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| Estimated mean annual basic pay per full-time equivalent for NHS hospital and community health services: HCHS doctors in the psychiatry specialty group of specialties, within the Essex area, 2010 to 2013 | |||||
| Mean annual basic pay per FTE (£) | |||||
| Organisation name | Organisation code | September 2010 | September 2011 | September 2012 | September 2013 |
| 1 Data are obscured as the group had less than 10 FTE staff, in line with the Data Protection Act. 2 Zero. Notes: 1. Mean annual basic pay per FTE is the mean amount of basic pay paid per one FTE post in a 12-month period. 2. Figures in the table are provisional NHS staff earnings estimates. 3. Figures do not include locum staff. 4. As expected with provisional data, some figures may be revised prior to the next publication as issues are uncovered and resolved. 5. Figures rounded to the nearest pound. 6. These figures represent payments made using the ESR system to NHS staff who are employed and directly paid by NHS organisations. 7. These figures have been calculated by taking the basic pay of each individual in September of each year, converting this to what basic pay they would each earn if they worked full-time, and then multiplying this by 12 to obtain an estimate of annual basic pay (salary). This is a cruder method than is used in HSCIC’s published figures but has been proved to be an acceptable method and necessary due to the amount of work otherwise required to answer this question on time. 8. Data quality: The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre: provisional NHS Staff Earnings estimates. All rights reserved. | |||||
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Simon Hart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to stop hoax letters purporting to be from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence informing recipients that they have cancer. [192889]
Norman Lamb: We have been informed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that it is aware that a hoax e-mail is being sent to members of the public purporting to be from NICE which advises the recipient that ‘test results’ indicate they may have cancer.
NICE has informed the Metropolitan Police who are currently investigating the origin of the e-mail. NICE has also reported the hoax e-mail to Action Fraud, the United Kingdom's national fraud and internet crime reporting centre.
NICE has been proactive in ensuring that members of the public understand that the e-mail is a hoax. This has included messages on the NICE website and inquiry line, social media channels and through briefing national and local media. NICE is advising anyone in receipt of the e-mail to delete it and to report it to Action Fraud:
www.actionfraud.police.uk/
Parkinson's Disease
Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department gives to hospitals on ensuring that people with Parkinson's able to self-administer medication in hospital can do so. [192690]
Norman Lamb: The Department has responsibility for health care in England. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued a clinical guideline (CG35) on ‘Parkinson's disease: Diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care’ in June 2006. This stated that, in view of the risks of sudden changes in Parkinson's disease medication, people with Parkinson's disease, who are admitted to hospital or care homes, should have their medication given at appropriate times, which may in some cases mean allowing self-medication.
http://publications.nice.org.uk/parkinsons-disease-cg35/guidance
NHS England advises that each national health service trust in England should have its own medicine management policies and procedures. These should include how to minimise and manage omitted and delayed medicines and have regard to the National Patient Safety Agency's Rapid Response Report 2010/RRR009, ‘Reducing harm from omitted and delayed medicines in hospital’. This provides a list of critical medicines, including those to treat Parkinson's disease, where the timeliness of administration was identified.
www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/alerts/?entryid45=66720
In addition there is other guidance issued by professional bodies, such as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). The RPS issued ‘Professional standards for hospital pharmacy services: optimising patient outcomes from medicines’ in 2012. This states that pharmacists should take steps to minimise omitted and delayed medicines doses in hospitals. The pharmacy team should provide the leadership, systems support and expertise that enable patients to self-administer medicines, where possible. In addition, systems should be in place to prioritise dispensing in order to minimise the risks of omitted and delayed doses of critical medicines or of delayed discharge.
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Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free prescriptions to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out. [193244]
Norman Lamb: The cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free prescriptions to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out will depend on the number of claimants at that time. This number will depend on a range of factors. This is likely to be greater than the number of people that currently qualify for free prescriptions because of their current benefits or tax credits. However the Government intend that broadly the same number of individuals will be passported via universal credit as are currently passported.
Prostate Cancer
Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether he plans to ask the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to consider using its end-of-life criteria in its appraisal of abiraterone for the treatment of metastatic hormone relapsed prostate cancer not previously treated with chemotherapy; and if he will make a statement; [192592]
(2) what discussions his officials have had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concerning the applicability of NICE's end of life criteria to (a) abiraterone for castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-containing regimen and (b) abiraterone acetate for the treatment of metastatic hormone relapsed prostate cancer not previously treated with chemotherapy since May 2010; and if he will make a statement; [192593]
(3) if he will place in the Library a copy of the March 2012 letter from Simon Reeve in his Department to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence concerning the appraisal of the treatment abiraterone for prostate cancer. [192610]
Norman Lamb: As an independent body it is for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to decide when it is appropriate to apply its end of life flexibilities.
