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| Completion targets for accredited programmes in 2008-09 | |
| 2008-09 | Completion target |
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.
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what reason offenders on community supervision experience the end-to-end offender management established through the Gate Practices and Protocols. [235057]
Mr. Malik: The Offender Management model ensures a high level of consistency throughout an offender's whole sentence, both in custody and under supervision in the community. This supports continuity of progress in achievement of the aims of the court both for sentences with a custodial element and those without.
Office of the Public Guardian
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) complaints and (b) other representations he has received on the operation of the Office of the Public Guardian from (i) members of the public and (ii) solicitors in the last 12 months. [235540]
Bridget Prentice: Since the creation of the Office of the Public Guardian on 1 October 2007 215 complaints or other representations on the operation of the Office of the Public Guardian have been received at ministerial level. Of these 199 were received from members of the public, or through their Member of Parliament, and 16 were received from solicitors.
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent assessment he has made of the performance of the Office of the Public Guardian in offering services to members of the public. [235541]
Bridget Prentice: During July and August the OPG cleared a backlog of applications due to exceptionally high volume and by the end of August was dealing with all new applications within the expected end-to-end target of nine weeks (including the statutory six week waiting period) as per its published service standards.
The backlog of applications processed in July and August reached the final stage of the registration process throughout September and early October. During this period, the final stage of the process—notifying customers their LPA had been registered—slipped slightly to take up to two weeks instead of the one week target. However, since mid-October all such notifications have been issued within the one week target and the end- to-end process is again back within the nine week target.
We continue to monitor volumes in this area of work closely as they continue to remain high and are actively looking at ways to build additional contingency within the system to accommodate any further increases in volumes.
Prisons: Drugs
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisons in England and Wales have implemented the integrated drug treatment system. [234551]
Mr. Hanson: As at 1 September 2008, of the 53 prisons in the first and second waves of Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS), 49 were assessed as delivering an operational service providing all key elements of IDTS clinical services.
Rape: Compensation
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, column 717W, on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, what guidance is in place on the payment of compensation to victims of rape by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. [234584]
Maria Eagle: The payment of compensation to victims of all violent crime is governed by the provisions of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2008. Guidance on the payment of compensation to victims of all types of violent crime is contained in the booklet “A Guide to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2008”, which is available to all applicants on request. Further guidance is also available on CICA’s website:
Those applications received before 3 November 2008 will be considered under the 2001 scheme and its accompanying guidance.
Vandalism: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in Hemel Hempstead were given (a) immediate fines, (b) compensation orders and (c) cautions for acts of vandalism in each of the last five years. [234574]
Maria Eagle: Data on the number of persons issued with (a) penalty notices for disorder or ‘on the spot’ fines for criminal damage amounting to less than £500, which includes acts of vandalism, in Hertfordshire in the last three years are set out in the following table. The offence of criminal damage was added to the PND scheme in November 2004
The court proceedings and cautions data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform do not enable offences involving vandalism to be separately identified from other acts of “Criminal Damage”.
It is not possible to further break down data to constituency level (i.e. Hemel Hempstead) as this level of detail is not held centrally.
Penalty notices for disorder data for 2007 will be available at the end of November 2008.
Vandalism: Suffolk
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people in Suffolk have been given (a) immediate fines, (b) compensation orders and (c) cautions for acts of vandalism in each of the last five years; [233494]
(2) how many people in Suffolk have been given (a) immediate fines, (b) compensation orders and (c) cautions for acts of violent crime in each of the last five years. [233495]
Maria Eagle: Data on the number of persons issued with (a) penalty notices for disorder or ‘on the spot’ fines for criminal damage amounting to less than £500, which includes acts of vandalism, in Suffolk in the last three years are set out in table 1. The offence of criminal damage was added to the PND scheme in November 2004.
The court proceedings and cautions data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform do not enable offences involving vandalism to be separately identified, from other acts of “Criminal Damage”.
Data on the number of persons issued with a (b) compensation order (c) caution for violence against the person in Suffolk in the least five years can be viewed in tables 2 and 3 respectively. Violence against the person offence data are the measure used by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform to represent violent crime.
Penalty notices for disorder are not available for offences involving violence.
These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the following tables relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When an offender is dealt with more than one offence at the same time, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed, then the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
Court proceedings and cautions data for 2007 will be available at the end of November 2008.
| Table 2: N umber of persons sentenced at all courts with a compensation order for offences relating to violence against the person in Suffolk police force area, 2002 to 2006( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3) | |
| Compensation orders | |
| (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 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 statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence 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. Source: Court proceedings data held by Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit | |
| Table 3: N umber of persons issued with a caution for violence against the person, in Suffolk police force area, 2002 to 2006( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3) | |
| Violence against the person | |
| (1) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. (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 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 cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit | |
Young Offenders: Remand in Custody
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) 15, (b) 16 and (c) 17 year olds were on remand in each police force area in each year since 1997; and how many went on to serve a prison sentence. [234448]
Mr. Hanson:
The number of 15 to 17-year-olds held on remand (incorporating untried and convicted unsentenced) in all prison establishments in England
and Wales since 1997 can be found in the following table. A breakdown by police force area is not available.
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