| Operational support grades | Other grades | All grades | ||||
| Establishment | Funded | In- post | Funded | In- post | Funded | In- post |
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Pleural Plaques
Mr Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been diagnosed with pleural plaques in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 2005. [103721]
Mr Djanogly: The Ministry of Justice does not collect any statistics in relation to the number of people diagnosed with pleural plaques. The information is therefore not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by contacting individual medical practices in the specific areas identified to ascertain the number of diagnoses.
Police and Crime Commissioners
Simon Danczuk: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what steps he plans to take to ensure that resources for victims' services are maintained once the commissioning of services is devolved to police and crime commissioners; [103354]
(2) if he will assess the merits of ring-fencing the resources for victims' services which are devolved to police and crime commissioners. [103355]
Mr Blunt: In the consultation document ‘Getting it right for Victims and Witnesses’ the Government set out proposals to raise up to an additional £50 million annually from offenders, to be used for support services for victims and witnesses, in addition to the considerable sums already made available by Government for that purpose. The consultation closed on 22 April and as we consider the many responses we have received we shall certainly look at how to ensure that funding for victims and witnesses is used as intended.
Prison Sentences
Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library any correspondence received from the (a) Metropolitan police, (b) other police forces and (c) Association of Chief Police Officers relating to the abolition of indeterminate public protection sentences. [103696]
Mr Blunt: The Ministry of Justice has no record of receiving any correspondence from the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Metropolitan police or any other police force relating to the abolition of indeterminate public protection sentences.
Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library any risk assessment his Department has conducted on the ending of indeterminate public protection sentences. [103702]
Mr Blunt: The Ministry of Justice has not carried out a specific risk assessment of the abolition of indeterminate public protection sentences. The impact assessment and equality impact assessment of the provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill that relate to the replacement of indeterminate public protection sentences with a mandatory life sentence and extended determinate sentences have been published on the Ministry of Justice website and are available from the Library.
Prison Service: Grievances
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many grievances have been lodged by Prison Service staff in each prison in the last 12 months. [103545]
Mr Blunt: Information on the number of grievance cases raised by staff in each Prison Service establishment in England and Wales from 1 February 2011 to 31 January 2012 is contained in the following table:
| Grievances raised at each Prison Service establishment in England and Wales, 1 February 2011 to 31 January 2012 | |
| Establishment | Grievances raised |
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| (1) HMP Birmingham transferred to private sector management in October and is reported separately as a public and private sector establishment. (2) Unless otherwise stated, information for the private sector is for January to December 2011. (3) Information relates to March 2011 to April 2012. | |
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Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many foreign prisoners of each nationality were held in prisons in England and Wales on the latest date for which figures are available; [103800]
(2) Justice how many prisoners held in prisons in England and Wales hold dual UK and other country nationality. [103802]
Mr Blunt: The following table shows the number of foreign national prisoners of each nationality being held in prisons in England and Wales, as at 31 December 2011. These figures are published quarterly in table 1.6 of the ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletin’ available at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/prisons-and-probation/oms-quarterly
The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the number of prisoners who hold dual UK and other nationalities.
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.
| Population in prison, by nationality, 31 December 2011, England and Wales | |
| Nationality | Total |
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Prisons: Trafficking
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prison staff and (b) sub-contractors have been (i) arrested and (ii) dismissed for bringing mobile telephones or drugs into prisons in the last 12 months. [103543]
Mr Blunt: Information relating to public sector prison staff who have been arrested is not held centrally. However, for the 12-month period from February 2011 to January 2012 a total of 19 public sector prison staff were dismissed for the disciplinary reason of either “Trafficking” or having a “Criminal Conviction”, of which three have been recorded with a sub-charge relating to “Trafficking of Mobile Phones”, “Trafficking of Mobile Phones/Drugs” or “Possession/Supply of Drugs”. The reasons for dismissal in the remaining 16 cases have not been recorded centrally, but we will seek to obtain the information from individual case files and I will write to the hon. Member with the outcome of these inquiries when they have been completed.
Information on sub-contractors is not held centrally.
In contracted sector prisons there have been three arrests and three dismissals for bringing mobile telephones or drugs into prisons in the last 12 months.
Prisons: Drugs
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) which prisons made available the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme to prisoners with drug addictions in the latest period for which figures are available; [103380]
(2) how many prisoners with drug addictions enrolled on the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme in the year for which figures are available; [103381]
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(3) what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme available to prisoners with drug addictions in the latest period for which figures are available. [103382]
Mr Kenneth Clarke: Details of the prison establishments where the specified programmes were available in the last quarter of 2011-12 are set out as follows:
(a) Building Skills for Recovery (BSR):
Altcourse
Aylesbury
Bedford
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Durham
Forest Bank
Glen Parva
Holloway
Leicester
Lincoln
Moorland Closed
Norwich
Onley
Peterborough
Portland
Preston
Sheppey Cluster
Stafford
Styal
Wormwood Scrubs
(b) and (c) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO) programme and P-ASRO for Women:
Chelmsford
Dartmoor
Deerbolt
Durham
Featherstone
Forest Bank
Foston Hall
Guys Marsh
Haverigg
Highpoint North
Highpoint South
Isle of Wight Cluster
Kennet
Lewes
Lindholme
Low Newton
Manchester
Northumberland
Parc
Portland
Ranby
Risley
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Rochester
Sheppey Cluster
Stoke Heath
Swinfen Hall
Wayland
Wealstun
Winchester
Altcourse
Belmarsh
Bullingdon
Chelmsford
Doncaster
Downview
Forest Bank
Hewell
High Down
Holloway
Holme House
Hull
Lancaster Farms
Leeds
Liverpool
New Hall
Northallerton
Nottingham
Pentonville
Peterborough
Reading
Sheppey Cluster
Swansea
Thorn Cross
Wandsworth
Winchester
Woodhill
Wormwood Scrubs
Frankland
Long Lartin
Wakefield
Whitemoor
(f) Prison Partnership 12-step programme:
Erlestoke
(g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community programme:
Blundeston
Channings Wood
Dovegate
Garth
Gartree
Grendon
Holme House
Send
Wymott
(h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt) 12-Step programme:
Bullingdon
Coldingley
Everthorpe
Littlehey
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The Mount
Send
Sheppey Cluster
Springhill
Wandsworth
Everthorpe
Wandsworth
This information has been taken from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Interventions Directory and that although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and delivery may be subject to change.
Figures for the number of starts for the specified programmes in 2010-11 are set out below.
| Programme | Starts in 2010-11 |
| (1) Details for the RAPt 12-Step Alcohol Dependency programme have been excluded from the figures that have been provided as the question was specific related to the provision of programmes to drug-addicted prisoners. | |
Please note that this is the latest period for which the requested data are available, and differs from the period for the information provided in response to the previous question about the provision of programmes.
The costs associated with running the programmes specified in the question are not collated centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost, by obtaining information held in local and national data systems, validating it, collating it in a common format and then calculating the overall costs in order to provide a response.