As a stakeholder in the appraisal, the Department replied to NICE's consultation on its draft recommendations
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on abiraterone (Zytiga) for the treatment of castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-containing regimen. A copy of the letter sent to NICE has been placed in the Library.
NICE is currently appraising the use of abiraterone for metastatic hormone relapsed prostate cancer not previously treated with chemotherapy and has not yet issued draft guidance for consultation. Departmental officials have had no other contact with NICE about the application of its end of life flexibilities in either of these appraisals.
Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prosecutions there have been under the Sunbed (Regulations) Act 2010; and if he will make a statement. [192942]
Jane Ellison: Local authorities are responsible for enforcement of the Sunbeds (Regulations) Act 2010, and any decisions on prosecutions or other regulatory action of sunbed businesses is a matter for them. There are no national statistics on the number of prosecutions.
Justice
Computer Misuse Act 1990
Bridget Phillipson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions there have been under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in each year for which figures are available. [192534]
Jeremy Wright: Cyber crime is a serious threat to the UK and this Government have taken action to tackle it. The Home Office has so far spent £43 million from the National Cyber Security Programme to build law enforcement capabilities to tackle cyber crime, and we expect to invest further in 2014-15 to continue this work.
The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates court and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to the Computer Misuse Act 1990, from 1990 to 2012 (latest available), can be viewed in the table.
Court proceedings data for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014.
| Defendants proceeded against at magistrates court, found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to the Computer Misuse Act 1990, England and Wales, 1990-20121,2 | ||||||
| Of which: | ||||||
| Proceeded Against | Found Guilty3 | Conviction Ratio4 | Sentenced5 | Immediate custody | Custody Rate (percentage)6 | |
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| 1 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. 2 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. 3 The number of defendants found guilty in a particular year may exceed the number proceeded against as the proceedings in the magistrates court took place in an earlier year and the defendants were found guilty at the Crown Court in the following year; or the defendants were found guilty of a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against. 4 Conviction ratio is calculated as the number of convictions as a proportion of the number of proceedings. 5 The number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year. 6 The proportion of offenders sentenced who are sentenced to immediate custody. 7 Excludes data for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice. | ||||||
Courts
Mary Macleod: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of cases referred by the police or the Crown Prosecution Service to a Crown or magistrates court in England and Wales were adjourned (a) once, (b) twice, (c) three times and (d) four or more times in each of the last two years. [190168]
Mr Vara: The Ministry of Justice centrally collates data on the number cases before magistrates courts and the Crown court in England and Wales, and the total number of hearings each case had before it concluded and from that how many times the case was adjourned from its first hearing to its final hearing. An adjournment is a hearing that is suspended, meaning that a case will be further considered by the court at a later hearing. The number of adjournments in a case is therefore one fewer than the total number of hearings taking place. There are a number of different types of hearings from preliminary hearings, bail applications, trials and sentence hearings and different cases require different numbers of hearings.
It is not possible to separately identify police and Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions in the Crown court so all trial cases are included.
Table 1 shows data for the number of adjournments of defendants cases at magistrates courts prosecuted by the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, England and Wales, 2010-13.
Table 2 shows data for the number of adjournments of trial cases at the Crown court (all prosecutor types), England and Wales, 2009-13.
The proportion of defendants whose case is dealt with in one hearing at the magistrates courts increased from 52% in 2011 to 55% in 2012. Judicially-led initiatives in the Crown court, such as the early guilty plea scheme, and in the magistrates courts, such as stop delaying justice, have started to have an impact on the in court culture with challenge on the need to enter a guilty plea early in the process. The Ministry of Justice is working with Sir Brian Leveson and is investing in new technology to reduce the number of adjourned cases.
