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Crown Dependencies: Prisons

Volume 503: debated on Monday 11 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders currently being held in prisons in each of the Crown Dependencies are serving sentences for drug-related offences. (309085)

Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK; they are self-governing dependencies of the Crown and have their own directly elected legislative assemblies, administrative, fiscal and legal systems.

The prisons in the Crown Dependencies are the responsibility of the Crown Dependency Governments and not of the Ministry of Justice. Accordingly the Ministry of Justice does not hold the information sought.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he has plans to expand prison capacity in the Crown Dependencies. (309086)

Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK; they are self-governing dependencies of the Crown and have their own directly elected legislative assemblies, administrative, fiscal and legal systems.

Prisons and prison capacity in the Crown Dependencies are the responsibility of the Crown Dependency Governments and not of the Ministry of Justice.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assistance his Department has provided to rehabilitation programmes for drug addicts serving prison sentences in each of the Crown Dependencies in the last 10 years. (309087)

This Department has provided no assistance to rehabilitation programmes for drug addicts serving prison sentences in the Crown Dependencies during the last 10 years. Prisons in the Crown Dependencies are the responsibility of the relevant Island administrations, not the Ministry of Justice.