HC Deb 22 June 1989 vol 155 cc189-91W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list all those organisations and individuals who responded to the Green Paper, "Private Sector Involvement in the Remand System" Cm. 434 and indicating which of them were in favour and which against(a) privately managed secure bail hostels (b) the privatisation of remand prisons and (c) the privatisation of escort services;

(2) if he will make copies of the organisations and individuals who have responded to the Green Paper, "Private Sector Involvement in the Remand System" Cm. 434 available to researchers and other interested bodies.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Eighty five organisations and individuals submitted comments on the Green Paper. These are listed as follows. Copies of the responses (except that from one organisation which commented in confidence) were placed in the Library when my right hon. Friend made his statement of 1 March at columns 277–78. A wide range of views was expressed on many aspects of the issues raised in the Green Paper, and it would be misleading to attempt to summarise the responses in the form requested. The responses are available for inspection on application to the Remands Unit, Home Office, Room 723, Thames house south, Millbank SW1P 4QJ.

Organisations and individuals who responded to the Green paper "Private Sector Involvement in the Remand System" (Cm. 434)

  1. 1. Mr. J. Hunter, Governor, Her Majesty's Prison Highpoint
  2. 2. Mr. A. Samuels, Barrister
  3. 3. Sir Leon Radzinowicz (letter to The Times)
  4. 4. Mr. E. Knapman, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Northamptonshire Probation Service
  5. 5. Correctional Medical Systems Inc. (USA)
  6. 6. Mr. P. E. Ford, Grade VI, Her Majesty's Remand Centre Feltham
  7. 7. Mr. D. Waplington, Head of New Entrant Prison Officer Training, Prison Service College, Wakefield
  8. 8. Mr. A. Booth, Grade VII, Her Majesty's Prison Gloucester
  9. 9. The Detention Corporation Limited
  10. 10. The Magistrates' Association
  11. 11. Mr. P. Turnbull and Mr. P. Quinn, Her Majesty's Remand Centre Risley
  12. 12. Northumbria Probation Service
  13. 13. Central Council of Magistrates' Courts Committees
  14. 14. Justices' Clerks' Society
  15. 15. Mrs. M. McCarey
  16. 16. Trades Union Congress
  17. 17. National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  18. 18. International Hospitals Group Limited
  19. 19. Conservative Group of Councillors on Lewisham Council
  20. 20. Dr. Keith Soothill, Member of Board of Visitors, Her Majesty's Prison Preston
  21. 21. Association of Chief Police Officers
  22. 22. Police Superintendents' Association
  23. 23. National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
  24. 24. West Yorkshire Probation Committee
  25. 25. Bedfordshire Probation Committee
  26. 26. Securicor Limited
  27. 27. National Union of Civil and Public Servants (Lord Chancellor's Department Group)
  28. 28. Berkshire Probation Service
  29. 29. Institute of Psychiatry
  30. 30. Mrs. B. Bingham, Education Officer, HMP Latchmere House
  31. 31. Professor Anthony Bottoms
  32. 32. Association of County Councils
  33. 33. Tarmac Construction
  34. 34. Standing Conference of Clerks to Magistrates' Courts Committees
  35. 35. Home Office Trade Union Side
  36. 36. Board of Visitors Co-ordinating Committee
  37. 37. The Education Department, Her Majesty's prison Holloway
  38. 38. Dr. David Wilson, Her Majesty's prison Grendon
  39. 39. National Association of Probation Officers
  40. 40. Association of Chief Officers of Probation
  41. 41. Howard League for Penal Reform
  42. 42. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation
  43. 43. Mr. John Greenway MP: Selsdon Group Paper
  44. 44. Prison Reform Trust
    45. 191
  45. 45. The Mothers' Union
  46. 46. Prison Governors' Association
  47. 47. Mr. C. Lloyd, Member of Board of Visitors, Her Majesty's prison Sudbury
  48. 48. Mr. T. C. Newell, Governor—Her Majesty's prison and Remand centre Winchester
  49. 49. Police Federation
  50. 50. Lord Chancellor's Department Trade Union Side
  51. 51. United Kingdom Detention Services
  52. 52. The Law Society
  53. 53. London Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility
  54. 54. Metropolitan Police
  55. 55. Prison Officers' Association
  56. 56. Prison Service Chaplaincy
  57. 57. Contract Prisons PLC

And the Boards of Visitors at the following establishments:

  1. 58. HMYCC Aylesbury
  2. 59. HMP Bedford
  3. 60. LIMP Birmingham
  4. 61. HMP Brixton
  5. 62. HMP Cookham Wood
  6. 63. HMYOI Dover
  7. 64. HMP Erlestoke
  8. 65. HMP and YCC Exeter
  9. 66. HMYCC and RC Feltham
  10. 67. HMP and YCC Grendon/HMP Spring Hill
  11. 68. HMYCC Hatfield
  12. 69. HMP Haverigg Camp
  13. 70. HMP Hindley
  14. 71. HMP Holloway
  15. 72. HMP Hull
  16. 73. HMP Latchmere House
  17. 74. HMP Lewes
  18. 75. HMP Leyhill
  19. 76. HMRC Low Newton
  20. 77. HMP Nottingham
  21. 78. HMP Preston
  22. 79. HMP Reading
  23. 80. HMRC Risley
  24. 81. HMP Sudbury
  25. 82. HMP Swaleside

Population of open prisons1 Number of unoccupied places in open prisons1 Number of category D prisoners in closed prisons2 3
Prison service region Male Female Male Female
Midland 849 — 33 — 390
North 958 315 52 35 550
South East 955 75 96 0 600
South West 591 — 3 — 370
TOTAL 3,353 390 184 35 1,910
1 On 9 June 1989. Open young offender institutions are not included.
2 On 31 March 1989, the most recent date for which information is available. The figures are known to contain some inaccuracies.
3 Males only. Females are not categorised in the same way as males.

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was(a) the average daily prison population and (b) the number of places in open prisons each year from 1966 to 1988.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information requested is published annually in the report of the work of the prison service (appendix 4 of the latest issue, for 1987–88, Cm. 516).