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the regular global audience for World Service broadcasts in all languages, outside the United Kingdom, is in the region. of 130 million. This figure does not include any information on audiences in certain countries, such as China, Burma and Vietnam, where reliable data are not available.
Mr. Alfred Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what funding has been made available to the BBC World Service in (a) 1991-92, (b) 1992-93 and (c) 1993-94.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory: The total grants-in-aid to the BBC World Service were £156-75 million in 1991-92 and £166.91 million in 1992-93. The total provision for 1993-94 is £175-87 million. These figures include the Ministry of Defence contribution to BBC Monitoring.
HOME DEPARTMENT
London Prisons
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to meet governors of London prisons to outline his policy on prison matters; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: My right hon. and learned Friend currently has no plans to meet governors of London prisons. On 3 November he made a speech about imprisonment to the prison service conference, to which senior governors were invited.
Mr. Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to extend privatisation and market testing in the prison service in London.
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 D. Lewis to Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, dated 30 November 1993:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply directly to your recent Question about privatisation and market testing in the Prison Service in London.
As the then Home Secretary announced on 16 February, the court escort and custody service in the Metropolitan Police District is to be contracted out in 1994. The contracted service will be phased in beginning in July 1994. The other identified candidates for market testing in the Prison Service in London are the work of the Parole Board Secretariat, some registry work and some information technology work. Consideration is being given to what further candidates might be added.
You will also be aware of the Home Secretary's announcement on 2 September that about 10 per cent. of prisons, twelve in all, will be managed by the private sector. No decision has been made as to whether any of these establishments will be in London.
Secure Training Centres
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the time scale for the building of the proposed secure training centres; and where the centres are to be located.
Mr. Maclean: The creation of secure training centre places will start as soon as possible after the necessary
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legislation has been enacted. The Government hav announced their intention to introduce such legislation in this Session of Parliament. No final decisions have been taken about where secure training centres will be located.
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department intends to issue on the referral of juvenile offenders to the proposed secure training centres.
Mr. Maclean: The secure training order will be a sentence of the court. The statutory criteria for the order will be set out in the forthcoming criminal justice Bill.
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how his Department will monitor and run the proposed secure training centres; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean: Secure training centres are to be provided by agreements with organisations from the public, private or voluntary sectors following a process of competitive tendering. A draft specification issued on 30 July to potential providers indicated the likely require- ments of the type of regime operating in the centres. Arrangements for monitoring regimes in these centres will be included in legislation which I will shortly be introducing.
Murder (Life Sentences)
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instigate a review to consider changing the law in respect of mandatory life sentences for murder; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean: We have no plans to instigate such a review.
Racial Offences
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of prosecutions for incitement to racial hatred (a) in each year since 1965 under section 5(1)(a) of the Public Order Act 1986 and (b) for each year since 1987 under sections 17 to 23 of the Public Order Act 1986; how many of these prosecutions have been successful in each relevant year under each Act; and how many prosecutions under each Act in each relevant year have been against ethnic minority individuals or groups.
Mr. Maclean: I will write to the hon. Member.
Football Offences
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of prosecutions for each relevant year to date under section 3 of the Football (Offences) Act 1991; and how many of these in each year have been successful.
Mr. Maclean: In England and Wales in 1991 there were six prosecutions under section 3 of the Football Offences Act 1991, five of which resulted in a conviction. For 1992-which is provisional-there were 31 prosecutions under section 3 of the aforesaid Act which resulted in 17 convictions.
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