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Offenders: Social Services

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners aged between 18 and 21 were referred to adult social services under section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 by the (a) Prison Service and (b) Probation Service in the last 12 months. [313800]

Maria Eagle: Section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 sets out local authorities' obligations in relation to assessments of needs for community care services.

Information on the numbers of referrals to adult social services by the Prison Service and the national probation service is not held centrally. Since 2006, NHS primary care trusts have held responsibility for commissioning health services for their offender population.

Police Cautions: North East

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) police cautions and (b) conditional cautions were issued for each category of offence in each police force area in the North East region in each year since 2005. [313896]

Claire Ward: The number of offenders receiving a caution in the north-east Government office region (GOR) by force and offence group, 2005-08 (latest available) is shown in the following table. Currently, data on simple or conditional cautions are not published separately although the Crown Prosecution Service is planning to publish conditional cautioning data on a monthly basis from February 2010.

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Number of offenders cautioned( 1, 2) in the north-east Government office region (GOR), by for ce, by offence group, 2005- 08( 3)
Force/offence group	2005	2006	2007	2008
Durham
Violence against the person	284	423	445	360
Sexual offences	18	16	15	20
Burglary	71	103	97	67
Robbery	1	5	2	-
Theft and handling stolen goods	626	727	713	677
Fraud and forgery	38	58	54	75
Criminal damage	15	44	80	108
Drug offences	302	295	298	359
Other indictable offences	43	81	76	81
Summary offences (excluding motoring)	1,739	2,578	2,245	2,046
Total	3,137	4,330	4,025	3,793
Northumbria
Violence against the person	1,561	1,754	1,460	1,328
Sexual offences	79	81	81	65
Burglary	164	228	214	186
Robbery	1	3	-	2
Theft and handling stolen goods	3,210	3,444	3,687	3,316
Fraud and forgery	377	507	494	499
Criminal damage	91	125	102	123
Drug offences	2,014	1,772	1,583	1,347
Other indictable offences	343	428	406	430
Summary offences (excluding motoring)	8,788	8,047	7,870	7,343
Total	16,628	16,389	15,897	14,639
Cleveland
Violence against the person	388	488	491	398
Sexual offences	19	29	19	24
Burglary	105	168	148	129
Robbery	3	11	4	6
Theft and handling stolen goods	832	1,129	1,070	1,212
Fraud and forgery	83	107	110	115
Criminal damage	26	41	30	27
Drug offences	344	446	589	747
Other indictable offences	80	93	84	111
Summary offences (excluding motoring)	1,737	3,160	2,852	2,835
Total	3,617	5,672	5,397	5,604
(1 )The cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence. (2) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. (3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice.

Prison Sentences

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners have been held under an indeterminate sentence for public protection in each year since their inception. [313786]

Maria Eagle: The following table gives figures for the numbers of prisoners in all prison establishments in
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England and Wales serving indeterminate sentences for public protection in each year since 2005 when they first came into effect:

Prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection 2005-09( 1 ) in England and Wales as at 30 June each year
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	24	1,079	2,859	4,461	5,205
Males	24	1,045	2,776	4,333	5,074
Females	0	34	83	128	131
(1) 2009 figures are estimated Note: Indeterminate sentences for public protection came into effect on 5 April 2005

These figures up to June 2008 can be found in the published Offender Management Caseload Statistics, table 7.17, a copy of which can be found in the House of Commons Library and which can also be found at the following website:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonandprobation.htm

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.

Prison Service: Contractors

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what private contractors his Department employs to run work in prison schemes. [313862]

Maria Eagle: There are a number of employer partnerships with private sector companies that provide employment and training activities within prisons with some offering employment on release. Some of these operate at an individual prison level and unless they wish to expand their work to other prisons details would not necessarily be kept centrally. Those private sector organisations involved in work for prisoners include Cisco Systems, DHL, Timpson's, Travis Perkins, Trackworks, Pertemps People Group, A4e Ltd., SERCO, and Speedy Hire.

In addition, a number of registered charities and public bodies help to provide education and training in prisons and many others provide work for prisoners in the form of contract services. There are also a number of companies that provide paid employment for selected low risk prisoners in the community. There is also a Corporate alliance network of over 100 employers committed to supporting the offender employment agenda in training and recruiting (ex) offenders.

The Learning and Skills Council has let contracts to A4e Ltd., CfBT, JHP Group, Kensington and Chelsea college, Lincoln college, the Manchester college, Milton Keynes college, Norton Radstock college, Prospects, Strode college, Tribal and Working Links to deliver education, skills training and careers information and advice services in public sector prisons and young offender institutions across England.

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