These trends also reflect recent scientific advances. Figures for 1999 are due to be published in July. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will announce a scale of charges for checks on the criminal records of volunteers working with children. There are no plans to have a separate scale of charges for volunteers working with children. The information requested is given in the table.
All data cover both industries and farms.
Expenditure data include variable costs and exclude fixed costs. Records are not kept centrally of the number of prisoners without work. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total value of contracts between Prison Service industries and external customers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. The majority of Prison Service sales contracts are with the Ministry of Defence and other Government Departments and are formulated on a framework basis. As such, the value of the contract may not have a direct relationship to actual sales.