Mrs. RenéeShort asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what subjects in the compulsory education periods in (a) Send and (b) New Hall detention centres taught 18 monthe ago before the introduction of the new régimes are now no longer taught.
§ Mr. MayhewAt Send classes in enamelling, art, crafts, pottery, soft toy making and stone polishing; and at New Hall classes in art, crafts and woodcraft and swimming classes outside the centre. They were replaced by woodwork at Send, and by woodwork and metalwork at New Hall.
Mrs. RenéeShort asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what evidence there is that the new regimes at Send and New Hall have led to a lower reconviction rate than in other institutions; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MayhewWe hope that a report on the formal evaluation programme—including information about reconvictions during the first year after release of persons discharged from New Hall, Send and four other detention centres between June and December 1980—will be available by early 1983.