individuals have been detected attempting to break into prisons in England and Wales in each of the last five years. [206822]
Mr. Straw: The data shown in table 1 concern the number of individuals recorded on the National Offender Management Service Incident Reporting System who have been detected attempting to break into prisons in England and Wales in each of the last five years. As multiple individuals were involved in some instances, data have also been provided for the number of incidents.
| Table 1: N umber of individuals recorded on the National Offender Management Service Incident Reporting System who have been detected attempting to break into prisons in England and Wales in each of the last five years | ||
| Individuals involved | Total incidents | |
| Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. The data are not subject to audit. | ||
Of the 42 individuals identified as attempting to break into a prison, there is only one recorded instance of a member of the public managing to break into a closed prison. A breakdown of all the types of incidents where an individual has attempted to break into a prison is shown in table 2.
Prisons: Electronic Surveillance
Andrew Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether the discussions held between the hon. Member for Thurrock and his constituent Michael John Smith at Full Sutton Prison, York on 1 September 1999 and 30 July 2001 were covertly (a) recorded, (b) transmitted and (c) monitored in some other way by or on behalf of any Government Department or agency; and if he will make a statement. [205648]
Mr. Straw: It is not our policy to confirm or deny surveillance operations in prisons. Since the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) came into force, all forms of covert surveillance are subject to a strict and rigorous statutory regime for authorisations, and are conducted in accordance with the guidance set out in the statutory Codes of Practice. Independent oversight is provided, and is overseen by the Office of Surveillance Commissioner. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was established to investigate and rule on any complaints.
As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made clear in her statement on 21 February 2008, Official
Report, column 536, Sir Christopher Rose's inquiry into the surveillance of visits at Woodhill prison found
“no trace in recent years in prison records or anywhere else of any person known to be a Member of Parliament having been monitored during a prison visit”.
Probation: Manpower
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what changes he plans to make to staffing levels in the Kent probation area; and if he will make a statement. [206847]
Mr. Hanson: In this financial year the Probation Service has received an extra £40 million. Kent's share in this was £1.2 million. This additional money, to support intensive work in the community with the most prolific offenders and increase Probation resource in courts to maintain sentencer confidence in community penalties, enabled the Kent Board to reconsider its previous position on compulsory redundancies.
This extra funding is in addition to an average 2.7 per cent. increase on the 2007-08 Probation budgets and on an average of an extra 5.4 per cent. in respect of approved premises.
Overall staffing levels in Kent probation increased by 7.4 per cent. between 2003 and 2007 (up 33.66 FTE to 488.50 FTE). Over the same period, staff in post increased by 12.6 per cent. in Probation Officer roles (up 18.75 FTE to 167.3 FTE) and 7.3 per cent. in Probation Services Officer roles (up 10.41 FTE to 153.7 FTE).
Reoffenders
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners sentenced for violence against the person, sexual offences, or robbery (a) re-offended after release and (b) were released on home detention curfew in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [206497]
Mr. Hanson: The number of adult prisoners discharged in the first quarters of 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and sentenced for violence against the person, robbery or sexual offences who reoffended within one year of release are shown in the following table.
| Total number of offende rs, number of offenders that re offended within one-year and one-year re offending rates for violence against the person, robbery and sexual offences, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 cohorts | |||||
| Q1 | |||||
| 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
Further information on the latest reoffending statistics, and on frequency and severity of re-offending is given in the publication “Re-offending of adults: new measures of re-offending 2000-2005 England and Wales”, available from the Ministry of Justice website:
Figures showing the numbers of prisoners released on home detention curfew from all prisons in England and Wales in each year since 1999 when HDC started can be found in the following table:
| Released on home detention curfew | |||||||||
| Original offence | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
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