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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which department of the Prison Service advises prisons on producing information booklets for prisoners; whether the distribution of information booklets in prisons is monitored; and what guidelines have been issued concerning what information should be provided for prisoners (a) on...

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 February 2005

Reference

215295; 431 c783W;431 c779W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether privately managed prisons have access to the Prison Service intranet.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 February 2005

Reference

215297; 431 c739W;431 c735W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the contractual obligations for privately managed prisons are in relation to the provision of information to prisoners.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 February 2005

Reference

215296; 431 c739W;431 c735W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners who began intensive drug treatment programmes in 2003-04 (a) completed and (b) dropped out of the programme; if he will list the prisons which run internal drug treatment programmes, broken down by type of programme. - Inc...

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

2 November 2004

For answer on

15 November 2004

Answered on

15 November 2004

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prisoners who began intensive drug treatment programmes in 2003-04 (a) completed and (b) dropped out of the programme; [196273] (2) if he will list the prisons which run internal drug treatment programmes, broken down by type of programme. [196274] Paul Goggins: In 2003-04, of the 4,703 prisoners entering intensive drug treatment programmes, there were 2,418 completions. The list of prisons that run internal drug treatment programmes is given in the following table. External contractors also run drug programmes in some of these and other prisons. Drug treatment programmes run internally Accredited programmes PASRO1 Ashwell--East Midlands South Chelmsford--Eastern Elmley--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Glen Parva--East Midlands South Haverigg--North West Lancaster Castle--North West Leeds--Yorkshire and Humberside Liverpool--North West Low Newton--North East Maidstone--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Moorlands--Yorkshire and Humberside Parc--Wales Risley--North West Rochester--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Stafford--West Midlands Swinfen Hall--West Midlands Wayland--Eastern Ranby--East Midlands North STOP2 Gartree--East Midlands South Stocken--East Midlands South Other programmes Validated3 Ashfield--Juveniles Bristol--South West Nottingham--East Midlands Reading--Thames Valley Short duration programme4 Bedford--Eastern Exeter--South West New Hall--Female Estate Nottingham--East Midlands Wormwood Scrubs--London Manchester--North West Blakenhurst--West Midlands Glen Parva--East Midlands South Pentonville--London Birmingham--West Midlands Swansea--Wales. 1 PASRO--Prisons Addressing Substance Related Offending. 2 STOP--Substance, Treatment and Offending Programme. 3 Area Manager Validated sites. Framework fully adheres to the NTA definition within tier 3. 4 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for short-term and remand prisoners, which provides a suitable platform for release into the community.

Date

15 November 2004

Reference

426 c1126-7W;426 c1130-1W; 196273;196274

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Prison Service's review of the Counselling, Assessment, Referal, Advice and Throughcare Services (CARATS) for prisoners with drug misuse problems has been completed; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 November 2004

Reference

196275; 426 c1127W;426 c1131W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any prisoners in England and Wales are having to adopt the practice of slopping out.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 June 2004

Reference

171859; 423 c25W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates since 1999 prison service officials have accompanied representations from government departments of the Republic of Ireland on visits to private prisons in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 April 2004

Reference

420 c109W; 164302

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff in each prison in England and Wales are from a minority ethnic group. - Inc table.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 March 2004

For answer on

23 March 2004

Answered on

23 March 2004

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of staff in each prison in England and Wales are from a minority ethnic group. [161064] Paul Goggins: The information is contained in the table. The data reflects the proportion of all staff working at each public sector prison who have voluntarily declared themselves to be from a minority ethnic group, compared to the total staff in post. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Establishment Proportion of minority ethnic staff (based on voluntary declarations) Acklington 2.1 Albany 1.5 Ashwell 0.7 Askham Grange 4.8 Aylesbury 8.3 Bedford 5.9 Belmarsh 7.9 Birmingham 11.9 Blakenhurst 4.7 Blantyre House 2.6 Blundeston 2.0 Brinsford 8.8 Bristol 4.7 Brixton 24.6 Brockhill 7.4 Buckley Hall 3.3 Bullingdon 4.4 Bullwood Hall 6.1 Camp Hill 1.1 Canterbury 1.0 Cardiff 2.0 Castington 0.8 Channings Wood 1.1 Chelmsford 4.2 Coldingley 3.3 Cookham Wood 2.6 Dartmoor 3.1 Deerbolt 0.9 Dorchester 1.1 Dover 4.5 Downview 8.0 Drake Hall 2.0 Durham 0.9 East Sutton Park 1.4 Eastwood Park 3.3 Edmunds Hill 3.9 Elmley 3.8 Erlestoke 1.7 Everthorpe 0.8 Exeter 0.6 Featherstone 2.7 Feltham 16.9 Ford 1.1 Foston Hall 3.2 Frankland 1.6 Full Sutton 0.6 Garth 1.9 Gartree 4.2 Glen Parva 5.1 Gloucester 1.7 Grendon 4.6 Guys Marsh 2.4 Haslar 2.7 Haverigg 1.3 Hewell Grange 2.0 High Down 10.2 Highpoint 2.1 Hindley 1.5 Hollesley Bay 2.0 Holloway 34.9 Holme House 0.6 HQ 12.4 Hull 2.9 Huntercombe 7.0 Kingston 2.7 Kirkham 0.7 Kirklevington Grange 0.9 Lancaster 1.6 Lancaster Farms 0.9 Latchmere House 14.1 Leeds 4.4 Leicester 6.8 Lewes 4.4 Leyhill 1.8 Lincoln 1.0 Lindholme 0.7 Littlehey 4.1 Liverpool 0.6 Long Lartin 2.6 Low Newton 0.7 Maidstone 3.2 Manchester 2.9 Moorland 3.0 Morton Hall 3.5 New Hall 1 .4 North Sea Camp 0.7 Northallerton 0.0 Norwich 2.7 Nottingham 4.1 Onley 4.2 Parkhurst 1.4 Pentonville 29.6 Portland 2.0 Preston 1.9 Ranby 2.0 Reading 5.4 Risley 1.3 Rochester 4.4 Send 2.9 Shepton Mallet 1.4 Shrewsbury 1.4 Stafford 4.0 Standford Hill 2.0 Stocken 2.6 Stoke Heath 2.7 Styal 6.1 Sudbury 3.4 Swaleside 5.9 Swansea 1.6 Swinfen Hall 3.0 The Mount 7.7 The Verne 1.4 Thorn Cross 0.5 Usk/Prescoed 3.2 Wakefield 3.1 Wandsworth 23.8 Warren Hill 2.9 Wayland 1.3 Wealstun 2.5 Weare 1.8 Wellingborough 5.4 Werrington 1.1 Wetherby 3.0 Whatton 2.1 Whitemoor 2.6 Winchester 1.3 Woodhill 4.2 Wormwood Scrubs 28.3 Wymott 2.5 Prison Service Total 5.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

23 March 2004

Reference

161064; 419 c800-2W;419 c802-4W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prison officers in England and Wales are from a minority ethnic group. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2004

Reference

161063; 419 c799W;419 c801W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals committed suicide whilst in custody in England and Wales in each of the last five years. - Including table.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 February 2004

For answer on

1 March 2004

Answered on

1 March 2004

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals committed suicide whilst in custody in England and Wales in each of the last five years. [155386] Paul Goggins: The information requested with respect to prisons and immigration removal centres is provided in the following table: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of self-inflicted deaths1 of Number of self- inflicted deaths of foreign nationals in prison custody foreign nationals in immigration removal centres 1999 7 0 2000 5 1 2001 5 0 2002 10 0 2003 8 21 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The Prison Service employs the term `self-inflicted death' rather than suicide. This includes all those deaths where it appears the prisoner has acted intentionally to take his/her own life. 2 This death occurred at HM Immigration Removal Centre Haslar, a Prison Service managed centre. The police do not collate data centrally on the number of foreign nationals who commit suicide in their custody. Reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prison establishments is an essential part of the Prison Service's decency agenda and a priority for Ministers. A three- year strategy to develop policies and practices to prevent prisoner suicide and manage self-harm started in April 2001. This is currently under review, taking into account learning from the various projects initiated over the last three years, emerging research findings and a wide consultation process. The main principles of the strategy apply across all types of prisons and to all prisoners, regardless of nationality. All immigration removal centres are required to comply with an Operating Standard on suicide and self- harm prevention, and a range of measures is in place to address the issue. These measures include: suicide awareness and emergency first aid training for staff, active Suicide Prevention Committees operating in all centres, and systems for paying particular attention to detainees on their first night in detention or immediately prior to their removal. The police have also undertaken a number of initiatives to prevent self-inflicted deaths in their custody. These include: custody officer training in risk assessment and management, improvements in police practice in relation to the mentally ill, an increase in the range of custody healthcare professionals, improvements in procedures to assess and document specific risks presented by those coming into custody, the use of closed circuit television in cells, and the use in some forces of life signs monitoring systems.

