Justice written question – answered at on 23 April 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) which prisons made available the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme to prisoners with drug addictions in the latest period for which figures are available;
(2) how many prisoners with drug addictions enrolled on the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme in the year for which figures are available;
(3) what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) Building Skills for Recovery, (b) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO), (c) P-ASRO for Women, (d) Short Duration, (e) FOCUS, (f) Prison Partnership 12 Step, (g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community, (h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust 12 Step and (i) Bridge programme available to prisoners with drug addictions in the latest period for which figures are available.
Details of the prison establishments where the specified programmes were available in the last quarter of 2011-12 are set out as follows:
(a) Building Skills for Recovery (BSR):
Altcourse
Aylesbury
Bedford
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Durham
Holloway
Leicester
Lincoln
Moorland Closed
Norwich
Onley
Peterborough
Portland
Preston
Sheppey Cluster
Stafford
Styal
(b) and (c) Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO) programme and P-ASRO for Women:
Chelmsford
Dartmoor
Deerbolt
Durham
Featherstone
Forest Bank
Haverigg
Highpoint North
Highpoint South
Isle of Wight Cluster
Kennet
Lewes
Lindholme
Manchester
Northumberland
Parc
Portland
Ranby
Risley
Rochester
Sheppey Cluster
Wayland
Weal stun
Winchester
(d) Short Duration programme:
Altcourse
Belmarsh
Bullingdon
Chelmsford
Doncaster
Downview
Forest Bank
Hewell
Holloway
Hull
Leeds
Liverpool
Northallerton
Nottingham
Pentonville
Peterborough
Reading
Sheppey Cluster
Swansea
Wandsworth
Winchester
Woodhill
Wormwood Scrubs
(e) FOCUS programme:
Frankland
Wakefield
Whitemoor
(f) Prison Partnership 12-step programme:
Erlestoke
(g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community programme:
Blundeston
Dovegate
Garth
Gartree
Grendon
Holme House
Send
Wymott
(h) Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt) 12-Step programme:
Bullingdon
Coldingley
Everthorpe
Littlehey
Send
Sheppey Cluster
Springhill
Wandsworth
(i) Bridge programme:
Everthorpe
Wandsworth
This information has been taken from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Interventions Directory and that although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and delivery may be subject to change.
Figures for the number of starts for the specified programmes in 2010-11 are set out as follows.
Programme | Starts in 2010-11 |
(a) Building Skills for Recovery (BSR) | 161 |
(b) P-ASRO | 2,764 |
(c) P-ASRO for Women | 82 |
(d) Short Duration Programme | 4,639 |
(e) FOCUS programme | 97 |
(f) Prison Partnership 12-step programme | 133 |
(g) Prisons Partnership Therapeutic Community | 235 |
(h) RAPt 12-Step—Substance Dependency(1) | 598 |
(i) Bridge programme | 59 |
Grand total | 8,768 |
(1) Details for the RAPt 12-Step Alcohol Dependency programme have been excluded from the figures that have been provided as the question was specific related to the provision of programmes to drug-addicted prisoners. |
Please note that this is the latest period for which the requested data are available, and differs from the period for the information provided in response to the previous question about the provision of programmes.
The costs associated with running the programmes specified in the question are not collated centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost, by obtaining information held in local and national data systems, validating it, collating it in a common format and then calculating the overall costs in order to provide a response.
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