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Lancaster Farms Young Offender Institute

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he plans to take to relieve overcrowding on the young offenders side of Her Majesty's Young Offender Institute, Lancaster Farms in order to allow ex-juvenile offenders to transfer from the juvenile side on reaching their 18th birthday. [226471]

Mr. Hanson: The policy of the Youth Justice Board is that those young people serving a Detention and Training Order aged 18 and over in a Prison Service unit should remain in the young persons' estate to complete the custodial part of their sentence unless there are exceptional personal or population management circumstances which require them to be moved to the young adult estate.

For those sentenced to longer sentences, arrangements are in place to ensure that within a month of their 18th birthday they are relocated to the young adult estate.

Prisoners

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how long on average elapsed between the time that prisoners were unlocked in the morning and returned to their cells in the evening in the last three months for which figures are available; and what the average number of returns to and releases during the day was (a) on weekdays and (b) at weekends, broken down by each (i) adult (A) male and (B) female prison and (ii) (1) male and (2) female young offender institution in England and Wales. [226253]

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Mr. Hanson: The average weekday time out of cell for the last three available months is shown in the following table. Data are provisional and subject to ongoing validation.

	Average weekday time out of cell
May	9.53
June	9.57
July	9.72

The National Offender Management Service does not collate data on the number of returns to cells and releases from cells during the day, on (a) weekdays and (b) weekends. Therefore, this data cannot be provided for each prison.

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners from London are being held in prisons outside London; [227119]

(2) how many prisoners were held in prisons outside the criminal justice area of their last known address in each of the last 10 years, broken down by criminal justice area. [227120]

Mr. Hanson: As at March 2008 (the latest date for which data are available), 11,200 prisoners out of a total of 16,600 prisoners who gave London as their home area were held outside of London. This issue is one of the reasons why we are seeking to extend capacity through the larger prison programme in London and the South East.

Data on the distance from criminal justice area are only available from 2005 onwards and is shown in the tables.

Average figures for distance from home for prisoners are 50 miles for men and 58 miles for women.

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	September 2005			September 2006
CJ area	Number of prisoners from area	Number of prisoners from CJ area held outside area	Proportion of prisoners held out of CJ area (Percentage)	Number of prisoners from area	Number of prisoners from CJ area held outside area	Proportion of prisoners held out of CJ area (Percentage)
Avon and Somerset	1,727	1,157	67	1,699	1,162	68
Bedfordshire	881	641	73	938	733	78
Cambridgeshire	779	423	54	834	487	58
Cheshire	1,337	1,047	78	1,287	1,012	79
Cleveland	1,353	707	52	1,217	641	53
Cumbria	471	390	83	495	413	83
Derbyshire	1,052	1,004	95	1,115	1,071	96
Devon and Cornwall	1,474	693	47	1,325	547	41
Dorset	610	293	48	682	354	52
Durham	409	327	80	696	537	77
Dyfed-Powys	386	386	100	430	430	100
Essex	1,453	1,090	75	1,543	1,201	78
Gloucestershire	487	322	66	558	408	73
Greater Manchester	5,063	2,670	53	5,212	2,907	56
Gwent	498	465	93	583	534	92
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	1,969	1,078	55	1,996	1,145	57
Hertfordshire	837	783	94	917	876	96
Humberside	1,509	750	50	1,393	689	49
Kent	2,059	618	30	2,049	790	39
Lancashire	2,391	1,056	44	2,400	1,134	47
Leicestershire	1,150	645	56	1,184	681	58
Lincolnshire	598	375	63	609	416	68
London	12,690	7,632	60	13,548	8,584	63
Merseyside	2,848	1,816	64	3,268	2,199	67
Norfolk	824	431	52	775	393	51
North Wales	657	657	100	654	654	100
North Yorkshire	679	663	98	720	706	98
Northamptonshire	824	648	79	895	724	81
Northumbria	1,832	1,344	73	1,821	1,338	73
Nottinghamshire	1,917	1,332	69	1,994	1,379	69
South Wales	2,058	818	40	2,031	764	38
South Yorkshire	2,394	1,108	46	2,516	1,275	51
Staffordshire	1,346	999	74	1,207	921	76
Suffolk	556	472	85	650	538	83
Surrey	629	392	62	747	496	66
Sussex	1,590	1,106	70	1,619	1,122	69
Thames Valley	2,028	917	45	2,220	1,104	50
Warwickshire	657	657	100	507	507	100
West Mercia	1,287	843	66	1,153	762	66
West Midlands	4,825	3,712	77	5,984	4,810	80
West Yorkshire	3,842	2,072	54	3,926	2,231	57
Wiltshire	405	371	92	465	423	91

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