§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were held in police cells in each of the police forces in England and Wales on the last convenient date.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe position on 9 July was as follows:
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Police force Number of prisoners Avon and Somerset 37 Bedfordshire 24 Cambridgeshire 21 Cheshire 38 Cleveland 7 Cumbria 15 Derbyshire 23 Devon and Cornwall 6 Durham 3 Dyfed 19 Essex 42 Gloucestershire 9 Greater Manchester 263 Gwent 17 Hampshire 7 Hertfordshire 24 Humberside 27 Lancashire 74 Leicestershire 23 Lincolnshire 5 Merseyside 85 Metropolitan 140 North Wales 10 North Yorkshire 21 Northamptonshire 27 Northumbria 56 Nottinghamshire 20 South Wales 68 South Yorkshire 34 Staffordshire 10
Police force Number of prisoners Suffolk 15 Surrey 9 Sussex 15 Thames Valley 20 Warwickshire 8 West Mercia 28 West Midlands 31 West Yorkshire 81 Wiltshire 5
§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department paid each police force for holding people in police cells in 1990 and 1991.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe amounts paid to each police force holding prisoners in police cells during 1990 and 1991 are shown in the table.
Police force 1990–91 1991–92 £ £ Avon and Somerset — 2,992,791 Bedfordshire — 596,010 Cambridgeshire — 1,673,619 Cheshire 1,843,386 2,658,450 City of London 38.818 225,689 Cleveland 421,101 376,773 Cumbria 288,643 181,300 Derbyshire 528,641 691,645 Devon and Cornwall — 687,452 Durham 237,793 802,560 Dyfed — 1,437,798 Essex 350,560 1,176,095 Gloucester 62,001 453,446 Greater Manchester 15,931,767 20,522,278 Gwent — 1,236,786 Hampshire — 1,252,012 Hertfordshire 156,124 3,562,244 Humberside 3,309,716 3,309,549 Kent 160,984 1,843,171 Lancashire 3,785,273 6,127,386 Leicestershire 570,304 1,997,202 Lincolnshire 753,405 637,272 Merseyside 2,936,037 2,683,711 Metropolitan 4,786,233 11.316,943 North Wales 303,878 496,536 North Yorkshire — 1,676,589 Norfolk — 634.553 Northamptonshire 237,479 602,855 Northumbria 2,496,433 2,730,444 Nottinghamshire 447,112 610,263 South Wales 624,067 3,138,284 South Yorkshire 2,784,105 3,110,568 Suffolk — 542,205 Surrey — 433,548 Sussex — 320,430 Thames Valley 153,368 1,620,820 Warwickshire 729,730 596,031 West Mercia 386,300 1,294,179 West Midlands 1,812,584 2,823,517 West Yorkshire 6,591,246 5,425,886 Wiltshire — 241,072