HC Deb 15 March 1988 vol 129 cc505-6W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of people held in police or magistrates' court cells in each of the last five years in England and Wales.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Annual averages are given in the table. Further details are published annually in "Prison Statistics England and Wales" at table 1.9 of the latest volume, for 1986 (Cm. 210), a copy of which is in the Library.

Average population of prisoners held in police cells, 1983 to 1987
Number
1983 310
1984 54
1985 45
1986 119
11987 537
1 Provisional.