§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many seizures of alcohol were made in prisons in the last two years, broken down by month; and what estimate his Department has made of the quantity of alcohol produced illicitly within prisons in that period.[144270]
§ Paul GogginsThis information is not recorded centrally and its collection could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
The Prison Service is currently developing an Alcohol Strategy, which is expected to be finalised by March 2004. This will include a system for appropriate data to be collected centrally in order to assist the effective monitoring of performance and security.
§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of(a) men and (b) women received into prisons in the last 12 months have been sentenced to immediate custody following breach of a community order.[144273]
§ Paul GogginsAccording to sentencing data, 7,825 males were sentenced to immediate custody in England and Wales in 2002 following a breach of a community sentence which represents 9 per cent. of prison receptions under sentence during 2002. For females the corresponding figures are 904 and 12 per cent
Information on the numbers received into prison because they have breached a community sentence is not comprehensively recorded in the prisons data, as prisoners may be recorded under the nature of their original offence.
§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many added days were awarded as punishment for(a) drug offences and (b) other disciplinary offences in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 1997; and at what cost.[143384]
§ Paul GogginsInformation on the use of added days awarded as punishment for drugs offences and other disciplinary offences in 1997 to 2002 is published in table 8.5 in Prison Statistics England and Wales, 1997 to 2002.
Copies of Prison Statistics England and Wales are available in the Library
Costs of adjudications are not held centrally