§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners, having failed to return from authorised leave, are on the run from Buckley Hall prison; and what are the equivalent average figures for other prisons. [18116]
§ Miss Widdecombe[holding answer 29 February 1996]: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Pearson to Ms Liz Lynne, dated 6 March 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about how many prisoners, having failed to return from authorised leave, are on the run from Buckley Hall prison, and what are the equivalent average figures for other prisons.246WThe number of prisoners who failed to return from authorised leave from HM Prison Buckley Hall from its date of opening on 14 December 1994 until 26 February 1996 and who are still unlawfully at large is 10.The equivalent average figure for similar establishments, male category C training prisons, for the same period is 1.06.