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Some Primary Care Trusts supplement central allocations with some local funding for clinical services. However, this information is not recorded centrally.
Provision for the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with drug misuse problems under the National Probation Service's supervision is primarily delivered through the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR), which has replaced the Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO). The Ministry of Justice contributes to the Pooled Treatment Budget to pay for the treatment and testing for these orders. Probation areas are also funded to provide the supervision and enforcement of these orders. Before the introduction of the DTTO in 2000, treatment and rehabilitation for drug misusing offenders was commissioned at the local probation area level and was not recorded centrally.
Provision for the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with alcohol misuse problems under the National Probation Service's supervision is commissioned at the local probation area level and is not recorded centrally.
A breakdown of funding for DTTOs/DRRs is shown in the following table. The treatment is commissioned locally in partnership with the DAT and is delivered by a range of voluntary and public sector treatment providers. We do not centrally record what proportion of each DATs budget is specifically spent on Drug Rehabilitation Requirements.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what funding has been allocated for the provision of drug and alcohol treatment for offenders (a) in custody and (b) serving community sentences for 2008-09, broken down by funding source; and if he will make a statement. [196130]
Mr. Hanson: The following table shows indicative funding for prison drug treatment funding for 2008-09 by source. Figures may be subject to change.
Some additional clinical drug treatment funding for prisons may be sourced locally by primary care trusts, but this information is not recorded centrally.
Funding for alcohol treatment is not separated out from overall drug treatment funding.
| £ million | ||
| Drug/Alcohol Treatment Intervention | Source | Allocation 2008-09 |
| (1) Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare service. | ||
Provision for the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with drug misuse problems under the National Probation Service's supervision is primarily delivered through the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR), which has replaced the Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO). The Ministry of Justice expects to contribute £22 million in 2008-09 to the Pooled Treatment Budget (PTB) (in addition to a £20 million permanent transfer to the Department of Health) to pay for the treatment and testing for these orders. Probation areas are also broadly expected to spend £39 million to provide the supervision and enforcement of these orders.
For those offenders who are not sentenced to a specific drug misuse requirement as part of their community order, but who want or need to access treatment, referral to community drug services/clinical treatment is carried out on a voluntary basis. Offenders will have to access local treatment services on the same basis as the rest of the population and we do not centrally record the cost of each offender on the probation caseload who accesses treatment in this way.
Provision for the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with alcohol misuse problems under the National Probation Service's supervision is commissioned at the local probation area level and is not recorded centrally. In particular, probation areas ability to deliver alcohol treatment as
part of a community sentence is largely dependent upon the nature and extent of provision commissioned by local primary care trusts (PCTs) as part of NHS provision. In addition, the Ministry of Justice will be making seed funding available to probation areas to identify, support and disseminate best practice in working with alcohol misusers, although the exact sum has yet to be finalised.
Prison Accommodation
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners were (a) doubling up in cells designed for one and (b) trebling up in cells designed for two on the latest date for which figures are available. [196151]
Maria Eagle: At the end of February, 19,382 prisoners were reported as being doubled in cells certified to hold one person and 1,207 prisoners were reported as being trebled in cells certified to hold two people.
Prison Sentences
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will publish the (a) original and (b) revised algorithm on the ICA1 form as referred to in Prison Service Instruction 07/2008. [196149]
Maria Eagle: The revision to the algorithm on the ICA1 form takes account of prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection with short tariffs of three years and under. The revised algorithm for allocation of such prisoners means that, unless a risk assessment indicates otherwise, these prisoners will be assessed as Category C and allocated to the Category C training estate. Here they will be able to access a wider range of offending behaviour programmes. Copies of the original and revised forms will be placed in the Library.
Prisoners: Dorchester Prison
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners at HMP Dorchester (a) self-harmed, (b) committed suicide and (c) died of (i) natural and (ii) unnatural causes in each of the last 52 weeks for which figures are available. [196400]
Maria Eagle: Information about self-harm cannot be provided in the requested format. However there were an estimated 53 incidents of self-harm at HMP Dorchester in the last 52 weeks.
