HC Deb 04 April 1989 vol 150 cc26-9W
Mr. Moss

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the numbers of category A, B and other prisoners in each prison in England and Wales. listed by prison and by county address.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The latest information readily available centrally is given in the following table.

Prison or remand centre (County) A B C D Not recorded Total population
Cardiff (South Glamorgan) 14 62 16 184 276
Chelmsford (Essex) 1 1 3 3 88 96
Dorchester (Dorset) 31 33 2 17 83
Durham (Durham) 57 287 50 320 714
Exeter (Devon) 21 40 13 130 204
Gloucester (Gloucester) 10 100 36 52 198
Hull (Humberside) 4 29 113 59 34 239
Leeds (West Yorkshire) 3 69 207 44 208 531
Leicester (Leicestershire) 10 28 91 20 37 186
Lewes (East Sussex) 13 49 11 52 125
Lincoln (Lincolnshire) 5 21 196 35 34 291
Liverpool (Merseyside) 3 147 608 53 424 1,235
Manchester (Greater Manchester) 4 100 434 77 248 863
Norwich (Norfolk) 12 120 14 46 192
Oxford (Oxfordshire) 7 51 39 28 125
Pentonville (London) 10 144 47 397 598
Reading (Berkshire) 10 48 19 49 126
Shrewsbury (Salop) 8 83 10 77 178
Swansea (West Glamorgan) 13 51 10 64 138
Wandsworth (London) 22 222 400 51 761 1,456
Winchester (Hampshire) 1 71 158 16 47 293
Wormwood Scrubs (London) 26 52 18 28 271 395
Closed training prisons
Acklington (Northumberland) 394 8 23 425
Albany (Isle of Wight) 63 215 58 3 45 384
Aldington (Kent) 79 20 20 119
Ashwell (Leicestershire) 310 31 24 365
Blantyre House (Kent) 77 1 78
Blundeston (Suffolk) 151 162 36 61 410
Camp Hill (Isle of Wight) 382 41 66 489
Channings Wood (Devon) 457 41 24 522
Coldingley (Surrey) 1 64 151 46 35 297
Dartmoor (Devon) 352 220 26 28 626
Erlestoke (Wiltshire) 3 168 25 15 211
Featherstone (West Midlands) 482 44 11 537
Frankland (Durham) 59 303 17 16 395
Full Sutton (North Yorkshire) 31 147 69 2 7 256
Garth (Lancashire) 207 23 106 336
Gartree (Leicestershire) 50 228 18 13 309
Grendon (Buckinghamshire) 116 71 5 11 203
Haverigg (Cumbria) 246 11 18 275
Highpoint (Suffolk) 384 88 253 725
Lancaster (Lancashire) 234 15 9 258
Lewes (East Sussex) 80 22 3 20 125
Lindholme (South Yorkshire) 527 131 44 702
Littlehey (Cambridgeshire) 403 14 24 441
Long Lartin (Hereford and Worcester) 69 308 12 2 10 401
Maidstone (Kent) 334 144 35 27 540
Northeye (East Sussex) 101 33 89 223
Norwich (Britannia) (Norfolk) 119 36 39 194
Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) 115 154 15 11 295
Parkhurst (Isle of Wight) 42 168 14 1 10 235
Portsmouth (Kingston) (Hampshire) 122 7 5 9 143
Preston (Lancashire) 1 303 19 23 346
Ranby (Nottinghamshire) 331 12 343
Send (Surrey) 62 16 24 102
Shepton Mallet (Somerset) 210 16 13 239
Stafford (Staffordshire) 695 50 53 798
Stocken (Leicestershire) 283 7 4 294
Swaleside (Kent) 171 19 8 194 392
Thorp Arch (West Yorkshire) 126 21 8 155
The Verne (Dorset) 552 20 22 594
Wakefield (West Yorkshire) 70 563 36 17 43 729
Wayland (Norfolk) 362 58 55 475
Wymott (Lancashire) 606 49 71 726

Prison or remand centre (County) A B C D Not recorded Total population
Open training prisons
Ford (West Sussex) 493 493
Highpoint (Suffolk) 69 69
Kirkham (Lancashire) 537 537
Leyhill (Gloucestershire) 370 370
Morton Hall (Lincolnshire) 155 155
North Sea Camp (Lincolnshire) 89 89
Rudgate (West Yorkshire) 305 305
Spring Hill (Buckinghamshire) 199 199
Standford Hill (Kent) 387 387
Sudbury (Derbyshire) 496 496
All prisons and remand centres 470 4,768 12,938 4,922 5,596 28,694
1 The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost.