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| Establishment | Number of places out of use | Percentage of CNA |
Prisoners
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners had been reassessed and recategorised into a different security level to that of their current prison on 1 March 2009 and were awaiting transfer and unable to be moved; and for how long each had been awaiting transfer. [278703]
Mr. Hanson: This information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost as it would involve contacting every prison who would then have to consult individual prisoner records.
There has been no relaxation of security categorisation standards.
Public protection remains paramount when undertaking the categorisation process.
Prisons
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) infrastructural and physical and (b) security criteria are for buildings that are to be designated (i) category C and (ii) category D prisons. [277068]
Mr. Straw: Category A, B. C and D refers to the regime by which prisoners are managed, not the prison. All prisons, apart from open (Category D) prisons, are built to common standard, with certain modifications where additional security requirements are required and appropriate to the category of prisoner housed there.
Category C are prisoners who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who do not have the resources and will to make a determined escape attempt. The security in prisons holding these prisoners will include a secure fence/wall in accommodation blocks.
Category D are prisoners who present a low risk, can reasonably be trusted in open conditions and for whom open conditions are appropriate. There are currently no direct build standards for Category D conditions.
Prisons: Military Bases
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many disused military sites have been acquired and converted into category (a) A, (b) B, (c) C and (d) D prisons in each of the last 30 years. [278638]
Mr. Straw: A total of 39 new prisons, including the prison ship the Weare which has since closed, have opened since 1979.
A number of these were built on sites either directly acquired from the Ministry of Defence (MOD), or acquired from a third partly but which previously belonged to the MOD.
A detailed investigation of the site records is necessary to determine their precise origin. I will write to the hon. and learned Member as soon as this investigation is complete.
Probation Officers
Mr. David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department is taking to ensure that trainee probation officers due to qualify in September 2009 are offered jobs in the Probation Service. [277747]
David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent estimate he has made of (a) the number of trainee probation officers who will qualify in 2009 and (b) the number of jobs available to newly qualified probation officers in 2009. [277837]
Mr. Hanson: There are 556 trainee probation officers (TPOs) due to complete the Diploma in Probation Studies in September 2009. A recent survey of the 42 probation areas, who are the employers, has shown that it is too soon to be certain how many of these graduates will be offered jobs in the Probation Service.
The regional directors of Offender Management have been asked to review the position of their local Probation Boards and Trusts to ensure that decisions about TPO employment are based on credible workforce plans that take full account of the staffing requirements of the next three years within the region and elsewhere in the country.
Probation: Expenditure
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what expenditure his Department and its predecessor incurred on the Probation Service in each year since 2000. [277806]
Mr. Straw: Expenditure on probation services is as follows:
| £ million | ||
| Resource | Capital | |
Information for 2008-09 is not yet available. The financial data include probation boards, the National Probation Directorate and (from 2004-05) the National Offender Management Service. Comparisons over a long period are difficult due to machinery of government changes and accounting methodology changes.
Probation: North Yorkshire
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the (a) community and (b) custody caseload was for North Yorkshire Probation Area on 31 March of each of the last five financial years; [277058]
(2) how many cases were referred to multi-agency public protection panels in North Yorkshire Probation Area in each of the last five financial years. [277062]
Mr. Hanson: The total community and pre-release custodial offender caseload for North Yorkshire as at 31 March in each of the last five years was as follows:
| Supervised in community | Supervised in custody | |
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.
The following table shows the total number of multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) eligible offenders living in the community in North Yorkshire. The table also shows the number of eligible offenders who were managed at the higher MAPPA levels and who were considered by multi-agency public protection panels. Cases are referred to level 2 where the ongoing involvement of several agencies will be required to implement or monitor the risk management plan and to level 3 where more senior oversight is additionally required. The data are taken from North Yorkshire's MAPPA annual report.
| North Yorkshire | |||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| (1 )Not collected. | |||||
The doubling of level 2 cases from 2006 to 2007 reflects a change in the way North Yorkshire approached identifying category 3 cases and not a doubling of complex cases at that time.
There has been a 70 per cent. increase in probation funding in real terms over the last 10 years and an increase of more than a third in staff. The Probation Service continues to cut reoffending rates, increase successful drug treatments and offending behaviour programmes, and carry out visible and punitive community payback.
Probation: Staffordshire
Michael Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the (a) community and (b) custody caseload for Staffordshire probation area was on 31 March in each of the last five financial years; [276982]
(2) how many cases the Staffordshire probation area referred to multi-agency public protection panels in each of the last five financial years; [276983]
(3) how many offenders in Staffordshire probation area were categorised as Tier 4 in each of the last five financial years. [276984]
Mr. Hanson: The total community and pre-release custodial offender caseload for Staffordshire as at 31 March in each of the last five years was as follows:
| Supervised in community | Supervised in custody | |
The total number of offenders in Staffordshire who were categorised as Tier 4 as at 31 March in each of the last three years was as follows:
| Number | |
Information on tier prior to 1 April 2005 was not recorded.
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.
The following table shows the total number of multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) eligible offenders living in the community in Staffordshire. The table also shows the number of eligible offenders who were managed at the higher MAPPA levels and who were considered by multi-agency public protection panels. Cases are referred to level 2 where the ongoing involvement of several agencies will be required to implement or monitor the risk management plan and to level 3 where more senior oversight is additionally required. Cases can be referred by any agency but the identity of the referring agency is not recorded. This data is taken from Staffordshire's MAPPA annual report.
| Staffordshire | |||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| (1 )Not collected. | |||||
There has been a 70 per cent. increase in probation funding in real terms over the last 10 years and an increase of more than a third in staff. The Probation Service continues to cut reoffending rates, increase successful drug treatments and offending behaviour programmes, and carry out visible and punitive community payback.
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