| Table 1: Number of adjournments at magistrates courts prosecuted by the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, England and Wales, 2010-131, 2, 3, 4 | ||||
| Defendants (number) | ||||
| Adjournments | 20105 | 2011 | 2012 | 20134 |
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| 1 Includes all cases completed in the magistrates courts. 2 Excludes breaches and cases with an offence to completion time greater than 10 years. 3 Only one offence is counted for each defendant in the case. If two or more cases complete on the same day, the case with the longest duration is included. 4 Latest information available to September 2013. 5 Figures are only available from April 2010, so data for 2010 is presented above for Q2 to Q4 only. Source: Criminal Court Statistics, Justice Statistics Analytical Services (REF: PQ 190168). |
| Table 2: Number of adjournments1 of trial cases at the Crown court, all prosecutor types, England and Wales, 2009-132,3 | |||||
| Cases (number) | |||||
| Adjournments | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 20133 |
| 1 Adjournments show the total number of hearings after the first hearing in the Crown court and may include bail applications, mentions, preliminary hearings, trials or sentencing hearings depending on the nature of the case. 2 Includes all trial cases completed in the Crown court in London. Committals for sentence and appeals against magistrates decisions are not included. 3 Latest information available to June 2013. Source: HMCTS CREST case management system (REF: PQ 190168). | |||||
Homicide
Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many defendants in homicide cases have pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility in each year since 2010; and how many defendants have been convicted with diminished responsibility in each of those years. [192012]
Jeremy Wright: The number of offenders found guilty and sentenced for manslaughter, having successfully pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility in England and Wales from 2010 to 2012 (the latest data available) can be viewed in the table. Court proceedings data for this offence for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014
Manslaughter is an extremely serious offence that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Receiving a community sentence or suspended sentence for manslaughter, having successfully pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility, would have been the result of the exceptional circumstances of the case.
The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought but not the specific circumstances of each case. Data on the number of cases in which the partial defence of diminished responsibility was unsuccessfully pleaded are not centrally held. This detailed information may be held on the court record but due to the size and complexity is not reported centrally to the MOJ. As such, the information requested can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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| Offenders found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences of manslaughter where the defence of diminished responsibility was successfully pleaded1, England and Wales, 2010 to 20122,3 | |||
| Outcome | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| ‘-' = Nil 1 An offence under section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957. 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 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 The category Otherwise Dealt With (ODW) includes: one day in police cells; disqualification order; restraining order; confiscation order; travel restriction order; disqualification from driving; recommendation for deportation, hospital orders; and other miscellaneous disposals. 5 Excludes life and indeterminate sentences. Note: Estimates of custody rate and average custodial sentence length may not be reliable due to the small numbers of cases. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice | |||
Homicide: Liverpool
Steve Rotheram: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people convicted of attempted murder have been granted permission to enter exclusion zones in the Liverpool city region which form part of their licence arrangements since 1 January 2014; [191982]
(2) if he will initiate a review into the reasons why Mr Edward McEvilly was permitted to enter an exclusion zone in which his victim lives within one week of his release from prison. [191983]
Jeremy Wright: An exclusion zone may be put in place where it is necessary to protect victims from sexual and violent offenders on their release from prison. An exclusion zone will also have the benefit of minimising any prospect of victims coming into unwanted contact with such offenders.
Victims who opt into the victim contact scheme have a statutory right to make representations about exclusion zones they would like to be imposed. However, an exclusion zone will not always be absolute, as it is recognised that there may be exceptional reasons why the offender needs to enter it. Thus, where an exclusion zone is included in the offender's licence, it will usually be open to the supervising officer to grant the offender permission to enter the exclusion zone, for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.
As this is a purely localised decision, there is no national record of the number of occasions such permission has been given. To answer the hon. Member’s first question would require carrying out a manual search through all relevant individual offender files, which would incur disproportionate cost.
In the case of Mr McEvilly, his supervising officer in Merseyside Probation Trust found that there was an exceptional reason to permit a temporary incursion
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into the exclusion zone. The trust undertook a full risk assessment prior to granting Mr McEvilly permission to enter the exclusion zone for a time-limited period. The trust kept the victim fully informed throughout the process and a senior probation manager notified the victim as soon as Mr McEvilly had left the zone. It would therefore not be appropriate to initiate a review into this case.
Judges
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints have been received against named judges in each of the last five years. [190160]
Mr Vara: The information requested is not held for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, although because statistical information collected and published in the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) (formerly the Office for Judicial Complaints) annual report contains details of all complaints received by the JCIO, it does not include a separate breakdown of complaints by named judges.
Complaints against named judges that have not been upheld are removed from the JCIO database, in accordance with the Ministry of Justice retention policy, after two years. It is not possible therefore to obtain the information requested where it is over two years old. The information in respect of complaints received by the JCIO against named judges for the financial year for 2012-13 is 1,487 and for 2013-14 to date is 1,520. These figures include complaints about Coroners and Assistant Coroners and recommendations for disciplinary sanction against Tribunal Judges.
