§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to introduce an exit centre in HM Prison Leeds for people leaving prison, to link addiction, mental health, rehabilitation, education and training procedures inside prison with programmes available outside. [149034]
§ Paul GogginsFunding has been secured for the development of a healthy living centre that will draw upon partnerships with the community to provide better opportunities for prisoners to make informed decisions about lifestyle and healthy living. Community partnerships have also been established to build upon housing and employment provision and to improve the opportunity and quality of education. I would be happy to meet my right hon. Friend to discuss how these projects can help achieve the objectives he outlines.
Female remand population in custody 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Females on remand 383 395 490 491 538 599 704 748 700 775 945 Untried 271 285 351 344 371 396 426 434 396 430 496 Convicted unsentenced 112 110 139 147 167 203 278 313 304 345 449 Convicted unsentenced1 29 28 28 30 31 34 39 42 43 45 47 1 As a percentage of total female population. Note:
The components do not always add to the totals because they have been rounded independently.
The number of female convicted unsentenced prisoners as a percentage of the total female remand population has increased since 1992; showing a similar increase to the number of male convicted unsentenced prisoners as a percentage of the total male remand population. There are many reasons for this increase. For example, arrangements for plea before venue, as made possible by the Criminal Procedures and Investigations Act 1996 and the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, were implemented on 1 October 1997. Plea before venue led to offenders pleading guilty earlier than previously and hence spending less time untried and spending proportionately more time convicted unsentenced.