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Prisoner Escapes
Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful attempts were made to escape from HM Prison Lancaster since June 2007. [288562]
Maria Eagle: There have been no successful escapes or unsuccessful escape attempts from HMP Lancaster since June 2007. Escapes from prison have been falling for over a decade and 2008-09 saw the lowest level of prison escapes since records began.
Figures on escapes and a range of other prison performance statistics are available at:
Prisoners
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners held on their own in cells designed for more than one prisoner have been assessed as (a) high risk and (b) very high risk. [287873]
Claire Ward: The Cell Sharing Risk Assessment process provides a risk category of low, medium or high risk to prisoners when they enter custody. The category 'very high risk' is not used. Data is not held centrally on the number of prisoners allocated to each category.
Prisoners: Pay
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the average weekly rate of unemployment pay paid in each prison in England and Wales was in 2008; [288192]
(2) what the standard rate of weekly prisoner pay for each job or other purposeful activity was in each prison in England and Wales in 2008. [288193]
Maria Eagle: The information requested is not centrally available and could be collated only by manual checking with individual establishments, which would incur disproportionate cost. However, Prison Service Order 4460 (Prisoners' Pay), a copy of which has been placed in the House Library, sets out minimum rates of prisoner pay which includes allowance levels for unemployment and for work (enabling prisoners to obtain life skills), education and other duties or activities. The PSO sets a minimum unemployed rate of £2.50 per week and an employed rate of pay of £4.00 per week. However Governors have devolved authority to set rates of pay for their particular establishment and these will reflect the particular regime priorities of their establishment.
Prisoners: Wales
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) women and (b) men with a home address in Wales were serving custodial sentences in each prison outside Wales at the latest date for which figures are available; and what lengths of sentence such prisoners were serving. [291171]
Maria Eagle: The following tables show the total number of sentenced females (table A) and sentenced males (table B) with a home address in Wales who are held in a prison in England as of May 2009. The tables include the sentences these prisoners are serving and in which prisons in England they are held.
The figures in both tables include sentenced juveniles and young offenders.
Home area is taken as a prisoner's home address. If no home address is recorded the court of first committal is used as a proxy address for recording purposes.
| Table A | |||||
| Prison | Less than 6 months | 6 months to less than 12 months | 12 months to less than 4 years | 4 years or over | Total |
| Table B | |||||
| Prison | Less than 6 months | 6 months to less than 12 months | 12 months to less than 4 years | 4 years or over | Total |
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