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Nick Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the proposed national scholarship programme on (a) universities which recruit higher than average numbers of disadvantaged students and (b) the propensity of universities to recruit disadvantaged students. [35733]

Mr Willetts: The National Scholarship Programme (NSP) will form part of a coherent package of help targeted on potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds. All universities that want to charge a higher graduate contribution than the £6,000 threshold will be obliged to participate in the NSP.

We have made it clear that those universities that charge the most should make the most significant contribution towards assisting students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access and succeed at university.

Details of the NSP are still being finalised. Criteria for the NSP are currently being developed through advice from an expert panel, which includes the National Union of Students, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Universities UK, Sutton Trust and others.

Amber Rudd: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of students who will receive assistance from the proposed National Scholarship Programme in each of the next four years; and what criteria he expects to apply to assess eligibility for the fund. [36141]

Mr Willetts: The National Scholarship Programme (NSP) will form part of a coherent package of help targeted on bright potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds. All universities that want to charge a higher graduate contribution than the £6,000 threshold will be obliged to participate in the NSP.

Details of the National Scholarship Programme are still being finalised. Criteria for the NSP are currently being developed through advice from an expert panel, which includes the National Union of Students, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Universities UK, Sutton Trust and others. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes), the Government's Advocate for Access to Higher Education, has been invited to join the group.

We want a wide range of people to have the opportunity to benefit from the programme. Likely groups to be supported include disabled students, part-time students, mature-aged students, those who have been eligible for the pupil premium at school, or have received free school meals or whose family income means that they will be eligible to receive student maintenance grants.

Government investment in the programme will reach £150 million a year by 2014/15. Options could include a first free year for disadvantaged students who were on free school meals or a foundation year to attract young talented people into the professions. Such measures could potentially help around 18,000 students in 2014/15. The number of students who can benefit from the new programme will depend on the final design which is currently being developed with advice from the expert panel.

Microfinance

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of microfinance projects in supporting (a) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and (b) SMEs led by women. [36235]

Mr Prisk: In June 2010 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published an action-orientated summary of the national evaluation of Community Development Finance Institutions (which includes microfinance) for the sector. This set out information on the effectiveness of microfinance projects in supporting SMEs. The report did not break down the outcomes for the projects by gender but support for women is mainstreamed within the CDFI sector.

Postgraduate Education: Regional Development Agencies

Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which regional development agencies have funded (a) wholly and (b) partially postgraduate courses in the last five years; what subject matter such courses have covered; what the duration of study was for each such course; and if he will make a statement. [34935]


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Mr Prisk: The following tables give the details, where available, of the postgraduate courses undertaken by members of RDA staff that have been funded, either wholly or partly, by the regional development agencies over the last five years.


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2005/06 2006/07
RDA Wholly funded Partially funded Courses Duration Wholly funded Partially funded Courses Duration

AWM

0

0

1

1

CIPFA

1 year

MSc Research Methods in Public Service (Part Funded)

2 years

EEDA

1

0

MBA

1 year

0

0

EMDA

1

0

Accountancy (ACCA)

3 years

2

0

Professional Diploma in Marketing

1 year

Certificate in UK Planning Law (3 modules)

1 year

LDA

NWDA

0

0

4

1

MSc Urban Regeneration and Management

2 years

MSc Urban and Rural Regeneration

2 years

MBA

3 years

PG Diploma in Surveying

2.5 years

MSc Information Systems (Part funded)

3 years

ONE

2

0

CIPS (Year 2)

2 years

7

1

ACCA Professional Qualification (2)

5 years

MA Regional Development

2 years

Certificate in Regeneration

0.5 years

MSC Audit (Internal/External) Management and Consultancy

1 year

Professional Diploma in Marketing

1 year

CIM

1 year

MA European Union Studies

2 years

Cultural and Heritage Tourism Development Scheme

2 years

CIMA (Partially Funded)

3 years

SEEDA(1)

0

0

0

0

SWRDA(2)

0

2

MSc Planning Practice and Research.

