Justice

Tuesday 21st December 2010 Ministerial Corrections

Heroin Addiction

[Mr Ainsworth]

24. To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of those serving a prison sentence have been treated for heroin addiction.

[Official Report, 23 November 2010, Vol. 519, c. 287W.]

Letter of correction from Mr Nick Herbert:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the right hon. Member for Coventry North East (Mr Ainsworth) on 23 November 2010. Unfortunately, the answer contained an error relating to the number of heroin users (4,933) that have entered accredited drug treatment programmes in 2009-10. The full answer given was as follows:

[Nick Herbert]

Of those adults remanded or sentenced in 2009-10, 60,067 had clinical interventions for the management of heroin dependence, and 4,933 heroin users entered accredited drug treatment programmes in custody in the same period.

The correct answer should have been:

[Nick Herbert]

Of those adults remanded or sentenced in 2009-10, 60,067 had clinical interventions for the management of heroin dependence, and 4,633 heroin users entered accredited drug treatment programmes in custody in the same period.

National Probation Service: Manpower

[Lisa Nandy]

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation service employees of each grade there were in probation areas on 31 December (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009; and if he will make a statement.

[Official Report, 25 November 2010, Vol. 519, c. 456-58W.]

Letter of correction from Mr Crispin Blunt:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) on 25 November 2010. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the locally purchased extract tool not extracting all of the staff in post figures; in Teesside it excluded one team; in Durham it did not identify when hours of work, and therefore full-time equivalence (FTE), had changed slightly. Therefore, some of the staff in post figures provided for Teesside and Durham within the national figures for December 2009 were incorrect. The full answer given was as follows:

[Mr Blunt]

The staff in post figures for the probation service by job group at 31 December 2006-2009 are shown in the following table.

The table shows that there was an overall decrease in staff in post over the period of 1,339.26 FTE (down 6.3%).

[Mr Blunt]

The staff in post figures for the probation service by job group at 31 December 2006-09 are shown in the following table.

The table shows that there was an overall decrease in staff in post over the period of 1,315.99 FTE (down 6.2%).