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Prospects Project: Exeter
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average length of stay was of the 132 referrals to the Prospects Project in Exeter between December 2005 and February 2008; and what the cost was of each referral. [216992]
Mr. Hanson: The average length stay for the 132 Prospects Exeter residents between December 2005 and February 2008 was 39 days.
The total operational costs for period in question was £1,544,812 and the total available bedspaces for that period was 14,220 (the Exeter project having 18 beds). The cost of each bedspace was therefore £109 per day.
The average cost per resident within Prospects Exeter between December 2005 and February 2008 was £4,251.
The decision to terminate the pilot will save £4 million in 2008-09 and £6 million a year thereafter. Resources will be redirected to services that offer greater value for money and impact on a larger offender group.
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were admitted to the Prospects project in each year between December 2005 and February 2008. [216993]
Mr. Hanson: The number of people admitted to the Prospects project in each year between December 2005 and February 2008 are as follows:
| Exeter | |
| Admissions | |
|
January (when the first residents were admitted)-December 2006 | |
| Preston | |
| Residents | |
No residents were admitted as the Prospects project at Merseyside as the project did not become operational before the Prospects programme was closed.
| Bristol | |
| Residents | |
| (1) Site not operational | |
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff were employed at the Prospects project in Exeter; and what their duties were. [216994]
Mr. Hanson:
The Prospects project at Exeter employed a manager and deputy manager, six full-time assistant managers and four full-time night managers. There was an additional (equivalent) 1.5 staff which provided project resource and administrative support. The manager had overall responsibility for service delivery and management of staff groups, the deputy manager oversaw day to day regime delivery and provide offender management expertise regarding risk assessment and sentence planning; assistant managers would deliver the Prospects regime and deliver
the overall sentence plan within the residential unit and in the community; night managers provided supervision and security cover throughout the night. Exeter drugs partnership were also commissioned to provide specialist drugs workers to deliver a drug abstinence regime as well as individual counselling.
Reoffenders: Drugs
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many ex-offenders were arrested for drug offences within a fortnight of leaving prison in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [215816]
Mr. Hanson: The following table shows the number of offenders released from custody who committed a re-offence for a drugs offence within a fortnight of their release (up to and including 14 days), where the offender was subsequently convicted of this offence at court. These figures have been taken from the most recently available adult re-offending cohorts, which include all prisoners released(1) in the first quarters of 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
| Quarter one | Number of offenders committing a drug re-offence within a fortnight of release | Total number of releases from prison( 1) | Percentage of offenders committing a drug offence within a fortnight of release |
| (1 )Where the offender could be matched to the Police National Computer (PNC). Note: Data on re-offending was not produced for the 2001 Q1 cohort because of a problem with archived data on community sentences. | |||
Television: Licensing
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in England and Wales were (a) fined and (b) prosecuted for non-payment of television licence fees in each of the last five years, broken down by region. [215033]
Maria Eagle: The number of persons fined, and proceeded against at magistrates courts, for offences relating to television licence evasion in England and Wales, by region for the years 2002 to 2006 can be viewed in the following tables.
These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
Court proceedings data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.
| N umber of persons proceeded against at magistrates' courts for offences relating to TV licence evasion by region in England and Wales, 2002-06( 1, 2, 3) | |||||
| Region | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) The TV licensing provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 were replaced by new provisions in the Communications Act 2003 which came into effect 1 April 2004. (4) Following quality checks, data for certain Police Force Areas within corresponding regions are not considered reliable enough for publication. (5) England and Wales totals excludes those Police Force Areas with data quality issues. Source: CJEAU - Office for Criminal Justice Reform - Ministry of Justice. | |||||
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