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Prisons: Drugs

Answer

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""Rochester""Sheppey Cluster""Stoke Heath""Swinfen Hall""Wayland""Weal stun""Winchester"(d) Short Duration programme:"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"(e) FOCUS programme:"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""The Mount""Send""Sheppey Cluster""Springhill""Wandsworth"(i) Bridge programme:"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 as follows.

Programme	Starts in 2010-11
(a) Building Skills for Recovery (BSR)	161
(b) P-ASRO	2,764
(c) P-ASRO for Women	82
(d) Short Duration Programme	4,639
(e) FOCUS programme	97
(f) Prison Partnership 12-step programme	133
(g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community	235
(h) RAPt 12-Step—Substance Dependency¹	598
(i) Bridge programme	59
Grand total	8,768
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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

103381; 543 c688-91W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Drugs Prisons

Link

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