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The offender’s attitude to his or her offending, including any expression of remorse, will form part of the Parole Board assessment.
Prisons: Sexual Health Services
Baroness Gould of Potternewton asked Her Majesty's Government:
What resources are being made available to ensure primary care trusts are providing an adequate sexual health service to prisoners; and [HL6712]
Whether all women’s prisons offer cervical cancer screening and contraceptive advice to women prisoners.[HL6711]
The Minister of State, Department of Health (Lord Warner): Primary care trusts (PCTs) now have commissioning and clinical governance responsibility for the health services provided within publicly managed prisons. Prisons and PCTs work together through managed co-ordination to ensure that the quality of healthcare delivered within prisons is comparable to that provided by the NationalHealth Service for the wider community. Resource allocations are underpinned by prison health needs assessments.
Sexual health is recognised to be an important healthcare need and therefore resources are allocated accordingly and to match the need within prisons. This process will include women’s contraception and cervical cancer screening, although information on which prisons provide these services is not held centrally.
Royal Travel
Lord Berkeley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Davies of Oldham: The grant-in-aid for royal travel may be used to pay for all official air and rail travel by members of the Royal Family. Official travel is, broadly, that undertaken for state, representational, or other royal duties, including journeys by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales between residences and travel when required for safety or security reasons.
Lord Berkeley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Which individual journeys undertaken by those in receipt of royal travel grant-in-aid costbetween £2,500 and £10,000 during the year 2005-06.[HL6735]
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Lord Davies of Oldham: Three hundred and seventy-seven journeys costing less than £10,000 were undertaken during 2005-06.
Lord Berkeley asked Her Majesty's Government:
What plans they have to review the Memorandum of Understanding between the Keeper of the Privy Purse and the Secretary of State for Transport on royal travel grant-in-aid; and whether the need for greater use of sustainable transport will be included.[HL6736]
Lord Davies of Oldham: Finalisation of the review of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Royal Household and the Department for Transport was deferred pending publication of Sir Peter Gershon's independent report into the provision of air travel for the Royal Family and government Ministers. This was to allow the revision to take account of any implications for royal travel. Sir Peter’s report was published on 29 June. The department and the household will now take forward work to complete revision of the memorandum.
The original memorandum did not include any reference to sustainable transport. The department and the household will consider whether the revised memorandum should establish new criteria on sustainable transport. A copy of the revised memorandum will be placed in the Library of the House.
Sudan: Darfur
Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they intend to raise with the Governments of China, Chad, Libya and Eritrea the findings of the recent United Nations report, The Supply of Small Arms, about the continuing sale of arms to the Darfur region of Sudan.[HL6787]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Triesman): There is a UN arms embargo on Darfur and an EU arms embargo on the whole of Sudan. The UK scrupulously follows both of these. There is evidence, including in the recent report prepared by the UN Panel of Experts for Sudan, that the arms embargo is being breached by all sides involved in the Darfur conflict and by others in the region.
We are aware of reports that Chinese weapons have been found in Darfur. We are actively encouraging China and other states to support work towards an arms trade treaty which would end the irresponsible trade in conventional arms.
We have had no recent discussions on arms with Chad, Libya and Eritrea. However, we continue to discuss with all the states of the region how to promote lasting peace and stability in Darfur.
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Terrorism
Baroness Cox asked Her Majesty's Government:
During each of the past five years, how many terrorist attacks have been successfully averted by the police and other security personnel.[HL6863]
Lord Bassam of Brighton: It is our policy not to comment on the details of specific operations as these are operational matters for the police and the Security Service.
Water Supply: Consumption
Lord Hanningfield asked Her Majesty's Government:
How much water in total and per occupant in cubic metres was consumed in the headquarters of the Department for Communities and Local Government since its creation; and previously in the headquarters of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in each year since its creation.[HL6569]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government (Baroness Andrews): The Department for Communities and Local Government was created on 5 May 2006 and no water consumption data have yet been collated for the headquarters buildings. Data are available only for the water consumption within the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's headquarters buildings of Eland House and Ashdown House (Victoria). Consumption between May 2002 and31 March 2005 was as follows.
Specific water target in the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate was that departments should reduce water consumption in office buildings to an average of:
7.7 cubic metres person per year by 31 March 2004; and7 cubic metres per person per year for all new buildings/major refurbishments after 2002.Departments have submitted data against the framework water targets in annual sustainable development in government reports. The lastreport published by the Sustainable Development Commission in December 2005, covering the reporting period 2004-05, is available at www.sd-commission.org.uk/watchdog. The data reported for
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Departments have submitted data for SDIG reports, including total volume of water used across the whole of their estate, as well as annual staff
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New targets have been set for the government estate—they were announced on 12 June; the targets include water consumption.
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