§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were being held in Brixton prison, unconvicted but on remand awaiting trial, on the date when the three prisoners escaped last December; what offences these unconvicted prisoners had been charged with; and how many had been held in the prison for six months or more.
§ Mr. Mayhew; On 16 December 1980 about 450 persons were in Brixton prison on remand awaiting trial. It is estimated that about 80 of them were first remanded in custody six months or more earlier; some may have 380W spent some of the intervening time on bail. Information on the offences with which remand prisoners are charged is not collected centrally.