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NOMS has in place a drug treatment framework, based on the National Treatment Agency's Models of Care, to address the needs of drug misusing prisoners. The interventions available are designed to meet the needs of low, moderate and severe drug misusers-irrespective of age, gender or ethnicity.
Considerable improvements have been made in clinical drug treatment in prisons, in particular through the introduction of the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS)-a treatment system, based on evidence, providing improved clinical management including prescribing and psychosocial interventions via multidisciplinary teams, particularly in the first 28 days of prison and also links with care and treatment services in the community.
This Government believe that more can be done to cut drug related reoffending by overhauling the system of rehabilitation. We are considering how sentencing and treatment for drug use can help offenders to come off drugs once and for all. This includes the exploration of alternative secure treatment-based accommodation.
Prisons: Education
John Howell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) educational and (b) vocational courses were not completed as a result of inter-prison moves in the latest period for which figures are available. [3236]
Mr Blunt: Data relating to the number of prisoners whose learning has been interrupted or stopped due to inter prison moves are not held centrally and it would not be possible to provide an answer without incurring a disproportionate cost.
The National Offender Management Service work with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as well as the Skills Funding Agency to minimise the effect of inter-prison moves on educational attainment. Since August 2009 a core curriculum has been introduced in all prisons to minimise the potential affect of such moves. In addition there is a requirement to make use of a new data exchange system to ensure information on prisoners' educational aims and achievements are available to the receiving prison on transfer.
Prisons: Religion
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information his Department holds on the number of people who have converted to (a) Islam, (b) Christianity, (c) Buddhism, (d) Hinduism, (e) Judaism and (f) Sikhism whilst in prison in the last five years. [3093]
Mr Blunt: The data held centrally, as recorded on the prison IT system, only include information on prisoners' current declared religion, not any previously declared religion. Therefore, it is not possible to identify how many prisoners have changed their religion while in prison.
Rape
Mr Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) arrests, (b) trials and (c) convictions for rape there were in (i) Hartlepool constituency, (ii) the North East and (iii) England in each of the last 10 years. [3442]
Mr Blunt: The number of defendants proceeded against for rape (including attempted rape) and found guilty at all courts in the North East Government office region (GOR) and England 1999 to 2008 (latest available) is shown in the table.
Court proceedings data are not available at parliamentary constituency level. Data are given in the table for Cleveland police force area in which the Hartlepool constituency is located.
Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned for publication in October 2010.
The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally. The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and sexual offences. From these centrally reported data it is not possible to identify specific offences from within the main offence groups.
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for rape( 1, 2) , North East Government office region (GOR), England , 1999 to 2008( 3, 4) | ||||||||
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |||||
| Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | |
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | ||||
| Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | |
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||||
| Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | Proceeded against | Found guilty | |
| (1) Includes: Rape and attempted rape of a female or male. (2) Includes: Conspiracies, charges of participation in offences as accessories after the fact and charges of participation in offences by impeding the apprehension or prosecution of the offender. (3) The statistics 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 the principal offence 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 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. | ||||||
Rape: Cheshire
Stephen Mosley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of contested prosecutions for rape in Cheshire police force area resulted in a conviction in each of the last five years. [3084]
Mr Blunt: The proportion of defendants tried at the Crown Court in the Chester police force area for rape (including attempted), who pleaded not guilty and who were found guilty, from 2004 to 2008 (latest available) is given in the following table.
Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned for publication in October 2010.
| Number of defendants tried at the Crown Court for rape( 1,2) who pleaded not guilty, who were found guilty of rape, Cheshire police force area 2004 to 2008( 3,4) | |||||
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| (1) Includes: Rape and attempted rape of a female or male. (2) Includes: Conspiracies, charges of participation in offences as accessories after the fact and charges of participation in offences by impeding the apprehension or prosecution of the offender. (3) The figures given in the table on court proceedings 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) Proportion of defendants tried who pleaded not guilty at the Crown Court who were found guilty. Note: As can be seen in the table, the conviction rate is based on data totals of less than 100. Conviction rates at this level can be easily affected, either up or down, by relatively minor changes in the base data used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice | |||||
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