HC Deb 13 March 2001 vol 364 c518W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the ethnic breakdown is of inmates in(a) Strangeways Prison and (b) UK prisons. [153228]

Mr. Boateng

The figures for all prisons in England and Wales and for Manchester prison (Strangeways) as at 31 January 2001, are provisionally recorded as follows:

Ethnicity All prisons Manchester prison
Asian
Bangladeshi 196 0
Indian 641 4
Other 1,099 17
Pakistani 1,038 15
Black
African 1,393 19
Caribbean 4,989 24
Other 2,165 72
Chinese 115 0
Not known 46 0
Other 1,447 4
White 50,845 908
Total 63,974 1,063