§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, over the last five years, what percentage of prisoners in English and Welsh prisons on remand have (a) been convicted and (b) been released without imprisonment.
§ Mr. Hurd[pursuant to his reply, 9 April 1984, c. 53.]: The readily available information is given in the following table:
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Receptions of untried and convicted unsentenced prisoners into prison department establishments in England and Wales by type of disposal: 1978–1982 Percentages of total Year of reception Disposal 1978 1979 1980 1981 *1982 Found not guilty or not proceeded against 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 2.7 Given a: Non-custodial sentence† 37.6 37.3 36.3 33.4 30.8 Custodial sentence 51.6 52.2 50.1 52.9 50.3 Not recorded 7.6 7.3 10.4 10.7 16.3 Total remand receptions 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 * Provisional figures † Includes hospital orders, guardianship orders and care orders, under some of which the offender is not released into the community but is committed to a non-penal establishment.