Mr. Rob Wilson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many hours per day on average a young offender spent (a) in cells, (b) undergoing education and training and (c) in free association in the latest period for which figures are available. [295934]
Maria Eagle:
In 2008-09 in young offender institution (YOI) and juvenile establishments, an average of 15.5 hours per weekday was spent in cells per prisoner per day including sleeping time. An average of 1.79 hours per day was spent in education and training, with a further 0.71 hours spent on physical education activities both educational and recreational. An average of 2.57 hours per day was spent in free association. The remaining 3.43 hours can be spent on other activities such as chapel visits, work, offending behaviour programmes or sentence planning activities which would be considered purposeful and are therefore recorded. Prisoners may take part in various other activities which are not defined as purposeful under the purposeful activity criteria and are therefore not recorded.
Mr. Rob Wilson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many hours a week were spent by prisoners at Reading Young Offender Institution on (a) education and training, (b) exercise and (c) free association in the latest period for which figures are available. [295937]
Maria Eagle:
An average of 4.89 hours per week was spent on education and training at HMP Reading in 2008-09, an average of 3.85 hours per week was spent on exercise at HMP Reading in 2008-09 and an average of 18.81 hours per week was spent on free association in 2008-09.
Young People: Remand in Custody
Dr. Vis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which local authorities have placed children in secure training centres on remand in each month in the last two years. [296966]
Maria Eagle:
The decision as to whether to remand a young person under 18 to custody is entirely for the courts. The following tables set out the number of occasions on which young people have been remanded into secure training centres from each Youth Offending Team between September 2007 and August 2009. The data have been provided by the Youth Justice Board and are drawn from administrative computer systems and as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time. The data are given by Youth Offending Team, rather then local authority, as data are not recorded by local authority.
