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Prison Sentences

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison places are available at each prison serving the Greater Manchester area when at full capacity; and how many prisoners were serving sentences at each such prison on the latest date for which figures are available. [300817]

Maria Eagle: The following table gives the numbers of prisoners serving sentences in prison establishments in the North West region at the end of June 2009, the latest date for which figures are available.

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Establishment	Operational capacity	Sentenced population	Held on remand and civil offenders	Total held in custody
Altcourse	1324	975	339	1,314
Buckley Hall	381	377	0	377
Forest Bank	1160	697	447	1,144
Garth	847	817	0	817
Hindley	515	218	71	289
Haverigg	644	629	0	629
Kirkham	590	566	2	568
Kennet	342	336	0	336
Lancaster Castle	243	228	0	228
Lancaster Farms	530	392	101	493
Liverpool	1,445	990	347	1,337
Manchester	1,286	846	380	1,226
Preston	842	411	335	746
Risley	1,093	1,079	1	1,080
Styal	458	317	133	450
Thorn Cross	322	301	0	301
Wymott	1,144	1,126	1	1,127
Total	13,166	10,305	2157	12,462

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 operational capacity of a prison is the total number of prisoners that an establishment can hold taking into account control, security and the proper operation of the planned regime. It is determined by area managers on the basis of operational judgment and experience.

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence for public protection were over tariff (a) having had a parole hearing and (b) not yet having had a parole hearing on the most recent date for which figures are available; [300818]

(2) how many cases involving prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection processed by the Parole Board were (a) resolved, (b) deferred or adjourned at the hearing and (c) deferred or cancelled at the pre-hearing stage in each month in each of the last five years. [300819]

Maria Eagle: We are in the process of undertaking an audit of data on outstanding parole reviews for prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP). I will write to the hon. Member, once the audit is complete and will place a copy of the reply in the Library.

The number of prisoners serving IPP sentences, whose parole applications were referred to the Parole Board, and which were (a) resolved, (b) deferred or adjourned at the hearing and (c) deferred or cancelled at the pre-hearing stage in each month since the inception of IPP sentences are shown in the tables below. The information has been collated from data held by the Parole Board. It is broken down by month and financial year categorised as: resolved by oral hearing; resolved by paper decision; deferred or adjourned at hearing; and cancelled or deferred before the hearing was convened. (The monthly split for cases deferred or adjourned at the hearing is not available for the financial year 2006-07.)

2006-07
	Resolved by oral hearing	Resolved by paper decision	Deferred or adjourned at hearing	Cancelled or deferred pre-hearing
April 2006	3	0	n/a	0
May 2006	0	0	n/a	2
June 2006	1	0	n/a	1
July 2006	1	0	n/a	2
August 2006	2	0	n/a	0
September 2006	3	0	n/a	4
October 2006	2	0	n/a	5
November 2006	5	0	n/a	3
December 2006	7	0	n/a	1
January 2007	5	0	n/a	4
February 2007	10	0	n/a	5
March 2007	11	0	n/a	6
Financial year total	50	0	(1)24	33
(1) This is the annual total as monthly figures are not available for 2006-07

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2007-08
	Resolved by oral hearing	Resolved by paper decision	Deferred or adjourned at hearing	Cancelled or deferred pre-hearing
April 2007	12	0	1	6
May 2007	11	0	2	3
June 2007	22	0	3	6
July 2007	30	0	3	16
August 2007	15	0	0	6
September 2007	33	0	8	11
October 2007	13	0	4	0
November 2007	32	8	7	11
December 2007	17	0	6	2
January 2008	8	4	3	3
February 2008	6	3	4	6
March 2008	10	10	3	2
Financial year total	209	25	44	72

2008-09
	Resolved, by oral hearing	Resolved by paper decision	Deferred or adjourned at hearing	Cancelled or deferred pre hearing
April 2008	18	3	5	5
May 2008	21	9	5	3
June 2008	30	5	4	11
July 2008	25	3	10	13
August 2008	32	0	9	5
September 2008	40	2	7	11
October 2008	47	(1)0	8	8
November 2008	45	9	13	8
December 2008	49	13	14	19
January 2009	31	7	14	18
February 2009	54	33	16	20
March 2009	41	35	18	10
Financial year total	433	119	123	131
(1) Figures for resolved by paper decision are not available for October 2008

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