0

2

One module of MSc Regeneration and Renewal.

Module of MBA.

One module of MA in Urban Regeneration

YF(3)

MA Social and Public Policy

2 years

MA Regeneration and Environment

1 year

MBA - 2 people

3 years

MBA

2 years

MSc Transport Planning and Management

1 year

MSc Local and Regional Economic Development

3 years


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2007/08 2008/09
RDA Wholly funded Partially funded Courses Duration Wholly funded Partially funded Courses Duration

AWM

4

0

MSc Urban Regeneration Research and Policy

3 years

1

1

MA Regeneration

2 years

MSc Environmental Management for Business

2 years

MA Modern History (Part Funded)

2 years

Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management

3 years

BSc Psychology

3 years

EEDA

2

0

L7 Certificate in Leadership Coaching

1 year

1

1

Post Graduate Diploma in Local and Regional Regeneration (Part funded)

2 years

L7 Diploma in Leadership

1 year

Masters in Town Planning

2 years

EMDA

3

1

CIM Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing

1 year

6

0

CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing

1 year

CIPR Diploma (Public Relations)

1 year

CIM Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing

1 year

Postgraduate Certificate in Management

1 year

Postgraduate Diploma in HR (CIPD)

2 years

LLM Masters in European Law (Part Funded)

3 years

Postgraduate Certificate in Management (3 people)

18 months

LDA

NWDA

6

0

MSc Urban Regeneration and Management

2 years

3

0

MA Leadership in Sustainability

2 years

MSc Urban Regeneration and Development

2 years

MA Regeneration and Development

2 years

MSc Development Economics and Policy

2 years

MBA

3 years

MA Planning

2 years

MSc Commercial Property Development

2 years

PG Certificate Local and Regional Economic Development

1 year

ONE

2

0

Diploma in Management

3 years

5

0

MA Human Resource Management

2 years

Diploma in Marketing

1 year

MA Local and Regional Government

2 years

MA Human Resources

2 years

MA Regional and Local Development

2 years

IIA Certificate in Internal Audit and Business Risk

November 2008- to confirm

SEEDA(1)

1

1

MA Strategic Human Resources

1 year

0

1

MBA September 2008-June 10

MSC Spatial planning - September 2007-August 2009 (Part funded)

SWRDA(2)

0

2

One module of MSc Regeneration and Renewal.

0

5

Postgraduate Diploma in Regional Economic Development.

1 year

One module of MA in Urban Regeneration

Year 1 MBA modules for 2 people.

Year 2 of MA in Personnel Development.

Module of MSc in Sustainable Development

YF(3)

MA Urban Environment Design

2 years

MA in Human Resources Management

2 years

MBA

2 years

MA in Property appraisal and management

2 years

MSc Urban Regeneration

1 year

MSc Transport Planning and the Environment

2/3 years

PHD

2.5 years

MSc HRM

1 year



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2009/2010
RDA Wholly Funded Partially Funded Courses Duration

AWM

2

0

MSc Real Estate Management

2 years

MSc Spatial Planning

2 years

EEDA

1

1

Masters in Town Planning

2 years

Advanced Diploma in Internal Auditing (Part Funded)

2 years

EMDA

0

2

CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing (Part Funded)

1 year

Doctorate of Social Sciences (Evidence and evaluation) (Part Funded)

3 years

LDA

NWDA

0

0

ONE

7

3

Diploma in Human Resource Management

2 years

Post Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Development

1 year

CIMA

3 years (to complete February 2013)

MSc Development Management

1.5 years

Diploma in Destination Management

1 year

Diploma in Destination Management

1 year

Diploma in Destination Management

1 year

MSc Corporate Communication (Partially Funded)

2 years

LLB (Partially Funded)

4 years (to complete September 2013)

Diploma in Management Accounting (Partially Funded)

1 year

SEEDA(1)

0

0

SWRDA(2)

0

4

Year 2 MBA modules for 2 people.

