§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of(a) men and (b) women, who were on rule 43 in prisons in England and Wales on 17 April. [19953]
§ Mr. Nicholas BakerResponsibility 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.
£000 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 (provisional) Home Office (excluding HM Prison Service, the Forensic Science and the Fire Service College) 3,944 3,758 2,646 HM Prison Service1 237,500 29,830 18,189 Forensic Science Service n/a 96 71 Fire Service College 10 nil nil 1 Prison Service figures cover payments made centrally but exclude payments made locally. 2 Figure includes repayable advances of salary which cannot be identified centrally. At the Fire Service college, there were two claims in 1992–93 involving amounts of £5,774 and £4,241. The average was £5,007.
It is not possible to identify the highest claims that were concluded and settled in any one year or the average amount of each claim in any one year in other parts of the Home Office without disproportionate cost.