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1,939 have completed one accredited Offending Behaviour programme; and
1,898 have completed two or more accredited Offending Behaviour programmes.
The NOMS IPP database will not able to report on the ethnicity of IPP prisoners until June 2010. The age profile of the 5,828 IPPs in custody on 19 January 2010 is:
| IPPs | |
The gender profile of IPPs is: male 5,673 and female 155.
Prisoners Release
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons who received indeterminate sentences for public protection and who have passed their minimum tariff date have been released in each month since the sentence was introduced; and how many people released from such sentences have subsequently been recalled in each such year. [311887]
Maria Eagle: As of 15 January 2010, the number of offenders who received indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for public protection (IPP), who have passed their minimum tariff date and who have been released in each month since the sentence was introduced is shown in the following table.
There is nothing automatic about release on tariff expiry. After an offender sentenced to an IPP has completed his tariff, it is for the independent Parole Board to determine whether his risk of harm is such that he may be safely managed in the community. Of those prisoners who have been released, two were recalled to custody in 2007, six in 2008 and 15 in 2009.
| Number of IPP prisoners past tariff who were released each month since 2005 | |
| Month of release | Number released |
Prisons: Budgets
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what direction he has given to each prison governor on budgets for the financial year 2009-10. [313572]
Maria Eagle: Letters of delegated authority were issued in June 2009 to each director of offender management from the chief operating officer of the National Offender Management Service. The directors of offender management then issued letters of delegated authority to prison governors in their region. Each prison governor is required to operate within the limits confirmed in the written delegations.
Probation Service: Disabled
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff of the Probation Service in England and Wales who have been diagnosed with a disability are currently subject to (a) informal and (b) formal capability proceedings. [308123]
Maria Eagle: Disability is self-declared rather than diagnosed. Information on informal capability proceedings is not collated centrally as this is a local probation area management issue.
However our new Probation HR Data Warehouse does include information on formal capability proceedings and the outcomes of these. This information is currently subject to validation and will be available in early 2010.
Prosecutions
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions there have been which resulted in a conviction in each of the last six months. [312457]
The Solicitor-General: I have been asked to reply.
Table 1 shows the number of defendants prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service whose case was completed in each of the six months ending December 2009. Case outcomes are broken down into convictions and unsuccessful outcomes, the latter figure comprising all outcomes other than a conviction, and are also expressed as a proportion of completed cases.
Table 2 shows figures for England and Wales as a whole, and for CPS North Yorkshire.
| Crown Prosecution Service completed prosecutions, July to December 2009 | |||||
| (1) CPS national | |||||
| Convictions | Unsuccessful | ||||
| 2009 | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total |
| (2) CPS North Yorkshire | |||||
| Convictions | Unsuccessful | ||||
| 2009 | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total |
Public Sector: Disclosure of Information
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many requests made to the Office of Public Sector Information's Public Sector Information Unlocking Service beta have been (a) accepted and (b) refused. [312166]
Mr. Wills: The Unlocking Service is a service to gather and assess requests for the re-use of public sector information from the Office of Public Sector Information, part of the National Archives.
57 primary requests have been accepted. Users can add comments in support of existing requests joining in to the dialogue, rather than create a new request for the same information.
A further 10 requests have been rejected. This is because they are outside the defined scope of the Unlocking Service, not relating to the re-use of public sector information or Government data.
Royal Family: Wills
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice at whose request the process for the creation of a new practice for the sealing of royal wills following the death of Princess Margaret was initiated. [312449]
Bridget Prentice: No process has been initiated for the creation of a new practice for sealing royal wills following the death of the late Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. The President of Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, has, however, initiated a review of the court practice governing non-contentious probate business in general. The review will be wide-ranging and will include consideration of the current rules and practice relating to the disclosure and publication of wills.
Working Group on Libel Law Review
Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the membership is of his working group on libel law review; [313563]
(2) what the terms of reference are of his working group on libel law review; [313564]
(3) what the earliest date by which the working group on libel law review will have completed its work; and when he expects to receive the report of that working group. [313565]
Bridget Prentice: The terms of reference of the working group on libel law are:
"to consider whether the law of libel, including the law relating to "libel tourism", in England and Wales needs reform, and if so to make recommendations as to solutions".
The membership of the group will be announced shortly. The working group has been requested to make recommendations by mid-March.
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