MBA.

Year 3 of MA in Personnel Development.

YF(3)

MA Architecture and Urbanism

2 years

(1) The figures for SEEDA do not include full- or part- sponsorship by SEEDA of professional qualifications such as RICS, CIPD, CIPR, for which a first degree may not be essential. Such figures are not in any case readily available.
(2) It has not been possible to provide details of the duration of study as these courses are completed by staff in their own time, using distance and flexible learning arrangements.
(3) It has not been possible to identify % of costs (wholly/partially funded) in the time limit of the PQ.
Note:
Postgraduate courses pre-April 2007 are not recorded on our current HR management system, so data for these years may be incomplete. It would incur disproportionate cost to check records in our archives.

Student Loans Company

Mr Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of payments taken in error by the Student Loans Company in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [33420]

Mr Willetts: Statistics on the number of people being refunded repayments-regardless of whether these repayments came before or after borrowers have repaid their loans in full-are published in table 2(iii) of the Statistical First Release "Student Loans for Higher Education in England, Financial Year 2009-10". It is accessible on the Student Loans Company website at

In financial year 2009-10, 27,800 borrowers were refunded such repayments. This figure includes a number of over-repayments taken after borrowers repaid their loans in full which the Student Loans Company (SLC) is in the process of estimating. I propose to write to the hon. Member with this information once the statistics are ready for publication.

It is possible for borrowers to over-repay their student loans because of the loan collection process. After the end of each tax year, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) notifies the Student Loans Company (SLC) of loan deductions made by employers in the previous tax year. Due to this time lag, it is possible for people to over-repay. However, all overpayments are refunded with interest.

Since December 2009, in order to reduce the number of those who over-repay, borrowers nearing the end of their loan repayment term are notified by the SLC that they may opt out of the PAYE system, and complete their loan repayments by direct debit. Additionally, borrowers are advised to monitor their own repayments so they can calculate when they are likely to repay their loan in full.

Student Numbers

Mr Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many students normally resident in England were enrolled on full-time (a) undergraduate degrees, (b) vocational sub-degrees and (c) foundation degrees on the most recent date for which figures are available; [35695]

(2) how many students aged between 18 and 24 were enrolled on full-time (a) undergraduate degrees, (b) vocational sub-degrees and (c) foundation degrees on the most recent date for which figures are available. [35696]

Mr Willetts: The numbers of English-domiciled full-time undergraduate enrolments at UK higher education institutions are shown by age group and level of study in Table 1. Figures are taken from the Higher Education
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Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record and are provided for the 2009/10 academic year. Figures for the 2010/11 academic year will become available from HESA in January 2012.

The numbers of English-domiciled full-time undergraduate enrolments at English further education colleges are shown by age group and level of study in Table 2. Figures are taken from the Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learning Record and are provided for the 2008/09 academic year. Figures for the 2009/10 academic year will become available later this year.

Table 1: Full-time English-domiciled undergraduate enrolments by age group and level of study UK higher education institutions, academic year 2009/10
Age group
Level of study Under 18 18-24 25 and over Total

First Degree

820

767,260

90,610

858,695

Foundation Degree

160

25,810

14,265

40,230

Other Undergraduate(1)

320

33,935

26,780

61,035

(1) Includes students enrolled on Higher National Diplomas (HNDs), Higher National Certificates (HNCs), Diplomas and Certificates of higher education, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) at undergraduate level and other sub-degree courses.
Note:
Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded up or down to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.
Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record

Table 2: Full-time English-domiciled undergraduate enrolments by age group and level of study English further education colleges, academic year 2008/09
Age group
Level of study Under 18 18-24 25 and over Total

First Degree

0

3,645

2,330

5,980

Foundation Degree

25

5,225

2,040

7,290

Other Undergraduate(1)

