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<p>The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), announced on 4 September 2013 the next steps to modernise the prison estate so that we always have enough prison places for those sentenced by the courts but at much lower cost and in the right places to deliver our ambitions for reducing our stubbornly high reoffending rates.</p><p>The Government is doing this through a significant programme of replacing accommodation which is old, inefficient or has limited long-term strategic value and by reshaping the rest of the prison estate so that we are able to release offenders closer to home which we know improves their resettlement and reduces reoffending.</p><p>Table 1 details the number of adults and young offenders who were held in HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Northallerton on 30 June 2013 who were previously resident in (1) the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency, (2) the Tees Valley region, which is interpreted as including the four local of authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, (3) the North East and (4) North Yorkshire.</p><p><table><thead><tr><td valign="top">Table1: Data as at 30 June2013<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">18-20<br /></td><td valign="top">21andover—Adult<br /></td><td valign="top">Total<br /></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">(1)Middlesbrough South and East ClevelandConstituency<br /></td><td valign="top">0<br /></td><td valign="top">2<br /></td><td valign="top">2<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">(2)Tees ValleyRegion1<br /></td><td valign="top">0<br /></td><td valign="top">11<br /></td><td valign="top">11<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">(3)National Offender Management Service (NOMS) North EastRegion2<br /></td><td valign="top">2<br /></td><td valign="top">27<br /></td><td valign="top">29<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">(4)NorthYorkshire<br /></td><td valign="top">5<br /></td><td valign="top">40<br /></td><td valign="top">45<br /></td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td valign="top">1The constituency of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is includedin the Tees Valley region. Tees Valley region is made up of the fourlocal authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Clevelandand Stockton- on-Tees.<br />2Tees Valley region is included in the NOMS North EastRegion.<br /></td></tr></tfoot></table></p><p>Information on prisoners' residences is provided by prisoners when being processed on arrival into prison and recorded on a central IT system. Addresses can include a home address, an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or next of kin address and these figures are provided in the answer.</p><p>If no address is given, an offender's committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident. These figures are also included in the answer. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders, these figures are excluded from the answer.</p><p>We have successfully managed previous prison closures to avoid compulsory redundancies. We will aim to achieve this again, either through redeploying staff or offering voluntary early departures. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) will continue to work with the relevant agencies to mitigate the effects of Northallerton's closure.</p><p>The decision to close prisons will only be taken if population levels mean that they can be managed without undermining our ability to hold all those committed to custody by the courts. There is currently unused capacity in the North East and Yorkshire and Humberside regions. NOMS will allocate prisoners currently in Northallerton to other prisons according to their security categorisation, offending behaviour needs and closeness to home.</p><p>Table 2 shows the information for the operational capacity and the prison population of each prison in the NOMS Yorkshire and Humberside region and the NOMS North East region as published on 26 July 2013, which can also be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures</p><p><table><thead><tr><td valign="top">Table2:<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Region<br /></td><td valign="top">Prison<br /></td><td valign="top">Operationalcapacity<br /></td><td valign="top">Population<br /></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">NorthEast<br /></td><td valign="top">Durham<br /></td><td valign="top">990<br /></td><td valign="top">873<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Deerbolt<br /></td><td valign="top">513<br /></td><td valign="top">420<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Frankland<br /></td><td valign="top">808<br /></td><td valign="top">782<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">HolmeHouse<br /></td><td valign="top">1,210<br /></td><td valign="top">1,083<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">KirklevingtonGrange<br /></td><td valign="top">283<br /></td><td valign="top">278<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">LowNewton<br /></td><td valign="top">344<br /></td><td valign="top">272<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Northumberland<br /></td><td valign="top">1,348<br /></td><td valign="top">1,335<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">NorthEasttotal<br /></td><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">5,496<br /></td><td valign="top">5,043<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">YorkshireandHumberside<br /></td><td valign="top">AskhamGrange<br /></td><td valign="top">128<br /></td><td valign="top">99<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Doncaster<br /></td><td valign="top">1,145<br /></td><td valign="top">1,127<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Everthorpe<br /></td><td valign="top">689<br /></td><td valign="top">675<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">FullSutton<br /></td><td valign="top">616<br /></td><td valign="top">588<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Hatfield<br /></td><td valign="top">266<br /></td><td valign="top">255<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Hull<br /></td><td valign="top">762<br /></td><td valign="top">745<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Leeds<br /></td><td valign="top">1,212<br /></td><td valign="top">1,170<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Lindholme<br /></td><td valign="top">930<br /></td><td valign="top">917<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Moorland<br /></td><td valign="top">1,006<br /></td><td valign="top">988<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">NewHall<br /></td><td valign="top">425<br /></td><td valign="top">363<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Northallerton<br /></td><td valign="top">252<br /></td><td valign="top">241<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Wakefield<br /></td><td valign="top">749<br /></td><td valign="top">737<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Wealstun<br /></td><td valign="top">832<br /></td><td valign="top">822<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Wolds<br /></td><td valign="top">360<br /></td><td valign="top">348<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Wetherby<br /></td><td valign="top">276<br /></td><td valign="top">248<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Yorkshireand Humbersidetotal<br /></td><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">9,648<br /></td><td valign="top">9,323<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>All data has been drawn from administrative IT systems, which as with any larger-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> |