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Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
Alan Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on what date his Department ceased to collect data on the number of women who had given birth while serving a sentence of imprisonment. [318049]
Maria Eagle: The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) withdrew the mother and baby unit (MBU) database from service in April 2009, as over time the data collected and the database itself had become distorted.
The database's primary purpose was to collect information required to centrally manage and monitor demand for places in MBUs. Revised data requirements and a new reporting system have been introduced to fulfil this function.
The database was also used to centrally record a range of information in order to answer queries about wider maternity-related issues. This data continues to be recorded locally for operational purposes. Given the level of public and parliamentary interest in this field, further work is being undertaken to examine the feasibility of developing a new central collection system. This work will not be completed until later this year, but a significant amount of the data should be available from early summer. Every effort will be made to consolidate historical data as far as possible.
Property: Sales
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average sale price of a property previously purchased for more than £1 million was in each of the last three years. [325230]
Mr. Wills: Land Registry is able to provide information based on residential properties sold at full value(1) of more than £1 million for each of the last three years in England and Wales.
(1) Full value = residential property transactions where the full price has been paid. The figures exclude a number of transactions including right to buy sales at a discount, properties sold by way of a gift and properties sold under a compulsory purchase or court order.
| Average price of properties over £1 million | |
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many homes have been purchased for more than (a) £500,000 and (b) £1 million in each year since 1997. [325231]
Mr. Wills: Land Registry is able to provide information based on the total number of residential properties sold at full value(1) in England and Wales from 1997 to 2009, as follows:
(1) Full value = residential property transactions where the full price has been paid. The figures exclude a number of transactions including right to buy sales at a discount, properties sold by way of a gift and properties sold under a compulsory purchase or court order.
| Over £500,000 | Over £1 million | |
The numbers in the over £1 million column are also part of the total in the over £500,000 column.
Public Expenditure
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to the public purse was of (a) the Independent Commission on the Voting System, (b) the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords, (c) the production of the White Paper on The House of Lords-Completing the Reform and (d) the production of the White Paper on An Elected Second Chamber. [324494]
Mr. Wills: The Stationery Office has provided the following costings:
The publication costs of (a) the Report of Independent Commission on the Voting System was £3,001.00 for Cm 4090-1 and £972.00 for Cm 4090-11;
(b) the Report of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords was £31,090.9;
(c) the White Paper 'The House of Lords-Completing the Reform' (Cm 7027) was £12,353.00; and
(d) of the White Paper 'An Elected Second Chamber' (Cm 7438) was £20,389.57.
Information on the other costs is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Television: Licensing
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of offences related to failure to purchase a television licence in each year since 1997. [324382]
Claire Ward: The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for TV licence evasion in England and Wales 1997 to 2008 (latest available) can be viewed in the table.
Court data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010.
| Number of persons p roceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for television licence evasion( 1, 2) , England and Wales, 1997 to 2008( 3, 4) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000( 5) | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008( 6) | |
| (1) For 1997 to 2007 as well as television licence evasion, these data include proceedings for summary offences under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 to 1967. (2) For 2007 and 2008 these figures relate to the offence Television Licence evasion - Communications Act 2003. (3) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (4) 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 the courts and 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. (5) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates' courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. (6) Excludes data for Cardiff magistrates' court for April, July, and August 2008. Note: Wireless Telegraphy Act offences (mainly television licence evasion) prosecutions increased by 75 per cent from 1999 to 2000. These figures fluctuate from year to year depending on the level and manner of enforcement by the licensing authorities. The increase in prosecutions in 2000 was largely due to changes in visiting practices so that enforcement visits to households took place at times when TV was more likely to be watched. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice | ||||||||||||
Wills
Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he is taking to increase the number of people who make wills. [324939]
Bridget Prentice: There are no specific initiatives currently under way to increase the number of people who make wills. Nonetheless, we encourage people to do so by keeping the process relatively straightforward and inexpensive and by providing information about how it can be done on government websites, such as those of Her Majesty's Courts Service, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, and Directgov.
Young Offender Institutions
David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what funding his Department has allocated to the development of the new Young Offender Institution at Glen Parva; when he expects it to be fully operational; and if he will make a statement. [325133]
Maria Eagle: The funding currently allocated for the proposed 360 place young offender institution (YOI) at Glen Parva is approximately £80 million.
The YOI is currently planned for delivery in mid-2012. The operation of the establishment will be subject to a competition to start later this year, and decisions on the appropriate level of build up of young people will be made in conjunction with the selected operator.
Youth Custody
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the maximum population capacity of each (a) secure children's home, (b) secure training centre and (c) young offender institution was in each year since 2002. [323894]
Maria Eagle: The following tables provide the information, as at 1 April in each year since 2002: the maximum number of secure children home places provided under contract to the Youth Justice Board; the maximum capacity of each secure training centre; and the maximum number of places for young people under 18 at each young offender institution which accommodates young people under that age.
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