275

5,095

4,090

9,460

(1) Includes students enrolled on Higher National Diplomas (HNDs), Higher National Certificates (HNCs), Diplomas and Certificates of higher education and other sub-degree courses.
Note:
Figures have been rounded up or down to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.
Source:
Skills Funding Agency Individualised Learning Record (L05)

Temporary Employment :Career Progression

Mr Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will bring forward proposals to improve career progression for agency workers; and if he will make a statement. [35597]

Mr Davey: The Government recognise the importance of the agency sector in the UK labour market and will continue to work with employers to raise awareness of the public skills system and to invest in training agency workers. Agency workers are currently eligible for Government funding for skills training if they have a contract of employment with the employment agency and are working for an employer client of that employment agency. The Government do not propose to alter this
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approach to training agency workers when the new workplace training provision is introduced in the next academic year.

As part of the UK's implementation of the agency workers directive, the Government will continue to look for opportunities to improve agency workers access to training to enhance their career development and employability.

Justice

Courts: Closures

Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent on improvements to each court identified for closure under his recent proposals in respect of the (a) building, (b) interior and (c) facilities in the last 10 years. [35554]

Mr Djanogly: HMCS was created in April 2005 and prior to this date, magistrates courts were the responsibility of independent Magistrates Courts Committees and the relevant local authorities were responsible for works, receiving an 80% capital grant from the former Department for Constitutional Affairs. Information on improvement works before 2005 is therefore not available to the Ministry of Justice.

Post-2005, for magistrates and county courts, due to the large amount of manual searching of records and data collation required, it would incur disproportionate costs to answer this question.

Departmental Procurement

Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what single tender contracts his Department has awarded since his appointment; and what the monetary value is of each contract above the EU public procurement threshold. [36190]

Mr Djanogly: The Ministry of Justice has issued a total of 51 single tender contracts from May 2010 to the present date. Of these 51 single tender contracts two have been above the EU public procurement threshold. These are as follows:

Firearms: Convictions

Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were convicted of offences relating to firearms in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010. [36066]

Mr Blunt: The number of persons found guilty at all courts of firearms offences, England and Wales, 2008 and 2009 (latest available) can be viewed in the following table.

Court proceedings data for 2010 are planned for publication in the spring.


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Number of persons found guilty at all courts for firearms offences( 1) , England and Wales, 2008 and 2009( 2,3)

Number

2008(4)

2,050

2009

1,850

(1) Includes the following: possession of firearms, firearm certificate related offences, and miscellaneous firearms offences.
(2) 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.
(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 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.
(4) Excludes data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July, and August 2008.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice

Judicial Diversity Taskforce

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he expects the Judicial Diversity Taskforce to report its findings; and if he will make a statement. [35903]

Mr Kenneth Clarke: The Judicial Diversity Taskforce, which is overseeing the delivery of the recommendations arising from the report of the Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity, will be meeting in early spring to discuss and review progress on improving the diversity of the judiciary.

It will be for the Taskforce to decide how and when to report its findings.

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent representations he has received on diversity in the Judiciary. [35904]

Mr Kenneth Clarke: My noble Friend, Lord McNally, who represents the Ministry of Justice on the Judicial Diversity Taskforce, and I, have met and corresponded with a range of people about judicial diversity including: the former Chair of the Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity, Baroness Neuberger; the Lord Chief Justice and other members of the senior judiciary; the former Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission; representatives of the legal profession; and academics.

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community on judicial diversity. [35905]

Mr Kenneth Clarke: I have not received any representations from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community on the issue of judicial diversity.

However, I know that members of the Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity met with representatives from both Stonewall and Interlaw in developing their final report.

Ministry of Justice officials have also met with representatives from both Stonewall and Interlaw to discuss the report and its implementation. Representatives
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from Interlaw and Stonewall have presented to the Judicial Diversity Forum, led by the Judicial Appointments Commission, on which the Ministry of Justice is represented.

