§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were held in custody in metropolitan police stations for the latest available date; and, of those, how many were subsequently (i) charged and (ii) released without charge.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThis information is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Home -Department if he will supply in relation to section 62 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for the Metropolitan police district (i) the total number of notices to prisoners handed to people in custody in metropolitan police stations for the latest available period and (ii) a breakdown of the total by (a) notification of arrest given to person named, (b) notification of arrest not requested and (c) notification of arrest delayed.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe information available centrally relates to the total number of people arrested and the number of cases in which there was a delay in excess of four hours, or of 24 hours, before action was taken to notify a person nominated under section 62 of the Criminal 159W Law Act 1977. Statistics for 1983 by police force area were published in Home Office "Statistical Bulletin", issue 9/84 on 19 April 1984, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.