§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for each police authority area in Yorkshire and Humberside and for England as a whole(a) how many bail hostel places were provided by the probation service at 31 December 1991, (b) what the average number of residents in these bail hostels was in 1991 and (c) how many convictions were recorded in 1991 of people who were resident in a bail hostel at the time of the offence for which they were convicted.
§ Mr. Jack[holding answer 7 July 1992]: As at 31 December 1991 there were 26 bail and 82 probation/bail hostels in England as a whole, providing 559 bail and 1,782 probation/bail places. Of these, 19 probation/bail places were provided by Humberside, 22 bail and 122 probation/bail places by south Yorkshire, and 45 bail and 95 probation/bail places by west Yorkshire. There are currently no hostels in north Yorkshire.
Statistics on the average number of residents are collected in terms of percentage occupancy. The 1991 figures, against 74.6 per cent. for England as a whole, are Humberside 64.3 per cent.; south Yorkshire 76.5 per cent.: west Yorkshire 83.0 per cent.
Information on the addresses of offenders at the time their offences were committed is not collected centrally.