Legal Services Commission

Mr Buckland: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding the Legal Services Commission provided from the Legal Aid budget for advice and representation in private family law cases involving (a) ancillary relief disputes and (b) children and family disputes where domestic violence (i) was and (ii) was not present in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. [35713]

Mr Djanogly: It is not possible for the legal Services Commission to extract the information requested in the time available. I will write to the hon. Member when this is available and place a copy of the letter in the Libraries of the House.

Mr Buckland: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding the Legal Services Commission provided from the Legal Aid budget for legal help and representation in debt cases where the client's home (a) was and (b) was not at immediate risk in 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. [35714]

Mr Djanogly: The following table shows the net cash expenditure on debt cases in 2008-09 for Legal Help and representation. The Legal Services Commission is unable to provide a breakdown of expenditure on debt cases for legal help into categories where the client's home is at risk and where it is not.

£ million

Representation Legal help

Home at risk

0.06

n/a

Home not at risk

1.19

n/a

Total

1.26

25.62


National Offender Management Service

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will publish each item of (a) guidance and (b) correspondence from (i) his Department and (ii) the National Offender Management Service to (A) prison governors and (B) others on the release of prisoners under home detention curfew since January 2010. [36212]

Mr Blunt: Guidance to prison governors on the operation of the home detention curfew (HDC) scheme is published on the Prison Service website and is contained in Prison Service Order (PSO) 6700. This PSO was issued in 2000 and has since been amended by a number of prison service instructions (PSIs), also published on the website. The PSO and PSIs may be accessed via:

Since January 2010 three PSIs have been published that deal with HDC: numbers 34, 39 and 55. There has been no general correspondence with governors about
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HDC during this period and neither this Department nor the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) routinely publishes correspondence relating to private individuals.

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will publish each item of (a) guidance and (b) correspondence from (i) his Department and (ii) the National Offender Management Service to (A) magistrates' courts and (B) Crown courts on the sentencing of convicted criminals since January 2010. [36213]

Mr Blunt: There has been no such guidance or correspondence issuing from the Department to the courts on sentencing. Sentencing guidelines are issued by the Sentencing Council and the Court of Appeal.

Prison Accommodation

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the operational capacity is of (a) the prison estate and (b) each prison in the prison estate; [36260]


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(2) what the certified normal accommodation figures are for (a) the prison estate and (b) each prison in the prison estate; [36261]

(3) how many prisoners are accommodated in multiple-occupancy cells in each prison. [36264]

Mr Blunt: The operational capacity and certified normal accommodation of (a) the prison estate and (b) each prison in the prison estate is set out in the following table. This information is published monthly on the HMPS website via the following website.

Information held centrally on prison occupancy covers all but 1,900 prisoners therefore it is not possible to provide the number of prisoners accommodated in multiple-occupancy cells for each prison. It is however possible from the data available to determine the approximate number of prisoners in the prison estate who are sharing accommodation. As at 31 December 2010 around 33,000 prisoners (39% of the prison population) were sharing accommodation with other prisoners, be it crowded (e.g. two prisoners held in a cell designed for one) or not (e.g. two prisoners held in a cell designed for two).


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Monthly Bulletin-December 2010 (report date 31 December 2010)
Prison Name Baseline CNA In Use CNA Operational Capacity Population( 1) % Pop to In Use CNA % Accommodation Available

