§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of the prison population were(a) remanded and (b) sentenced prisoners in each month from April to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility 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 Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 24 October 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking what percentage of the prison population were (a) remanded and (b) sentenced prisoners in each month from April to the latest available date.The attached table shows this information for the last day of each month, from April to August 1994.
Percentage of prison population by type of custody: England and Wales, April—August 19941 2 Percentage on remand Percentage sentenced 1994 April 25 74 May 26 73 June 26 73 July 25 74 August 26 73 1Figures relate to last day of month. They include prisoners held in police cells. 2Non-criminal prisoners account for about 1 per cent. of the total prison population and are excluded from both the remand and sentenced.
§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons in which no drug rehabilitation programmes are available.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility 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 Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 24 October 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question on the availability of drug rehabilitation programmes in prisons.All Prison Service establishments provide prisoners with access to a range of services including education, treatment and counselling 488W for drug misuse via the prison health care centre, the probation service or outside drug agencies.As part of the new Prison Service drugs strategy, to be launched in the near future, all prison governors will be required to develop and implement local drug strategies which will form part of their contract with their area manager. These local strategies will include additional provision for education, treatment and throughcare services for prisoners who misuse, have misused or are potential misusers of drugs.
§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of prisoners with access to 24-hour sanitation, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility 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 Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 24 October 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of prisoners with access to 24 hour sanitation.At the end of September 1994, 94 per cent. of prison places, or approximately 47,000 prisoners, had access to night sanitation.
§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) prison workshops and (b) farms and gardens enterprises there are in operation at the latest available date; and in which prisons they are.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility 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 Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 24 October 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of workshops and farms and gardens enterprises there are in operation in each prison.I enclose a list of all prisons in England and Wales having workshops, arranged in alphabetical order and a separate list of Farms and Gardens activities arranged in enterprises. There are 240 workshops in all, at 98 prison establishments. All establishments have a grounds maintenance enterprise; 38 have major agricultural and horticultural enterprises; in addition, approximately 24 establishments have smaller scale horticultural production units.489W
Prison Farms and Gardens Enterprises Establishment Enterprise All establishments Amenity/sports areas Dartmoor Quarrying Dartmoor Beef Guys Marsh Hatfield Onley Stocken Ford Compost Camphill Dairy—Milk Dartmoor East Sutton Park Everthorpe Featherstone Hatfield Newell Grange Hollesley Bay Colony Kirkham Littlehey 490W
Prison Farms and Gardens Enterprises Establishment Enterprise New Hall Rochester Stocken The Verne Usk/Prescoed Werrington East Sutton Park Dairy—Mozzarella Cheese Guys Marsh Dairy—replacement stock Leyhill Portland Swinfen Hall Askham Grange Field Scale Vegetables— Everthorpe Featherstone Ford Green vegetables, roots and potatoes Hatfield Haverigg Hewell Grange Hollesley Bay Colony Kirkham Lindholme Morton Hall Northallerton North Sea Camp Portland Ranby Rudgate Stanford Hill Swinfen Hall The Vern Thorn Cross Usk/Prescoed Whatton Wymott Albany Glasshouses/Polytunnels— Ashwell Blantyre House Blundeston Salad items, pot plants and floral decorations Bullingdon Bullwood Hall Camphill Channings Wood Coldingley Drake Hall East Sutton Park Erlestoke Featherstone Ford Frankland Glen Parva Grendon/Springhill Gury Marsh Haslar Haverigg Hewell Grange Highdown Highpoint Hindley Hollesley Bay Colony Holme House Huntercombe/Finnamore Wood Kirkham Leyhill 491W
Prison Farms and Gardens Enterprises Establishment Enterprise Lindholme Morton Hall New Hall Northallerton North Sea Camp Norwich Onley Portland Pucklechurch Ranby Rochester Rudgate Send Standford Hill Stocken Glasshouses/Polytunnels— Styal Sudbury/Foston Salad items, pot plants and floral decorations Swinfen Hall The Verne Thorn Cross Wellingborough Werrington Wetherby Whatton Hollesley Bay Colony Horses—Suffolk Punches Highpoint Jam factory—Jam and marmalade Full Sutton Wayland Machinery repairs—Mowers, farm equipment and 4-wheel trucks Ford Nursery stock—Trees and shrubs Blundeston Pigs— Everthorpe Hatfield Bacon and pork Haverigg Hewell Grange Hollesley Bay Colony Kirkham New Hall North Sea Camp Portland Rochester Standford Hill Stocken Swinfen Hall The Verne Usk/Prescoed Lindholme Poultry—Eggs Dartmoor Sheep Featherstone Gartree North Sea Camp Hollesley Bay Colony Vegetable preparation units Kirkham Leyhill
Prison Farms and Gardens Enterprises Establishment Enterprise Lindholme Standford Hill Hafield Stocken Cereal East Sutton Park Vineyard Usk Sawmill Everthorpe Woodland Dartmoor Fea therstone Swinfen Hall Huntercombe Hollesley Bay All establishments 21 enterprises