HC Deb 23 March 1967 vol 743 cc304-7W
Mr. Awdry

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the age groups and previous occupations of male persons currently detained in Her Majesty's Prisons.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

Statistics about previous occupations of prisoners are not compiled centrally. On 15th March the numbers of male persons, other than non-criminal prisoners, aged under 21, and 21 and over, detained in prisons in England and Wales were 2,562 and 24,199 respectively. A more detailed age analysis of current population is not available, but in 1965 the numbers of receptions of adult male persons into prisons under sentence of imprisonment, corrective training or preventive detention were as follows:

21 to 24 years 10,684
25 to 29 years 9,318
30 to 39 years 10,301
40 to 49 years 6,547
50 to 59 years 2,837
60 or over 904

Mr. Awdry

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list Her Majesty's Prisons, showing for each the year of construction, the present number of prisoners, the current size of the staff and the weekly total cost per prisoner for the latest available year.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

The cost of maintaining a prisoner is not available for individual prisons. The average cost for all prisons in England and Wales in 1965–66 has been calculated provisionally as £14 10s. 4d. a week, excluding costs of new building, rent, rates, public utilities and building maintenance. Other information is as follows:

PRISONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Year of Completion Number of Prisoners 15th March, 1967 Number of Staff
OPEN PRISONS—MALES
‡1960 Appleton Thorn 279 60
‡1955 Ash well 293 79
‡1953 Bela River 264 38
‡1958 Drake Hall 357 64
‡1950 Eastchurch 514 123
Exeter (Haldon) 117 *
‡1960 Ford 514 105
‡1962 Kirkham 402 125
‡1946 Leyhill 405 164
‡1953 Spring Hill 157 37
‡1948 Sudbury 316 94
‡ l959 Thorp Arch 286 70

CLOSED PRISONS AND REMAND CENTRES—MALES
‡1961 Ashford R.C. 480 181
1965 Brockhill R.C. 97 60
1964 Cardiff R.C. 43 *
1964 Exeter R.C. 26 *
1965 Low Newton R.C. 65 86
1965 Pucklechurch R.C. 36 *
1965 Risley R.C. 471 245
1965 Thorp Arch R.C. 87 *
1964 Winchester R.C. 41 *
†pre 1877 Bedford 269 88
†pre 1877 Birmingham 848 273
†pre 1877 Bristol 521 215
1853 Brixton 840 275
†pre 1877 Canterbury 363 126

Year of Completion Number of Prisoners 15th March, 1967 Number of Staff
†pre 1877 Cardiff 380 148
†pre 1877 Dorchester 194 89
†pre 1877 Durham 937 315
†pre 1877 Exeter 366 198
†pre 1877 Gloucester 299 84
†pre 1877 Leeds 951 318
†pre 1877 Leicester 356 136
†pre 1877 Lewes 312 129
†pre 1877 Lincoln 469 166
†pre 1877 Liverpool 1,452 339
†pre 1877 Manchester 1,168 345
1885 Norwich 216 93
†pre 1877 Oxford 271 69
1840 Pentonville 1,333 274
†pre 1877 Shrewsbury 242 97
†pre 1877 Swansea 271 114
†pre 1877 Wandsworth 1,635 377
†pre 1877 Winchester 455 187
1874 Wormwood Scrubs 1,123 396
†pre 1877 Aylesbury 169 89
1963 Blundeston 300 135
1912 Camp Hill 322 165
†pre 1877 Chelmsford 433 139
circa 1800 Dartmoor 575 314
1966 Gartree 390 110
1962 Grendon 152 132
†pre 1877 Hull 279 140
pre 1877 Lancaster 241 93
†pre 1877 Maidstone 489 194
†pre 1877 Northallerton 121 72
†pre 1877 Nottingham 230 102
1835 Parkhurst 478 385
pre 1877 Preston 617 164
†pre 1877 Shepton Mallet 129 55
†pre 1877 Stafford 793 190
‡1949 Verne 286 101
†pre 1877 Wakefield 724 370

OPEN PRISONS—FEMALES
‡1946 Askham Grange 60 41
‡1952 Hill Hall 57 29
‡1957 Moor Court 21 *48

CLOSED PRISONS—FEMALES
1965 Brockhill R.C. 10
1965 Low Newton R.C. 15
1965 Pucklechurch R.C. 12
1965 Risley R.C. 55
Exeter 16
†pre 1877 Holloway 297 265
‡1963 Styal 188 127
* Indicates that the staffing is shared with another institution.
† Indicates establishments taken over by the Prison Commissioners under the Prison Act 1877.
‡ Indicates establishments adapted from existing premises—date of adaptation shown.

Mr. Awdry

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the persons who have escaped from Her Majesty's Prisons and who have not yet been recaptured, showing the date of committal to prison, the date of escape, the name of prison and the original offence in each case.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

Not all this information is available. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as I can.