Acklington

946

946

946

864

91

100

Altcourse

794

794

1,324

1,148

145

100

Ashfield

407

407

360

298

73

100

Ashwell

599

184

214

212

115

31

Askham Grange

150

126

128

115

91

84

Aylesbury

437

421

444

407

97

96

Bedford

322

321

506

441

137

100

Belmarsh

800

800

933

779

97

100

Birmingham

1,109

1,088

1,450

1,420

131

98

Blantyre House

122

122

122

122

100

100

Blundeston

481

409

454

453

111

85

Brinsford

545

545

577

489

90

100

Bristol

424

420

606

570

136

99

Brixton

530

530

798

696

131

100

Bronzefield

527

527

527

449

85

100

Buckley Hall

350

350

385

377

108

100

Bullingdon

879

879

1.114

1,049

119

100

Bullwood Hall

220

220

228

228

104

100

Bure

503

503

523

519

103

100

Canterbury

195

195

314

289

148

100

Cardiff

554

554

824

822

148

100

Castington

407

407

409

229

56

100

Channings Wood

698

698

731

706

101

100

Chelmsford

554

554

695

681

123

100

Coldingley

494

494

513

511

103

100

Cookham Wood

143

143

143

104

73

100

Dartmoor

635

493

514

492

100

78

Deerbolt

513

513

513

473

92

100

Doncaster

713

713

1,145

1,065

149

100

Dorchester

146

146

260

212

145

100

Dovegate

1,064

1,060

1,180

1,152

109

100

Dover

316

316

316

283

90

100

Downview

359

291

291

270

93

81

Drake Hall

315

315

315

271

86

100

Durham

606

606

1,014

888

147

100

East Sutton Park

98

98

100

86

88

100

Eastwood Park

333

333

363

285

86

100

Edmunds Hill

389

379

379

375

99

97

Elmley (Sheppey Cluster)

943

925

1,234

1,187

128

98

Erlestoke

470

370

370

360

97

79

Everthorpe

603

603

689

660

109

100

Exeter

322

316

545

495

157

98

Featherstone

671

642

655

653

102

96

Feltham

762

762

762

636

83

100

Ford

557

557

557

523

94

100

Forest Bank

1,064

1,064

1,424

1,308

123

100

Foston Hall

283

283

298

225

80

100

Frankland

859

859

859

840

98

100

Full Sutton

604

596

608

597

100

99

Garth

812

812

847

822

101

100

Gartree

677

677

677

678

100

100

Glen Parva

652

652

808

706

108

100

Gloucester

225

225

321

272

121

100

Grendon/Spring Hill

587

573

573

523

91

98

Guys Marsh

520

452

509

489

108

87

Haslar

160

124

134

117

94

78

Haverigg

622

622

644

622

100

100

Hewell

1,173

1,173

1,431

1,293

110

100

High Down

999

999

1,103

1,032

103

100

Highpoint

920

920

944

914

99

100

Hindley

506

440

440

284

65

87

Hollesley Bay

365

365

365

354

97

100

Holloway

540

531

531

450

85

98

Holme House

1,034

1,034

1.212

942

91

100

Hull

723

723

1,044

944

131

100

Huntercombe

366

275

275

197

72

75

Isis

252

252

252

198

79

100

Isle of Wight(3)

