HC Deb 26 May 1994 vol 244 cc266-7W
Ms Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prisons in England and Wales anger management programmes are available to prisoners; and how many prisoners(a) commenced and (b) completed the programme in each prison in (i) 1992–93 and (ii) 1993–94.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from A. J. Butler to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 26 May 1994: The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department about which prisons in England and Wales provide anger management programmes and the numbers of prisoners commencing and completing the programme in each prison. Teams of tutors from the following establishments were trained to run the anger management programme as follows:

1. Between 1 April 1992 and 31 March 1993:

  • HMP Elmley
  • HMP Featherstone
  • HMP Frankland
  • HMP Highdown
  • HMP Leeds
  • HMP Long Lartin
  • HMP Manchester
  • HMP Risley
  • HMYOI Brinsford
  • HMYOI Bullwood Hall
  • HMYOI Dover
  • HMYOI Feltham
  • HMYOI Hollesley Bay
  • HMYOI Huntercombe
  • HMYOI Lancaster Farms
  • HMYOI Moorland
  • HMYOI Onley

2. Between 1 April 1993 and 31 March 1994:

  • HMP Albany
  • HMP Ashwell
  • HMP Belmarsh
  • HMP Birmingham
  • HMP Bullingdon
  • HMP Camp Hill
  • HMP Canterbury
  • HMP Coldingley
  • HMP Full Sutton
  • HMP Highpoint
  • HMP Lincoln
  • HMP Lindholme
  • HMP The Mount
  • HMP Nottingham
  • HMP Parkhurst
  • HMP Ranby
  • HMP Stocken
  • HMP Wakefield
  • HMP Wayland
  • HMP Wandsworth
  • HMP Whatton
  • HMP Woodhill
  • HMP Wormwood Scrubs
  • HMRC Reading
  • HMYOI Aylesbury
  • HMYOI Erlestoke
  • HMYOI Stoke Heath
  • HMYOI Swinfen Hall
The frequency of anger management programmes and numbers of prisoners attending in any given year are not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.