§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 9 June 2000,Official Report, column 394W, on prisons, if he will give details of the RESPOND programme including the training required and the amount of training undertaken to date; if he will give details of the targets set for training in this area; and if he will make a statement. [126558]
§ Mr. BoatengThe RESPOND programme is designed to promote racial equality for staff and prisoners, it consists of five main strategies
confronting harassment and discrimination;ensuring fairness in recruitment, appraisal, promotion and selection;developing and supporting minority ethnic staff;ensuring equal opportunities for minority ethnic prisoners; and recruiting minority ethnic staff.To confront racial harassment and discrimination the RESPOND programme highlights the need for mandatory racial harassment training for all staff. I referred in the reply I gave the hon. Gentleman on 9 June 2000, Official Report, column 394W, to the current position against the target set for completion of this training.
To ensure fairness in recruitment, appraisal, promotion and selection the RESPOND programme highlights the need to review training for assessors and promotion board members. Assessors are provided with training at Job Simulation and Assessment Centres at every assessment event. This affords a unique opportunity to update any training they may have previously received. Training is mandatory for staff acting as promotion board members. Training for promotion board members has been reviewed. A new training course entitled Recruitment, Promotion and Selection Interviewing is being piloted. Delivery of the course and its content will be continually evaluated.
To ensure equal opportunities for minority ethnic prisoners, the RESPOND programme highlights the need to review the race relations training provided to Prison Officers including that contained in their basic training. The provision of local race relations training to all staff working in prisons is mandatory. As far as practicable, this training should be repeated every three years. In the period between the 1996–97 and 1998–99 financial years, there was a steady increase in the delivery of this training 94W with 3,594, 4,157 and 5,617 staff trained in each year. A new local race relations training pack was launched earlier this year which will further encourage the delivery of this training. The Prison Service Order 2800 Race Relations was strengthened in February 2000 to require the Governing Governor or Deputy Governor to chair the Race Relations Management Team. To enable this, a training course is being provided in partnership with the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. These courses will be completed in July 2000. A consultation phase has begun as part of a review of the basic training provided to Prison Officers with a view to introducing a new course. In the 1999–2000 financial year, 1,122 new Prison Officers undertook basic training. It is anticipated that during the 2000–01 financial year 1,400 new Prison Officers will require basic training.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the date each report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons was(a) received by the Home Office and (b) published, in each of the last two years; and if he will list those reports which are currently with his Department, but are yet to be published and the date they were received. [126557]
§ Mr. BoatengThe information is given in the table.
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Reports submitted to Home Secretary from 13 June 1998 to 13 June 2000 Establishment Received Published Establishment Reports Gloucester1 12 May 1998 17 June 1998 Wellingborough1 12 May 1998 18 June 1998 Winchester1 22 April 1998 24 June 1998 Shrewsbury1 21 April 1998 1 July 1998 The Mount1 12 May 1998 10 July 1998 The Verne1 2 June 1998 29 July 1998 Long Lartin1 5 June 1998 17 August 1998 Bedford1 7 July 1998 9 September 1998 Werrington 3 July 1998 23 September 1998 Stafford 16 July 1998 24 November 1998 Everthorpe 30 July 1998 13 October 1998 Belmarsh 31 July 1998 8 October 1998 Eastwood Park 11 August 1998 29 September 1998 Highpoint 12 August 1998 29 September 1998 Woodhill 12 August 1998 2 October 1998 North Sea Camp 29 September 1998 8 January 1999 Birmingham 16 October 1998 13 January 1999 Albany 15 December 1998 12 March 1999 Blakenhurst 10 December 1998 16 February 1999 Chelmsford 18 December 1998 9 March 1999 Aylesbury 11 August 1998 28 October 1998 Haslar 11 September 1998 11 December 1998 Nottingham 13 August 1998 2 December 1998 Sudbury 17 August 1998 16 October 1998 Norwich 28 September 1998 16 December 1998 Thorn Cross 16 October 1998 12 January 1999 Kirkham 7 December 1998 5 March 1999 Askham Grange 16 December 1998 2 March 1999 Feltham 17 December 1998 8 February 2000 The Wolds 9 December 1998 16 April 1999 Doncaster 8 January 1999 30 March 1999 Leicester 30 January 1999 18 March 1999 Brockhil 13 February 1999 28 April 1999 Elmley 14 January 1999 19 March 1999 The Weare 25 January 1999 21 April 1999 Styal 3 February 1999 14 May 1999 Risley 3 February 1999 14 May 1999 Hindley 3 February 1999 29 April 1999 Lincoln 24 February 1999 22 April 1999 Liverpool 19 March 1999 17 June 1999 Wymott 12 April 1999 22 July 1999 New Hall 15 April 1999 16 July 1999