1,570

1,569

1,705

1,668

106

100

Kennet

175

175

342

333

190

100

Kingston

199

199

199

198

99

100

Kirkham

592

592

592

585

99

100

Kirklevington Grange

283

283

283

267

94

100

Lancaster

161

161

243

237

147

100

Lancaster Farms

480

480

530

452

94

100

Latchmere House

207

207

207

192

93

100

Leeds

829

776

1,088

1,041

134

94

Leicester

210

210

392

330

157

100

Lewes

623

495

507

457

92

79

Leyhill

532

530

530

499

94

100

Lincoln

431

427

729

545

128

99

Lindholme

1,054

1.038

1.118

1,045

101

98

Littlehey

1,143

1,143

1,206

1,164

102

100

Liverpool

1,188

1,157

1,423

1,151

99

97

Long Lartin

629

622

622

614

99

99

Low Newton

314

259

282

235

91

82

Lowdham Grange

900

900

930

936

104

100

Maidstone

565

565

600

592

105

100

Manchester

965

949

1,268

1,165

123

98

Moorland/Moorland Open

1,023

713

746

656

92

70

Morton Hall

392

392

392

272

69

100

Mount

747

747

768

766

103

100

New Hall

393

392

446

358

91

100

North Sea Camp

318

318

318

311

98

100

Northallerton

147

142

242

172

121

97

Norwich

625

625

767

706

113

100

Nottingham

723

723

1,060

962

133

100

Onley

710

710

710

678

95

100

Parc

1,170

946

1,258

1,213

128

81

Pentonville

914

909

1,272

1,156

127

99

Peterborough

840

840

1,008

863

103

100

Portland

607

463

483

428

92

76

Preston

453

453

840

752

166

100

Ranby

970

892

1,098

1,071

120

92

Reading

190

190

293

217

114

100

Risley

1,050

1,050

1,095

1,085

103

100

Rochester

756

649

649

615

95

86

Rye Hill

600

600

625

613

102

100

Send

282

282

282

271

96

100

Shepton Mallet

165

165

189

187

113

100

Shrewsbury

184

184

340

315

171

100

Stafford

741

725

741

736

102

98

Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster)

464

464

464

442

95

100

Stocken

779

779

842

824

106

100

Stoke Heath

634

634

750

505

80

100

Styal

462

451

460

404

90

98

Sudbury

581

581

581

565

97

100

Swaleside (Sheppey Cluster)

1,112

1,112

1,112

1,101

99

100

Swansea

248

240

428

410

171

97

Swinfen Hall

604

604

654

645

107

100

Thorn Cross

322

322

322

277

86

100

Usk/Prescoed

335

335

449

434

130

100

Verne

572

571

606

598

105

100

Wakefield

749

748

750

740

99

100

Wandsworth

1,107

1,107

1,665

1,573

142

100

Warren Hill

222

128

128

117

91

58

Wayland

957

957

1,017

1,000

104

100

Wealstun

810

810

832

803

99

100

Wellingborough

638

514

522

505

98

81

Werrington

160

160

160

102

64

100

Wetherby

408

384

384

312

81

94

Whatton

779

776

841

835

108

100

Whitemoor

473

452

452

448

99

96

Winchester

499

499

706

642

129

100

Wolds

320

320

395

382

119

100

Woodhill

661

656

819

767

117

99

Wormwood Scrubs

1,176

1,176

1,281

1,203

102

100

Wymott

1,113

1,113

1,176

1,161

104

100

Total baseline CNA = 80,183
Total In Use CNA = 77,466
Total Useable Operational Capacity(2) = 87,983
Total Population = 83,055
% Population to In Use CNA = 107%
Total % Accommodation Available = 97%
Total Out of Use Accommodation = 2,717
(1) The prison unlock figure may be lower than the 'Population', as the 'Population' includes prisoners on authorised absence.
(2) No places are currently activated under Operation Safeguard.
(3) The sites at Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst constitute HM Prison Isle of Wight.
Definitions of Accommodation Terms:
Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA): Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA), or uncrowded capacity, is the Prison Service's own measure of accommodation. CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the service aspires to provide all prisoners.
Baseline CNA: Baseline CNA is the sum total of all certified accommodation in an establishment except, normally:
Cells in punishment or segregation units.
Healthcare cells or rooms in training prisons and YOIs that are not routinely used to accommodate long stay patients.
In-Use CNA: In-use CNA is baseline CNA less those places not available for immediate use, for example: damaged cells, cells affected by building works.
Operational Capacity: The operational capacity of a prison is the total number of prisoners that an establishment can hold taking into account control, security and the proper operation of the planned regime. It is determined by Directors of Offender Management on the basis of operational judgement and experience.
Useable Operational Capacity: Useable Operational Capacity of the estate is the sum of all establishments' operational capacity less 2000 places. This is known as the operating margin and reflects the constraints imposed by the need to provide separate accommodation for different classes of prisoner i.e. by sex, age, security category, conviction status, single cell risk assessment and also due to geographical distribution.
Establishments Exceeding their Operational Capacity: Governing governors and Controllers and Directors of contracted out prisons must ensure that the approved operational capacity is not normally exceeded other than on an exceptional basis to accommodate pressing operational need.
Source:
Report produced by Population Strategy
The CNA and Operational Capacity figures are taken from the latest signed cell certificates held by PS.
The report is compiled from data on the last working Friday in December.

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