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| Table 2: Legal aid applications submitted and granted by (a) Stockport magistrates court and (b) all magistrates courts in the HMCS north-west region | ||||
| October 2006 to March 2007 | April 2007 to March 2008 | April 2008 to March 2009 | April 2009 to October 2009 | |
Police: Databases
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which penalty notices for disorder will be recorded on the PentiP computer system. [305220]
Mr. Hanson: I have been asked to reply.
All penalty notices for disorder issued by police forces in England and Wales will be recorded on the PentiP computer system.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which penalty notices for disorder are recorded on the Police National Computer. [305221]
Mr. Hanson: I have been asked to reply.
All penalty notices for disorder issued for 'recordable offences' are recorded on the Police National Computer. The list of 'recordable offences' is defined by the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the annual running costs of the new PentiP computer system in each of the next three years. [305222]
Mr. Hanson: I have been asked to reply.
The National Policing Improvement Agency has contracted Northgate Public Services to run PentiP as a managed service for an initial period of seven years. The annual charge for providing the managed service to 44 police forces and their associated courts in England and Wales (including British Transport Police) is as follows:
| Service management year | Annual charge (£) |
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) developing and (b) implementing the new PentiP computer system. [305223]
Mr. Hanson: I have been asked to reply.
The PentiP computer system is being delivered by the National Policing Improvement Agency as part of a business continuity project. The full project costs of developing and implementing the PentiP computer system and related business processes across 44 police forces and their associated courts in England and Wales (including British Transport Police) is £17.3 million, which is lower than the £19.3 million original cost estimate. As the development and implementation activities are so inter-linked, it is not possible to separate the costs into (a) development and (b) implementation.
Prisoners
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether prisoners allowed out of prison on resettlement overnight release licences are included in his Department's prison population figures. [305784]
Maria Eagle: Prisoners who have been released on an overnight temporary release licence are included in prison population figures.
These prisoners are required to return to prison after their temporary release has concluded and therefore continue to form part of the overall population for which a prison place is required.
Prisoners Release
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many convicted foreign national prisoners were released from prison in England and Wales in each of the last five years; [306682]
(2) how many foreign national prisoners convicted of each offence have been released from prison since 1 January 2009. [306683]
Maria Eagle: The number of foreign national prisoners (FNPs) discharged from prisons in England and Wales in the last five years following the completion of a determinate sentence is shown in the table.
| Number of discharges | |
| Note: These figures have been rounded to nearest 100. | |
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.
Data for 2009 are not yet available.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners were discharged from a sentence of imprisonment in (a) 2008 and (b) each month in 2009 for which figures are available. [303833]
Mr. Straw: The number of discharges of foreign national prisoners from completed determinate sentences in 2008 was 9,500. This figure has been rounded to the nearest 100.
Data for 2009 are not yet available.
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.
Prisoners: Children in Care
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of people serving custodial sentences who were formerly children in care. [305621]
Maria Eagle: Information on the number of prisoners serving custodial sentences in England and Wales who were formerly in care is not held centrally.
However, a Social Exclusion Unit report 'Reducing re-offending by ex-Prisoners' published in 2002 reported that 27 per cent. of the prison population had been taken into care as a child against an average across the general population of 2 per cent.
Prisoners: Collective Worship
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice in how many prisons all (a) Anglican, (b) Roman Catholic and (c) Free Church or Methodist prisoners were able to attend weekly worship in the last quarter for which figures are available; and in which prisons prisoners of each affiliation were not all able to attend weekly worship in that period. [306363]
Maria Eagle: Information on this is not collected or collated by prisons. The information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost as it would need to be collated from 135 prisons. All prisons provide appropriate acts of worship for prisoners from the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Free Church/Methodist traditions each week, other than in exceptional circumstances. On the authority of the governor, prisoners may be excluded from attending worship on an individual basis for a period not exceeding one month, and renewable thereafter, on certain specified grounds relating to security, good order and control.
Probation
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the level of underspend by probation areas in Wales in 2009-10. [306503]
Maria Eagle: Probation trusts and areas in Wales are forecast to be on-budget for 2009-10.
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what mechanism exists for probation trusts and probation areas in Wales to be reimbursed for the cost to them of (a) changes in the number of staff they employ and (b) redundancy payments in the period to April 2010. [306504]
Maria Eagle: All probation areas/trusts in Wales have identified efficiency savings in their budgets. It is anticipated that any staff reorganisation or redundancies that may arise before April 2010 will be met from this money.
Probation Officers
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has for the harmonisation of the conditions of service of probation service staff in the event of the establishment of an all-Wales probation trust. [306475]
Maria Eagle: Job evaluation exercises previously carried out within probation should minimise the number of harmonisation issues. These issues would be dealt with if the trust application process is successful and once the trust becomes a legal body, as there is no power to do so before the trust is legally established. The harmonisation activities would be undertaken in a phased approach after 1 April 2010.
Probation: Finance
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how the additional £1.6 million funding awarded to the Probation Service in Wales in 2010-11 is to be allocated. [306505]
Maria Eagle: The Director of Offender Management in Wales (DOM) is responsible for allocating the additional funding. This will be used as part of the DOM's commissioning responsibility to deliver offender services in Wales.
Currently commissioning priorities are being considered and discussed with the probation service. These include increasing offender services around community resettlement, alternatives to short custodial sentences and increasing provision to support women offenders. The outcome of those discussions will help determine the range of offender services to be delivered through probation. Discussions have also included how the delivery of such additional services could provide jobs for trainee probation officers.
Road Traffic Act
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of road traffic cases which proceeded to trial did so under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act in each of the last five years. [305444]
Maria Eagle: The number of proceedings at magistrates courts for offences under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as a percentage of all motoring offences proceeded against at magistrates courts, England and Wales 2006 and 2007 (latest available) is shown in the following table.
Prior to 2006 data under section 172 were recorded within 'other miscellaneous motoring offences' and cannot be separately identified.
Data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.
Young Offenders
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many of those under the age of 18 years who were convicted of offences related to shoplifting have been (a) directed to take up training courses as part of their sentence and (b) exclusively directed to take up training courses in each year since 2004; [305324]
(2) how many of those under the age of 18 years old have been (a) directed to take up training courses as part of their sentence and (b) exclusively directed to take up training courses in each year since 2004. [305325]
Maria Eagle: Data are not available centrally on specific numbers of under-18s directed to do training as part of their sentence. Shoplifting is categorised as a separate offence and this and other sentencing data are published by the Ministry of Justice annually:
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