§ Mr. SalterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police houses were sold in the periods(a) 1 May 1994 to 30 April 1995, (b) 1 May 1995 to 30 April 1996, (c) 1 May 1996 to 30 April 1997, (d) 1 May 1997 to 30 April 1998, (e) 1 May 1998 to 30 April 1999, (f) 1 May 1999 to 30 April 2000 and (g) since 1 May 2000, (i) in England and Wales, (ii) by Surrey police force, (iii) by Kent county constabulary, (iv) by Thames Valley police force, (v) by Hertfordshire constabulary, (vi) by Essex police force, (vii) by Hampshire constabulary and (viii) by Sussex police force. [151116]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe information requested in respect of the individual police forces has been supplied by those forces. It is as follows:
budget and (b) the budget for education materials for (1) Ford, (2) Altcourse, (3) Brixton, (4) Wormwood Scrubs and (5) Walton prisons expressed as (i) total figures and (ii) expenditure per head for each year from 1997 to 2001. [151928]
§ Mr. Boateng[holding answer 5 March 2001]: The information available is set out in the table and how the spend on (a) education and library service providers and (b) the purchase of education materials for the years 1997–to 1999–2000 and forecast spend for 2000–01. The figures for 1999–2000 and 2000–01 are on a different accounting basis to earlier years in that they do not include Value Added Tax refunds. The information for Altcourse is only available for the 2000 calendar year.
The expenditure per head has been calculated by dividing the costs by the average annual population but because not all prisoners are engaged in education, particularly in the four local prisons which hold large numbers of prisoners on remand, this will not give a realistic indication of the average education spend per prisoner. 133W
11997–98 11998–99 11999–2000 22000–01 Average cost of services per head (£) 686 452 627 511 Average cost of materials per head (£) 48 23 13 14 Liverpool (Walton) Education and library services (£) 310,118 341,823 416,214 423,867 Education materials (£) 22,364 24,047 36,242 65,500 Average population 1,460 1,447 1,420 1,252 Average cost of services per head (£) 212 236 293 339 Average cost of materials per head (£) 15 17 26 52 Wormwood Scrubs Education and library services (£) 274,137 264,243 353,023 425,994 Education materials (£) 15,393 16,709 26,552 18,547 Average population 1,333 1,122 725 794 Average cost of services per head (£) 206 236 487 537 Average cost of materials per head (£) 12 15 37 23 1 Spend 2 Forecast Note:
1999–2000 and 2000–01 services spend includes VAT payments but not refunds.
Altcourse £ Main education contract 453,000 Materials budget 28,000 Librarians 46,000 Books and other publications 20,000 Security supervision 48,700 Total 1595,700 1 For the period 1 January to 31 December 2000. There were no VAT payment and no refunds.