Legal Aid Scheme
Yvonne Fovargue: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many new matter starts there have been in (a) welfare benefits, (b) family and mediation, (c) debt, (d) employment and (e) housing since April 2013. [186512]
Mr Vara: The number of cases started from April to September 2013 broken down by the areas of legal aid requested is shown in the following table.
| Category of Law | Case Starts |
| 1 Employment has been outside the scope of legal aid since 1 April 2013 which is when the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 came into force. Therefore the five employment cases shown above relate to pre-existing clients. | |
We have provided figures up to September 2013 as we will be publishing Official Statistics for the full financial year in June 2014.
Mediation
Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many civil claims involving litigants in person were referred to mediation in (a) July to September 2013 and (b) July to September 2012. [190158]
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Simon Hughes: This information is available only at disproportionate cost. This is because while the volume of referrals to mediation is recorded, the details of individual cases referred are not recorded.
To obtain the information requested would involve a manual check of every claim that could have been referred to mediation during the periods in question to identify whether or not the claim was referred to mediation, and if so, the status of the parties to the case.
We are working towards publishing data on self- representation in civil procedures and will publish this in our statistical publication in 2014.
Parties with no legal representation are not a new phenomenon in our courts. Judges are used to helping persons with no legal representation, including explaining procedures and what is expected of them. Guidance published in April 2013 by the Civil Justice Council specifically for litigants in person bringing or defending a small claim suggests mediation as an alternative to court action.
Missing Persons
Ann Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he expects to launch the consultation on the creation of a status of guardian of the affairs of a missing person. [192669]
Mr Vara: The Government are committed to helping people who are put into the awful position of losing a loved one who has gone missing, which is why we are changing the law on presumption of death to help them to deal with the legal issues that come up. My Department is also working with the charity Missing People and its pro bono lawyers Clifford Chance LLP to prepare the consultation paper on the creation of a status of guardian of the property and affairs of missing persons and intends to publish it as soon as possible this year.
Personal Injury: Compensation
Jonathan Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to set out the timetable of meetings to be held by the working groups on whiplash reform; when he expects the recommendations of those working groups to be implemented; and if he will make a statement. [192946]
Mr Vara: The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), and I met industry experts in January to discuss how we could take forward this work, drawing on the consensus that exists to improve the process. We have since established working groups which have been tasked with drawing up rules to fix the costs of medical reports in whiplash cases. Our intention is that the rules be agreed by the summer. The groups will continue to meet regularly to deliver the reforms. Further details about the programme are published on the MOJ website at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/civil-justice-reforms/personal-injury-claims
Prison Service
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what mandatory training is given to prison officers to help them identify prisoners susceptible to being radicalised. [192529]
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Jeremy Wright: All newly recruited prison officers receive training to raise their awareness of extremism and radicalisation, and enable them to confidently and appropriately identify, report, and manage those prisoners who exhibit extremist behaviours. This training is incorporated in their mandatory initial training course. Training is also available to other prison staff, developed in conjunction with the Association of Chief Police Officers, which examines the threat of extremism, how to identify extremist offenders and looks in detail at specific forms of extremism.
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners of each (a) ethnicity, (b) country of origin and (c) gender are held in the UK. [192615]
Jeremy Wright: The information requested is as follows:
Table 1 provides information on the ethnicity of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) held in custody:
| Table 1: Foreign national prison population by ethnicity, 31 December 2013, England and Wales | |
| All | |
Table 2 provides information on gender of FNOs held in custody:
| Table 2: Foreign national prison population by gender, 31 December 2013, England and Wales | |
| All | |
We do not hold data on the country of origin of FNOs held in custody. However we do publish data in relation to self-declared nationality, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276084/prison-population-tables-q3-2013.xls
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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.
All FNOs sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.
The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 235 FNOs to date.
Whereas this Government have begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.
Prisoners: Muslims
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of prisoners in the (a) whole secure estate, (b) adult male secure estate, (c) adult female secure estate, (d) youth male secure estate and (e) youth female secure estate identified as Muslim on 1 January in each of the last five years. [192526]
Jeremy Wright: Data are held centrally on the prison population on the last day of each month, so figures have been provided for 31 December. Table 1 provides the number and proportion of Muslim prisoners in the (a) whole secure estate, (b) adult male secure estate, (c) youth male secure estate and (d) female secure estate from 2009 to 2013.
Table 2 shows the number and proportion of young people held within SCHs and STCs split by (d) males and (e) females, who identify themselves as Muslim. This is self-reported by the young person. The YJB changed its booking system for placing young people into custody during March 2012 from SACHS to eAsset. It is only from this point onwards that information on the religion of the young person in custody was collected. Consequently, data are only available from April 2012 and data by religion are not available for the previous years.
