HC Deb 22 October 1992 vol 212 c375W
25. Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have been housed in Cheshire police stations after conviction since 1990.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information available centrally enables me to provide for each month since April 1990 a figure for the average daily total of inmates, both convicted and unconvicted, who should have been in prison but were held instead in police cells in the Cheshire force area. I will arrange for a table, setting out this information, to be placed in theOfficial Report.

On 21 October, the latest date for which information is available there were 27 prisoners in police cells in Cheshire of whom one was convicted and sentenced.

Average daily total of inmates locked out to the Cheshire Constabulary
Month Daily average
April 1990 (w.e.f 9/4/90) 21
May 1990 17
June 1990 10
July 1990 9
August 1990 9
September 1990 13
October 1990 20
November 1990 20
December 1990 20
January 1991 23
February 1991 24
March 1991 24
April 1991 28
May 1991 25
June 1991 26
July 1991 31
August 1991 33
September 1991 33
October 1991 32
November 1991 42
December 1991 36
January 1992 38
February 1992 42
March 1992 47
April 1992 47
May 1992 39
June 1992 40
July 1992 40
August 1992 41
September 1992 36