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Prisoners: Skilled Workers

Answer

Information on the number of completed work skill awards against the target in each contracted prison in each of the last five years is provided in the following table. Information is not centrally available for the number of prisoners who started work skill awards and can be provided only at a disproportionate cost.

Target and actual key work skill awards in each contracted prison¹
	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03
	Actual	Target	Actual	Target	Actual	Target	Actual	Target	Actual	Target
Altcourse	977	752	1,090	663	591	400	506	200	342	17
Ashfield	5,204	630	931	630	616	500	1,689	150	—	—
Bronzefield²	1,935	800	1,177	800,	630	150	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Doncaster	961	470	1,041	440	783	320	411	240	238	241
Dovegate	2,014	1,137	1,134	1,010	994	825	753	800	554	200
Forest Bank	1,042	844	837	782	804	600	771	300	317	300
Lowdham Grange	1,221	1,208	1,102	1,071	1,056	354	265	221	—	—
Parc	2,210	1,400	2,067	1,060	1,150	750	866	165	637	154
Peterborough³	1,830	760	n/a	—	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Rye Hill	334	330	354	330	408	320	229	300	144	150
Wolds	674	345	386	305	642	250	164	150	231	149
¹ Information has been obtained from the PSimon reporting system. Data has also been published in the Prison Service annual report, Office for Contracted Prisons Statement of Performance and the Regional Commissioning and Partnerships annual report available on the HMPS and NOMS website.
² HMP Bronzefield did not open until June 2004.
³ HMP Peterborough did not open until March 2005. Data for 2006-07 is provided from the Commissioning and Partnerships annual report 2006-07: East of England as data is not available on PSimon. Data has been combined for the male and female prison sites.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

188304; 472 c1503-4W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Prisons Training

Link

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