Please note that the religion of prisoners is self-declared and prisoners are under no obligation to declare their religion.
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.
| Table 1: Muslim prison population by type of establishment1, December 2009-132, England and Wales | ||||||||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||
| Muslim | Percentage of total estate | Muslim | Percentage of total estate | Muslim | Percentage of total estate | Muslim | Percentage of total estate | Muslim | Percentage of total estate | |
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| 1 Based on predominant function of the prison. 2 Data for 2009 as at 18 December whereas data for 2010-13 as at 31 December. 3 Prisons are categorised by their predominant function. Of all female prisons there are none which are specifically designated for dealing with young female offenders. Data Source and Quality: 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. | ||||||||||
| Table 2: Number of young people and proportion of young people in SCHs and STCs who identify themselves as Muslim (where known) by gender | ||||||
| December 2012 | December 2013 | |||||
| Gender | Total occupancy | Occupancy by identity of Muslim | Proportion of young people identified as Muslim (percentage) | Total occupancy | Occupancy by identity of Muslim | Proportion of young people identified as Muslim (percentage) |
| Notes: 1. The YJB changed its booking system for placing young people into custody during March 2012 from SACHS to eAsset. It is only from this point onwards that information on the religion of the young person in custody was collected. Consequently, data are only available from April 2012 and data by religion are not available for the previous years. 2. It is not compulsory for this information to be completed by the young person and ‘unknown' is an acceptable category, so there are not complete data for this question. In December 2012, the religion of the young person was not known for 52% of the entire youth custody population in SCHs and STCs and in December 2013, the religion of the young person was not known for 58% of the entire youth population in SCHs and STCs. 3. These data are sourced from the eAsset database, the booking system used by the Youth Justice Board to place young people in custody. It is based on the snapshots for December 2012 and December 2013, which is a snapshot date of 28 December 2012 and 3 January 2014 respectively. The data for December 2013 are provisional and will be finalised in January 2015. Data Source and Quality: 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. | ||||||
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of prisoners in each adult and youth prison in England and Wales identified as Muslim on 1 January of each of the last five years. [192530]
Jeremy Wright: Data are held centrally on the prison population on the last day of each month, so figures have been provided for 31 December. Table 1 provides the number and proportion of Muslim prisoners in each prison establishment from 2009 to 2013.
Table 2 shows the number and proportion of young people held within each Secure Children's Home and Secure Training Centre, who identify themselves as Muslim. This is self-reported by the young person. The YJB changed its booking system for placing young people into custody during March 2012 from SACHS to eAsset. It is only from this point onwards that information on the religion of the young person in custody was collected. Consequently, data are only available from April 2012 and data by religion are not available for the previous years.
Please note that the religion of prisoners is self-declared and prisoners are under no obligation to declare their religion.
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.
| Table 1: Muslim prison population by establishment, December 2009-131, England and Wales | ||||||||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||
| Muslim | % of total prison population | Muslim | % of total prison population | Muslim | % of total prison population | Muslim | % of total prison population | Muslim | % of total prison population | |
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| 1 Data for 2009 as at 18 December whereas data for 2010-13 as at 31 December. 2 HMP Ashwell closed March 2011. 3 HMP Blundeston closed December 2013. 4 HMP Bullwood Hall closed March 2013. 5 HMP Canterbury closed March 2013. 6 HMP Dorchester closed December 2013. 7 HMP Downview closed late 2013. 8 HMP Edmunds Hill merged with HMP Highpoint to become HMP Highpoint North and South. 9 HMP Gloucester closed March 2013. 10 HMP and YOI Isis, which opened on 28 July 2010, is sited within the perimeter wall of HMP Belmarsh. 11 HMP Kingston closed March 2013. 12 HMP Lancaster closed March 2011. 13 HMP Latchmere House closed September 2011. 14 In early 2011 HMP Morton Hall closed (having previously been a female prison) and then re-opened as an Immigration Removal Centre, holding immigration detainees on behalf of UKBA. On 16 May, Morton Hall began operating as an Immigration Removal Centre. 15 HMP Northallerton closed in late 2013. 16 HMP Northumberland is the new name for Acklington and Castington. 17 HMP Oakwood opened in April 2012, and came into full operation by spring 2013. 18 Peterborough is a dual purpose prison for men and women. 19 HMP Reading closed in late 2013. 20 HMP Shepton Mallet closed March 2013. 21 HMP Shrewsbury closed March 2013. 22 HMP Thameside opened March 2012. 23 HMP Verne closed in late 2013. 24 HMP Wellingborough closed December 2012. Data Sources and Quality: 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. | ||||||||||