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Prisoners: Ex-service Personnel

Question

Asked by Lord Dubs

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): We aim to have initial findings on the proportion of veterans among the prison population and their spread across establishments in England and Wales later this year. Research would follow this on the nature of veterans offending and the factors that might have contributed.

Prisons: Extremism

Question

Asked by Baroness Warsi

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): The National Offender Management Service is delivering a programme of work to address the risks associated with violent extremism and radicalisation in prisons including improved intelligence gathering; training and awareness-raising for staff; support for chaplaincy teams; and work to research and develop appropriate interventions. Within this programme a series of briefings, written materials and events have been delivered. Work is currently taking place to determine the future training needs.

Asked by Baroness Warsi



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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) spends significant sums of money in delivering its responsibilities of protecting the public and reducing reoffending. In addition to the ongoing costs involved in holding terrorist prisoners securely and running effective regimes, NOMS is taking forward a multi-disciplinary programme of work funded by the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT). Over the last three years OSCT has provided the following: 2005-06 £65,463, 2006-07 £140,535 and 2007-08 £822,542. Funding of £2.7 million has been allocated by OSCT for 2008 09.

As part of this programme, a variety of briefings to staff have been provided. However, operational security considerations mean that I am unable to place copies of the supporting materials used in the Library of the House.

Prisons: Muslim Chaplains

Question

Asked by Baroness Warsi

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): There are currently 197 Muslim Chaplains serving in prisons in England and Wales. The number of Muslim Chaplains currently serving at each prison is set out in the table below. These figures will include Chaplains appointed on an employed (full time and part time) basis, and on a sessional basis (some sessional Chaplains work for only a few hours each week). Information on the number of Muslim Chaplains serving in each prison for the last five years is not collected centrally or locally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.



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Prison establishmentNumber of Muslim Chaplains

Acklington

1

Albany

1

Altcourse

1

Ashfield

1

Ashwell

1

Askham Grange

1

Aylesbury

1

Bedford

2

Belmarsh

3

Birmingham

3

Blakenhurst

2

Blantyre House

1

Blundeston

1

Brinsford

2

Bristol

2

Brixton

4

Brockhill

2

Bronzefield

1

Buckley Hall

2

Bullingdon

2

Bullwood Hall

1

Camp Hill

1

Canterbury

1

Cardiff

1

Castington

1

Channings Wood

Vacancy

Chelmsford

2

Coldingley

1

Cookham wood

2

Dartmoor

1

Deerbolt

1

Doncaster

I

Dorchester

1

Dovegate

1

Dover

2

Downview

I

Drake Hall

I

Durham

2

East Sutton Park

1

Eastwood Park

1

Edmunds Hill

1

Elmley

1

Erlestoke

1

Everthorpe

1

Exeter

Vacancy

Featherstone

1

Feltham

6

Ford

1

Forest Bank

2

Foston Hall

1

Frankland

1

Full Sutton

3

Garth

1

Gartree

1

Glen Parva

1

Gloucester

1

Grendon/Springhill

1

Guys Marsh

1

Haslar

2

Haverigg

1

Hewell Grange

1

High Down

1

Highpoint

1

Hindley

1

Hollesley Bay

1

Holloway

1

Holme House

1

Hull

1

Huntercombe

2

Kennet

1

Kingston

1

Kirkham

2

Kirklevington Grange

1

Lancaster Castle

1

Lancaster Farms

1

Latchmere House

1

Leeds

3

Leicester

1

Lewes

2

Leyhill

1

Lincoln

1

Lindholme

2

Littlehey

1

Liverpool

1

Long Lartin

3

Low Newton

1

Lowdham Grange

2

Maidstone

1

Manchester

3

Moorland Closed

1

Moorland Open

1

Morton Hall

Vacancy

New Hall

1

North Sea Camp

1

Northallerton

1

Norwich

1

Nottingham

1

Onley

2

Parc

1

Parkhurst

1

Pentonville

1

Peterborough

1

Portland

1

Prescoed

1

Preston

1

Ranby

1

Reading

1

Risley

2

Rochester

1

Rye Hill

2

Send

1

Shepton Mallet

Vacancy

Shrewsbury

2

Springhill

1

Stafford

2

Stanford Hill

1

Stocken

1

Stoke Heath

1

Styal

2

Sudbury

1

Swaleside

2

Swansea

1

Swinfen Hall

2

The Mount

2

The Verne

1

Thorn Cross

1

Usk

1

Wakefield

2

Wandsworth

4

Warren Hill

1

Wayland

1

Wealstun

1

Wellingborough

1

Werrington

1

Wetherby

1

Whatton

1

Whitemoor

2

Winchester

Vacancy

Wolds

2

Woodhill

4

Wormwood Scrubs

4

Wymott

2

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