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Written Answers
SE TULY 1993
Mr. Peter Lloyd: The available information is for 1991. A total of 258 males and 136 females were received into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales for defaulting on a fine after conviction for operating a television without a licence; and 17,740 males and $40 females were received for fine default foliowing other offences.
Hong Kong
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposal he has to grant full British citizenship to members of non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong who will be without a right of abode elsewhere after 1997; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle: My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans for new legislation to provide Briush citizenship for this group. All British members of the non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong will be entitled to retain or acquire an appropriate form of British nationality after 1997 and will be assured of full British consular protection. They are guaranteed the right of abode in Hong Kong, and the Government have given an assurance, repeated on many occasions, that if, against all expectations, members of this group came under pressure to leave Hong Kong and had nowhere else to go, the Government of the day would be expected to consider with considerable and particular sympathy their case for admission to the United Kingdom.
Mr. Mark Jarvis
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the report of the Winsom Green prison security department on the suitability of Mark Jarvis for home leave.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Mr. D. Lewis to Ms Lynne Jones, daied 26 July 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the publication of the report on the suitability of Mr. Mark Jarvis for home leave.
Written Answers
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In considering applications for home leave, the home leave board will receive reports from a number of sources, including staff responsible for security. In the case of Mr. Jarvis, the home leave board considered these reports which, with the exception of the security report, indicated that his recent behaviour was much improved and that he had shown & marked change since arriving at Birmingham in 1991. In view of his history, the board decided that the decision should be deferred and further reports commissioned about the suitability of the place he tended to stay. His good behaviour continued over the nextwo months and the board was advised that his home leave address was suitable. The social services were also consulted, and his home leave was approved.
The report from the security department at Birmingham had referred to his criminal record, his failure on temporary release the year before and his having been refused four applications for parole. The report was compiled by a prison officer and expressed the view that Mr. Jarvis was not suitable for home leave at the time, but having taken that repart into consideration, alongside other reports of a more positive nature, the bome leave board decided he should be released,
I am very concerned about any temporary release failure. The procedures were changed in October last year to improve the effectiveness of risk assessment. A further review is currently in progress. I have also written recently to all Governors to remind them of the need for great care before relcasing a prisoner for home leave and reminding them to exercise caution in favour of public safety. It is right to refuse any application where there is doubt about a prisoner's likely behaviour while at liberty. Good behaviour in prison is a factor to be taken into account when considering a request for bome leave, but the protection of the public has to be the overriding factor.
Alcohol
Mr. Ievan Wyn Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many persons under the age of 18 years were found guilty or cautioned for buying intoxicating liquor within each police force area in Wales in each of the last three years; and how many licensees were found guilty or cautioned for selling intoxicating liquor to persons aged under 18 years;
(2) how many children and young people under the age of 18 years have been found guilty or cautioned for offences of drunkenness within each police force area in Waics in each of the last three years.
Mr. Maclean: The information requested is given in the tables. Data for 1992 will not be available until the
autumn.
Table A
Persons found guilty or cautioned under the Licensing Act 1964 by police force area in Wales 1989-91
Police force area
Year
Found guilty
Cautioned
Found guilty or cautioned
Persons under 18 buying intoxicating liquor) Dyfed-Powys
1989 1990
3
1991
Gwent
1989
1990
37
1991
00 tho
North Wales
1989
32
1990
15
1991
South Wales
1989
1990
1991
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23
27
10
392
23
30
10
53
61
54
91
46
47
60
78
93
31
52
76
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92
36
60
82
21
21
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