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21 May 2009 : Column 1573W—continued
Young People: Crime Prevention
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 478-81W, on the youth inclusion programme, which (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools are situated on each estate; [275596]
(2) which schools are taking part in the youth inclusion programme in each local authority area. [275650]
Beverley Hughes: The names of schools engaged in Youth Inclusion Programmes (YIPs) are not collected centrally.
All YIPs work with the schools in their catchment area. These will usually be secondary schools, unless it is a Junior YIP (for eight to 12-year-olds). A representative from each of the schools in the area is invited to the multi-agency meeting which identifies the 50 young people for the programme. These are the 50 young people who are deemed to be most at risk of exclusion, truancy or offending in their area.
Some YIPs employ teachers and deliver an education programme to those who are excluded from school, or on the verge of exclusion, so that the young people are reintegrated into school on a full-time basis. YIP workers also work on a one-to-one basis with young people in school in some cases.
Justice
Appeals: Incapacity Benefit
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average waiting time for adjudication on appeals made by individuals removed from eligibility for incapacity benefit payments was in the last period for which figures are available. [276379]
Bridget Prentice: The average waiting time for incapacity benefit appeals for the financial year 2008-09 was 10.9 weeks.
Bribery Bill: Draft
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 6 May 2009, Official Report, column 220W, on Bribery Bill: draft, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter from the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [276543]
Maria Eagle: A copy of the letter was placed in the House of Commons Library on 6 May 2009.
Departmental ICT
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on how many and what proportion of computers in his Department malware was detected in 2008. [275396]
Mr. Straw: It is not in the interests of the UK's national security for Departments to confirm this information.
The Ministry of Justice complies with Mandatory Requirement 39 of the Security Policy Framework which requires a policy on managing risks posed by all forms of malicious software (“malware”).
Departmental Internet
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) page impressions and (b) visitors his Department’s website received in each of the last three financial years. [276428]
Mr. Straw: The figures given in the table are for the departmental website www.justice.gov.uk for the last two financial years since the creation of the Ministry of Justice in May 2007. Visits are included in these figures as they provide a more accurate measure of website usage.
| Number | |
Departmental Mobile Phones
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) BlackBerry devices and (b) mobile telephones have been lost by (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his Department and its predecessor in each year since 2005. [274462]
Mr. Straw: Mobile phones are managed at a local level across much of the Department. Consequently, full records are not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows mobile phone losses for MOJ HQ, National Offender Management Service (NOMS) (including Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS)) and the Office of Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) only. Blackberry loss figures cover Ministry of Justice (MOJ) HQ, NOMS, HMPS, NPS and OCJR:
| Black Be rry | Mobile phones | |
The above information relates to losses by civil servants. As a matter of process, all mobile phones and BlackBerrys that are registered as lost (or stolen) are blocked, making it impossible for them to be used.
2008-09 records show that one BlackBerry was lost by a Minister. No losses of BlackBerrys or mobile phones for special advisers were recorded in the 2008-09 period. Records for previous years do not separate out this information, which therefore cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Departmental Stationery
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has spent on branded stationery and gifts for (a) internal and (b) external promotional use in each of the last five years. [273786]
Maria Eagle: Figures are not held centrally across the Ministry of Justice as within business groups expenditure is not routinely separately recorded; to provide the information on spend on branded stationery and gifts for internal/external promotional use would be disproportionate to cost.
Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many questions for written answer have been tabled to his Department in Session (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 to date; and how many in each case have been (i) answered substantively and (ii) not answered on grounds of disproportionate cost. [276481]
Mr. Straw: 5,304 questions were tabled to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) in the 2007-08 Session. The information requested on how many were answered and not answered due to disproportionate cost is not held centrally and would require a manual check of the answer to each of the 5,304 questions.
However, the database was adapted at the start of the current session and the information gathered shows that MOJ has had 2,562 questions tabled from 3 December 2008 to 15 May 2009 of which 2,257 have been answered substantively, 104 have been answered with partial information or with disproportionate cost answer, 191 have been transferred to other Departments and 10 have been withdrawn.
Driving Offences: Foreigners
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many foreign nationals in charge of (a) cars, (b) heavy goods vehicles and (c) light goods vehicles have been prosecuted for causing (i) death and (ii) injury to (A) pedestrians, (B) cyclists and (C) other drivers in each of the last five years; [276456]
(2) how many foreign nationals in charge of (a) cars, (b) heavy goods vehicles and (c) light goods vehicles have been (i) charged with and (ii) prosecuted for driving offences in each of the last five years. [276457]
Maria Eagle: Information collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice on the Court Proceedings Database does not include nationality of the defendant.
Lindholme Prison
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) UK and (b) foreign national prisoners were in detention in Lindholme prison in each of the last 12 months. [275524]
Mr. Straw: The following table gives the numbers of (a) UK national and (b) foreign national prisoners there were at quarter-year intervals between March 2008 and March 2009 in Lindholme prison.
| Total population | Foreign nationals | UK nationals | Nationality not recorded | |
These figures include foreign national prisoners serving their sentence, those on remand pending prosecution and those being held under immigration powers pending deportation action.
A prisoner’s nationality in respect of these records is self declared. For a period of time the system will always show that a number of prisoners have unrecorded nationality, although in reality this is either undeclared nationality or a refusal to disclose one’s nationality.
Data on foreign national prisoners are published quarterly in the population in custody bulletin, again on the Ministry of Justice website:
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.
Offences Against Children
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 13 May 2009, Official Report, column 833W, on offences against children, what proportion of offenders aged 21 years or over convicted of offences of sexual activity with a child under 13 received (a) immediate custody, (b) a suspended sentence, (c) a community sentence, (d) a fine, (e) a conditional or absolute discharge and (f) other treatment in each year since 1997. [276383]
Mr. Straw: The available information is shown in the following table. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 significantly modernised and strengthened the laws on sexual offences in England and Wales to provide extra protection to children from sexual exploitation. This makes direct comparisons with previous legislation very difficult. Many new offences created by the Act will not have a direct equivalent under the old legislation.
The table shows those sentenced from 2004, the first year in which anyone was sentenced under the relevant sections of the 2003 Act. Offenders who committed such offences before 1 May 2004 will have been sentenced under previous legislation and do not appear in the table: therefore the increased numbers over the years reflect the transition to the new legislation.
The proportion of those given various disposals is shown as a percentage of those sentenced. Lags in time between conviction and sentencing may mean that the total numbers convicted and sentenced in a year may not match. Data held by the Ministry of Justice records the age of the offender at the time of sentencing, the figure's show all offenders aged over 21 and over at that point.
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