Prisons

Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners at HMP Altcourse completed a cognitive behavioural therapy programme in 2001–02; and how the benefits of the programme were evaluated. [113430]

Paul Goggins
No cognitive behavioural therapy programmes were run at Her Majesty's Prison Altcourse in 2001–02. The first cognitive behavioural therapy programmes at Her Majesty's Prison Altcourse started in 2002–03.