Date

1 March 2004

Reference

418 c723-4W;418 c751W; 155386

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in HM prisons in England and Wales are sharing (a) two to a cell designated for one and (b) three to a cell designated for two. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 January 2004

Reference

416 c1226W; 146956

House

House of Commons

PRISONERS ON REMAND

That this House notes that more than 50,000 people, innocent until proven guilty, are imprisoned each year awaiting trial; notes that half of prisoners on remand do not subsequently receive a custodial sentence; further notes that one in five people remanded in custody are eventually acquitted or have the proceedings...

Primary sponsor

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Type

Early day motions

Date

26 November 2003

Reference

126

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision is made by the Prison Service to ensure that prisons are able to fulfil their statutory duty to provide frequent and reasonable access to legal texts; how many prison libraries stock legal texts and statutes as stipulated in...

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 2003

Reference

412 c720W; 134622;134623

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to release on temporary licence have been made this year and in each of the last five years in (a) all prisons in England and Wales and (b) each individual prison in England and Wales. - Including...

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 October 2003

Reference

130534; 411 c555W;411 c559W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisons in England and Wales have (a) doctors, (b) nurses, (c) doctors or nurses and (d) doctors and nurses available to practice health care (i) 24 hours a day, (ii) 12 hours a day, (iii) every other day,...

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 July 2003

Reference

122970; 408 c645-6W;408 c643-4W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of prison officers are allowed to administer medication to prisoners; and what proportion of those officers have been given medical training.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 July 2003

Reference

122971; 408 c646W;408 c644W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of GDP was spent on prisons in (a) 1973, (b) 1981, (c) 1991 and (d) 2001; and what the expenditure was on prisons in real terms in each of those years. - Inc table.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 June 2003

For answer on

7 July 2003

Answered on

7 July 2003

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of GDP was spent on prisons in (a) 1973, (b) 1981, (c) 1991 and (d) 2001; and what the expenditure was on prisons in real terms in each of those years. [122969] Paul Goggins: The following table provides the information requested, for 1973, 1981, 1991 and 2001 and is based on Prison service costs. Because of changes over the years in the way that the Prison service's costs have been funded and measured, these figures will not be exactly comparable with each other. The level of expenditure in 1990-91 reflects an increased capital spend on new prisons at that time. In recent years such costs have been met through private finance initiative (PFI) contracts, with the capital costs being repaid over a long period. Prison service costs as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. GDP (£ million) Prison service (£ million) Financial year Cash Real terms 2001-02 Cash Real terms 2001-02 Percentage 1972-73 67,167 534,372 78.3 623.0 0.12 1980-81 236,486 592,111 403.5 1,010.3 0.17 1990-91 563,735 773,611 1,341.5 1,840.9 0.24 2000-01 962,613 986,682 1,794.7 1,839.6 0.19 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Prison service costs include current and capital expenditure.

Date

7 July 2003

Reference

122969; 408 c645W;408 c643W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of medication provided in prisons that would normally be administered in tablets is given in liquid form to prevent prisoners storing their medication. - Inc ref to "A Pharmacy Service for Prisoners".

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 July 2003

Reference

122972; 408 c646W;408 c644W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) governing governors and (b) governor grades of prison establishments in England and Wales are from an ethnic minority group; what proportion of staff in the Prison Service are from an ethnic minority group. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 July 2003

Reference

408 c644-5W;408 c642-3W; 122967;122968

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the entrants to detoxification programmes in prisons in England and Wales in 2001-02, what proportion were completed; what proportion were carried out in designated prison health centres; and what the average duration was.

Asked by

Paul Stinchcombe (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 June 2003

Reference

118561; 407 c872-3W;407 c876-7W

House

House of Commons

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