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Acklington/ Castington

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Altcourse

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Ashfield

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Ashwell

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Askham Grange

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Aylesbury

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Bedford

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Belmarsh

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Birmingham

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Blantyre House

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Blundeston

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Brinsford

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Bristol

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Brixton

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Bronzefield

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Buckley Hall

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Bullingdon

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Bullwood Hall

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Bure

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Canterbury

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Cardiff

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Channings Wood

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Chelmsford

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Coldingley

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Cookham Wood

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Dartmoor

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Deerbolt

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Doncaster

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Dorchester

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Dovegate

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Downview

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Drake Hall

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Durham

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East Sutton Park

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Eastwood Park

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Erlestoke

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Everthorpe

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Exeter

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Featherstone

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Feltham

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Ford

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Forest Bank

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Foston Hall

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Frankland

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Full Sutton

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Garth

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Gartree

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Glen Parva

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Gloucester

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Grendon/Spring Hill

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Guys Marsh

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Hatfield

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Haverigg

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Hewell

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High Down

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Highpoint (North and South)

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Hindley

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Hollesley Bay

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Holloway

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Holme House

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Hull

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Huntercombe

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Isis

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Isle of Wight

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Kennet

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Kingston

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Kirkham

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Kirklevington Grange

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Lancaster

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Lancaster Farms

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Latchmere House

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Leeds

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Leicester

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Lewes

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Leyhill

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Lincoln

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Lindholme

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Littlehey

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Liverpool

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Long Lartin

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Low Newton

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Lowdham Grange

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Maidstone

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Manchester

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Moorland

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Morton Hall

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Mount

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New Hall

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Norwich

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Pentonville

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Peterborough (Male and Female)

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Portland

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Ranby

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Reading

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Rochester

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Rye Hill

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Sheppey

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Shepton Mallet

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Stocken

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Sudbury

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Swansea

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Thorn Cross

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Verne

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Wakefield

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Wandsworth

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Wayland

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Wellingborough

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Werrington

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Wetherby

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Whatton

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Winchester

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Wolds

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Prisoners: Work Experience

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which private sector companies are involved in providing work opportunities for prisoners in each prison. [73768]

Mr Blunt: The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collect information on all private sector companies involved in providing work opportunities for prisoners as arrangements and partnerships can be established locally or nationally. There are many examples of successful partnerships in this area—for example employers recruiting

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offenders directly from prison, running a prison workshop, providing work placements, providing work for prisoners in prisons or helping shape policy and practice.

A list of contract services customers(1), many of whom are private sector, is available on the Justice website via the following link:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmps/prison-industries.htm(2)

A number of other organisations from the private sector work in partnership with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to provide prison workshops offering training to prisoners and the chance of employment on release. These include:

Organisation Number of establishment(s) they are operating in

Cisco Systems

32

DHL/Booker

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National Grid

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Timpson's

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There are many examples of successful partnerships across NOMS; whether employers are recruiting offenders directly from prison, running a prison workshop, providing work placements or helping shape policy and practice.

(1)Where organisations use prison facilities and prisoner labour to carry out services or manufacture/assemble goods under contract.

(2) Refer to the document at the bottom of the web page.

(3) Across England and extending into Scotland and includes adult and female offenders.

Prisoners: Working Hours

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the resources required to support the policy of prisoners working a 40-hour week. [73780]

Mr Blunt: We are continuing to develop a framework that will enable us to roll out our approach to working prisons and longer working weeks more widely across the prison estate.

We want to see many more prisoners working, so that more work is delivered at no cost to the taxpayer and can contribute to victims' services.

We will work to achieve this in a way which is economically viable and self-sustaining, including engaging

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with the private sector on how together we can expand prison work in a cost-effective way.

Prisons: Private Sector

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether prisons operated by the private sector are covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2000. [73822]

Mr Blunt: Prisons operated by the private sector do not fall within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Information held by the Ministry of Justice relating to private sector prisons can be requested from the Department under the FOIA.

Protection from Harassment Act 1997

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people proceeded against under Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 where a crime was recorded were (a) subsequently not proceeded with, (b) found guilty and (c) found not guilty in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11; [73437]

(2) how many people proceeded against under Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 where a crime was recorded were (a) acquitted, (b) given a custodial sentence, (c) given a community sentence, (d) given a fine and (e) given a conditional or absolute discharge in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11. [73438]

Mr Blunt: The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, acquitted, found guilty and sentenced at all courts, by result, for offences under Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in England and Wales for the financial year 2009-10 and calendar year 2010 (latest available) can be viewed in the table.

Police recorded crime statistics come within the remit of The Home Office. Offences recorded under Section 2 of the Protection of Harassment Act 1997 are included within their offence classification of ‘Harassment' and cannot be separately identified from other offences recorded within that classification. It is therefore not possible to identify those Section 2 offences which are recorded and subsequently not proceeded with.

Court proceedings data for 2011 are planned for publication in the spring of 2012.

Number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, acquitted, found guilty and sentenced at all courts, by result, for offences under Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (1) , England and Wales, 2009-10 and 2010 (2,3)
Statute 2009-10 2010

Section 2 Protection from Harassment Act 1997

   

Proceeded against

5,609

6,108

Acquitted(4)

257

270

Found guilty

4,458

4,740
     

Sentenced(5)

4,481

4,769

Of which:

   

Absolute discharge

11

11

Conditional discharge

682

735

Fine

511

569

Community sentence

1,947

2,118

Immediate custody

544

547

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Other sentences(6)

786

789
(1) Includes the following corresponding offences: Offence of harassment Racially aggravated offence of harassment Religiously aggravated offence of harassment Racially or religiously aggravated offence of harassment (2) 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. (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) Acquitted includes: Discharged and Dismissed at magistrates courts and Acquitted at the Crown Court. (5) The found guilty and sentenced columns may be lower than those proceeded against as, excluding those acquitted, it may be the case that a defendant found guilty, and committed for sentence at the Crown court, may be sentenced in the following year or found guilty of a different offence than that proceeded against. (6) Other sentences includes: suspended sentence and otherwise dealt with Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice
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