HC Deb 24 July 1969 vol 787 c471W
Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the places available in prisons, borstals and detention centres at the end of 1964 were in accommodation opened since 1951.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

4,484; 2,010; and 1,697. (These figures include 826 places brought into use in establishments existing on 31st December, 1951.)