To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the escape of Mark Ryder from Highpoint HMP. (103711)

I wrote to the hon. Member on7 December.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the Integrated Drug Treatment System funding for drug treatment has been allocated to HMP Peterborough in 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. (105290)

[holding answer 7 December 2006]: The Home Office and the Department of Health are funding £12 million in 2006-07 for improved clinical drug treatment for prisoners. A first wave of 17 prisons was selected to implement the full IDTS programme; and a further 28 prisons selected to utilise the funds to improve drug services. HMP Peterborough was not included in these first 45 prisons.

The first-wave prisons were selected to ensure a spread between geographical areas, male and female prisons and public and contracted prisons; to involve all Government Office and Prison Service regions; and thereby provide a broad base for evaluation. These prisons were also chosen because evidence showed an overriding need to improve the quality of their clinical drug services.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide the figures on released foreign prisoners in Peterborough referred to in the Prime Minister’s oral answer of 11 October 2006, Official Report, column 298. (106781)

I wrote to the hon. Member about this matter on 29 November.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many released prisoners who were not assessed for deportation at the end of their term remain at large. (107203)

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary explained on 9 October to the House that the director general of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate had written to the Home Affairs Committee on that date. In that letter, the director general provided the latest breakdown of the most accurate and robust information that the Department holds on the 1,013 prisoners released without consideration of deportation.

A copy of the letter is available from the Library of the House and a further update will be provided to the Home Affairs Committee early next year.