§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 26 October,Official Report, column 453, if he will list the budgets under which the prison catering contracts were let and administered together with the value of each contract.
§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 6 November 1992]: The budgets under which the prison catering contracts were let and administered are as follows:—
- E(1)—Directorate of Inmate Administration running costs.
- F(1)—Directorate of Inmate Programmes running costs.
- G(1)—Direcorate of Custody running costs.
The value of individual contracts is regarded as commercial in confidence. Prison catering contracts were awarded in the range from £268,856.00 to £404,988.00.
Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area Violence against the person Number of offences Police force area July 1988 to June 1989 July 1989 to June 1990 July 1990 to June 1991 July 1991 to June 1992 Avon and Somerset 4,330 5,170 5,537 5,321 Bedfordshire 2,009 2,062 2,102 1,804 Cambridgeshire 1,773 2,326 2,431 2,628 Cheshire 2,546 2,513 2,496 2,641 Cleveland 2,493 2,535 2,747 2,664 Cumbria 1,617 1,794 1,963 1,873 Derbyshire 3,136 3,379 3,708 3,958 Devon and Cornwall 3,719 3,729 3,621 3,809 Dorset 1,297 1,460 1,566 1,480 Durham 2,317 2,416 2,065 2,345 Essex 4,017 3,940 3,929 4,201 Gloucestershire 1,225 1,362 1,566 1,570 Greater Manchester 9,549 9,160 8,879 9,914 Hampshire 3,858 4,293 4,193 5,186 Hertfordshire 1,856 1,773 1,727 1,892 Humberside 5,590 5,541 5,031 5,141 Kent 3,548 3,754 3,839 5,129 Lancashire 3,041 3,131 2,966 3,198 Leicestershire 2,664 3,015 3,163 3,572 Lincolnshire 1,639 2,007 2,135 2,099 City of London 211 223 173 226 Merseyside 5,185 5,114 5,542 6,811 Metropolitan Police District 29,017 33,710 36,947 38,503 Norfolk 1,805 1,862 1,956 1,854 Northamptonshire 2,180 2,111 2,001 2,212 Northumbria 5,241 5,413 5,712 6,023 North Yorkshire 1,702 1,892 2,095 2,115 Nottinghamshire 6,600 7,558 7,542 7,994 South Yorkshire 4,674 4,933 4,720 4,776 Staffordshire 4,983 5,263 5,367 5,683 Suffolk 1,663 1,724 1,785 1,974 Surrey 1,762 1,640 1,845 1,882 Sussex 2,982 3,346 3,240 3,237 Thames Valley 4,429 4,471 4,451 4,754 Warwickshire 1,141 1,116 1,091 1,278 West Mercia 2,919 3,439 3,144 3,259 West Midlands 9,050 9,767 10,435 11,415 West Yorkshire 8,708 8,949 9,692 10,038 Wiltshire 1,795 2,138 2,118 2,488 England 158,271 170,029 175,520 186,947 Dyfed-Powys 1,375 1,574 1,955 2,107 Gwent 1,963 2,131 2,022 2,323 North Wales 2,263 2,278 2,401 2,608 South Wales 4,218 4,496 4,537 5,519 Wales 9,819 10,479 10,915 12,557 England and Wales 168,090 180,508 186,435 199,504