§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which are the 20 new prisons that are currently planned to be built.
§ Mr. MellorThree new prisons built by the Property Services Agency as part of the prison building programme have already been opened; at Wayland in Norfolk, Stocken in Leicestershire and Thorn Cross in Cheshire. Following work by the Home Office directorate of works, two further prisons were opened in 1985 to relieve acute pressure on the prison system. These were at Lindholme, near Doncaster, and at Morton Hall, in Lincolnshire.
The programme of new PSA prison building further consists of the following 13 establishments which are in construction, in design or planned:
Establishment Location Full Sutton Humberside Littlehey Cambridgeshire Mount Hertfordshire Swaleside Kent Garth Lancashire Brinsford Staffordshire Whitemoor Cambridgeshire Bicester Oxfordshire Woolwich Greater London Lancaster Lancashire Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire Doncaster South Yorkshire Ashford Middlesex As a result of the public expenditure decision announced in January, design work is now also planned to start on two more prisons.
Persons sentenced at Wolverhampton magistrates' court for the offence of unlawful possession of a controlled drug by type of sentence Type of sentence and amount 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Unsuspended sentences of imprisonment Up to and including 1 month — 1 1 1 — 1 Over 1 month up to and including 3 months 1 — — 1 — — Total 1 1 1 2 — 1 Suspended sentences of imprisonment — — — — — — Fines Up to and including £20 1 — 1 3 3 1 Over £20 up to and including £50 9 6 7 6 20 13 Over £50 up to and including £100 — 1 — 1 2 2 Total 10 6 8 10 25 16 Other sentences or orders — 3 4 *6 4 5 Total 11 10 13 18 29 22 * Includes one three months detention centre order.