There has been one death at HMP Dorchester in the last 52 weeks and that was self-inflicted.
Prisoners: Mentally Ill
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of the prison population have been held in (a) NHS and (b) independent sector mental healthcare places in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [196068]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I have been asked to reply.
The latest available statistics, as shown in the following table, show that the following numbers of prisoners were transferred from prison custody to hospital in the years between 1997 and 2006:
| Number | |
| Source: Ministry of Justice Statistical Bulletin. Statistics of Mentally Disordered Offenders 2006 England and Wales. | |
Figures are not available showing the breakdown between national health service and the Independent sector.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent assessment the Department has made of the number and proportion of the prison population with one or more mental health condition, broken down by condition; and if he will make a statement. [196070]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I have been asked to reply.
A survey, ‘Psychiatric Morbidity among Prisoners in England and Wales’ (Office for National Statistics (ONS), 1997) showed that 90 per cent., of prisoners have at least one significant mental health problem, including personality disorder, psychosis, neurosis, alcohol misuse and drug dependence.
Although the 1997 ONS study is now quite old, it is still regarded as an accurate reflection of the situation today.
Prisoners: Personal Records
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2008, Official Report, columns 1118-19W, on prisoners: personal records, what records his Department holds on the average length of time taken for a prisoner’s full records to be received by the prison of destination following transfer. [196155]
Maria Eagle: Information is not held centrally on the time it takes for these records to transfer from one prison to another; but the principle is that the form travels with the prisoner’s escorting officer and so the transfer should be immediate.
Re-offenders: Research
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken into the relationship between prison regimes and re-offending rates; and if he will publish such research. [196150]
Mr. Hanson: No specific research has been commissioned to investigate the relationship between aspects of prison regimes and re-offending. However, the latest available re-offending data, for the 2004 cohort of adult prisoners discharged from custody, shows that re-offending decreased by 4.6 per cent. between 2000 and 2004 after controlling for changes in offender characteristics. Re-offending behaviour can be influenced by not just the programmes run in prisons, but also the work of probation services and other partners once the offender has been released, as well as a wider range of socio-economic factors.
Northern Ireland
Departmental Information Officers
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were employed in his Department's press office in each of the last five years; and how much it cost to run the office, including utilities and other expenses, in each year. [187051]
Mr. Woodward: The number of people employed in Northern Ireland Information Service (NIIS), the Communications Directorate of the Northern Ireland Office, for each of the last five years is detailed in the following table.
| Press officers | Admin/support staff | Total | |
The operating budget for NIIS for each of the last five years is shown in the following table.
| £ | |
These figures include staff salaries and all salary related costs including other expenditure incurred in pursuance of our overall objective of presenting and explaining Government policy in Northern Ireland by appropriately communicating the objectives of the NIO in a positive, timely, impartial and professional manner.
Discrimination
David T.C. Davies:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many claims for discrimination, based on (a) sex, (b) race and (c) sexual orientation,
were brought by members of his Department and settled (i) in and (ii) out of court in each of the last five years. [194987]
Mr. Woodward: There were five cases brought against the Northern Ireland Office Core Department by its staff settled during the time specified. Four cases were on grounds of sex; two in 2004-05, one in 2006-07 and one in 2007-08. There was one case on grounds of race in 2003-04. All cases were settled out of court. There were no cases during this period based on sexual orientation.
The NIO has procedures in place for dealing with complaints of discrimination and the majority of complaints brought by staff will be dealt with under these procedures without recourse to Tribunals.
In accordance with Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, all personnel policies affecting staff are screened to ensure that they do not have an adverse affect on any of the nine groups specified under the legislation, which include gender, race and sexual orientation. In addition, NIO staff receive training on avoiding discriminatory behaviour in the workplace, including on the basis of gender, race and sexual orientation. Until recently, this took the form of mandatory equal opportunities awareness training for new staff as part of their induction. This has been replaced by a new diversity course which is currently being rolled out to the whole Department.
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