HC Deb 20 June 2002 vol 387 c539W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much the Department has spent on staff training and development in each of the last five years. [61057]

Jane Kennedy

The amount of money spent on direct training over the last five years was:

£
1997–98 693,445
1998–99 873,260
1999–2000 1,057,797
2000–01 1,290,625
2001–02 1,166,365

Key targets 1999–2000 to 2002–03
Key business area 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03
Safety Breaches of order and control do not exceed 7.1 per 100 prisoners. Number of incidents of assault by prisoners on staff less than five per 100 prisoners Number of staff assaulted by prisoners is less than a ratio of 6.8 per 100 prisoners Number of staff assaulted by prisoners is less than a ratio of six per 100 prisoners
Number of incidents of assault by prisoners on prisoners less than 9.5 per 100 prisoners Number of prisoners assault by prisoners is less than a ratio 8.8 per 100 prisoners Number of prisoners assault by prisoners is less than a ratio 8.8 per 100 prisoners
Regimes and reducing re-offending 50 per cent. uptake on sentence planning in Maghaberry and Magilligan Prisons 50 per cent. uptake on sentence planning in Maghaberry and Magilligan Prisons 60 per cent. uptake on sentence planning Maghaberry and Magilligan Prisons An average minimum of 70 per cent. of prisoners serving six months or more, including 90 per cent. of life sentence prisoners, is working to a sentence plan An average of at least 18 hours constructive activity per week for each sentenced prisoner
3 per cent. increase in average constructive activity hours 80 per cent. utilisation of available places in education and workshop Establish baselines for weekly average hours of constructive activity attendance per prisoner for each prisoner group and set targets and systems of measurement for 2002–03 An average of at least 9.5 hours constructive activity per week for each remand prisoner