Reports submitted to Home Secretary from 13 June 1998 to 13 June 2000 Establishment Received Published Highdown 10 May 1999 13 July 1999 Huntercombe 12 May 1999 16 July 1999 Wormwood Scrubs 24 May 1999 28 June 1999 Reading 18 June 1999 8 October 1999 Exeter 29 June 1999 12 August 1999 Bristol 7 June 1999 20 July 1999 Bullwood Hall 16 August 1999 27 October 1999 Preston 16 August 1999 15 October 1999 Parc 30 July 1999 14 October 1999 Swansea 14 September 1999 21 December 1999 Foston Hall 29 September 1999 15 February 2000 Wandsworth 13 October 1999 17 December 1999 Hatfield 14 September 1999 2 December 1999 Wayland 23 September 1999 2 November 1999 Hollesley BC 29 September 1999 8 December 1999 Rochester 27 October 1999 21 January 2000 Onley 27 October 1999 4 February 2000 Guys Marsh 15 October 2000 14 January 2000 Feltham 25 November 2000 8 February 2000 Dorchester 15 November 2000 28 January 2000 Pentonville 6 January 2000 5 April 2000 Portland 11 January 2000 21 March 2000 Altcourse 24 January 2000 19 April 2000 Werrington 6 January 2000 1 March 2000 Ashwell 21 January 2000 5 April 2000 Lowdham Grange 24 January 2000 27 April 2000 Glen Parva 9 February 2000 10 May 2000 Belmarsh 4 February 2000 4 May 2000 Littlehey 4 February 2000 11 April 2000 Brockhill 31 January 2000 15 March 2000 Buckley Hall 9 February 2000 — CSCs 9 February 2000 22 March 2000 Shepton Mallet 22 March 2000 9 May 2000 Blantyre House 21 March 2000 — Wormwood Scrubs 14 April 2000 — Eastwood Park 19 April 2000 — Lindholme 27 April 2000 — Lewes 23 May 2000 — Low Newton 25 May 2000 — Featherstone 6 June 2000 — Usk 7 June 2000 — Channings Wood 8 June 2000 — Other Reports Lifer Thematic — 6 April 1999 Annual Report 1997–98 23 February 1999 14 April 1999 Suicide Thematic 6 April 1999 19 May 1999 Annual Report 1998–99 7 April 2000 13 June 2000 1Submitted prior to 13 June 1998 but published after that date
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) on 8 May 2000,Official Report, column 302–05W, on the number of prisoners in work, (a) if he will break down the work undertaken by the 162 prisoners at HMP Coldingley engaged in other occupations and the 215 prisoners engaged in prison maintenance work, (b) if there are further prisoners engaged in work at HMP Kirklevington and HMP Mount and (c) what the reasons are for the figure of 223 prisoners engaged in wing cleaning work at HMP Usk; and if he will make a statement.[126543]
§ Mr. BoatengThe breakdown of prisoner occupation for Coldingley is set out in the table. Other occupations include offending behaviour programmes, induction and community service.
96WKirklevington is a resettlement prison and in addition to the numbers of prisoners employed as shown in my reply to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and the Weald (Miss Widdecombe), on 8 May 2000, Official Report, columns 302–05W the remainder either attend college courses or are employed by companies outside the establishment.
At The Mount more up-to-date information shows an additional 40 prisoners employed in the categories shown in my reply to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and the Weald (Miss Widdecombe), on 8 May 2000, Official Report, columns 302–05W. The remainder are occupied on offending behaviour programmes, basic and key skills education and physical education courses.
The figures given for Usk in my reply to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and the Weald (Miss Widdecombe), on 8 May 2000, Official Report, columns 302–05W cover both Usk and Prescoed. There were 20 prisoners engaged on wing cleaning. The remaining 203 were engaged on craft work, education and offending behaviour programmes and should have been shown under "other occupations".
Number Other occupations 142 Orderlies 15 Prison maintenance 5 Total 162 Non-Prison Enterprise Services workshops 7 Prison Enterprise Services workshops 168 Kitchen 17 Wing cleaners 23 Total 215
§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe), on 8 May 2000,Official Report, column 305–07W, on prison workshops, for what reasons HMPs Kirklevington, Usk, Wayland and Weare were not included; and if he will make a statement.[126541]
§ Mr. BoatengKirklevington, Usk and Weare prisons were not included in the answer because there are no industrial workshops at these establishments.
The average length of the working week for Wayland prison is 16 hours.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons, by prison category, which have received additional funding for special projects under funding made available through the Comprehensive Spending Review; if he will give details of the projects; and if he will make a statement.[126553]
§ Mr. BoatengDetails of prisons, by prison category which have received additional funding through the comprehensive spending review have been placed in the Library.
97WThe tables that have been placed in the Library show allocation of funding through the Comprehensive Spending Review for 1999–2000 and 2000–01 respectively.
Allocations for 1999–2000 are split into categories as follows:
bail information schemes funding to improve prisoners' access to and quality of bail information;education funding to expand education provision to include delivery of accredited basic skills;offending behaviour programmes funding to increase the number of accredited offending behaviour programmes delivered;drugs—funding to implement the prison service Drug Strategy, to provide treatment for drug misusers and measures to reduce the supply of drugs into prisons;welfare to work—funding to develop schemes to improve offenders' access to employment; andjuvenile estate—funding to provide a distinct under 18 estate, with a regime tailored to the population.Allocations for 2000–01 are split into allocations for 'drugs' and 'other'.The information in the tables is set out by prison by current prison category. The prisons are grouped by area and separately for 1999–2000 and for 2000–01 reflecting changes in Prison Service areas.