To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what percentage of prisons and young offender institutions reduced their education provision in 1996–97; and what percentage plan to do so in 1997–98; [11508](2) what was the average weekly number of hours spent in education per prisoner in
(a) June and (b) December in (i) 1995, (ii) 1996 and (iii) 1997 to date. [11510]
I will write to my hon. Friend.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hours of education were provided at (a) Holloway, (b) Highpoint, (c) Albany and (d) Wandsworth prisons in (i) 1995–96 and (ii) 1996–97; and what is the planned number in 1997–98. [11509]
Hours of education—defined as daytime education, vocational training courses, construction industry training courses and evening education—at these establishments were:
| Hours | |
| Holloway | |
| 1995–96 (actual) | 90,200 |
| 1996–97 (actual) | 87,500 |
| 1997–98 (planned) | 130,000 |
| Highpoint | |
| 1995–96 (actual) | 194,600 |
| 1996–97 (actual) | 97,000 |
| 1997–98 (planned) | 313,000 |
Hours
| |
Albany
| |
| 1995–96 (actual) | 100,600 |
| 1996–97 (actual) | 56,400 |
| 1997–98 (planned) | 57,000 |
Wandsworth
| |
| 1995–96 (actual) | 118,500 |
| 1996–97 (actual) | 57,400 |
| 1997–98 (planned) | 38,176 |