§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if any prisoners are currently having to sleep in corridors or anywhere other than a cell; and, if so, where; for what reasons; and how many are involved.
§ Mr. BrittanA small number of inmates in some local and women's prisons, remand centres and detention centres have had to be located from time to time recently in accommodation not designed for sleeping because of the rapid rise in the prison population. The situation varies from day to day but the numbers involved do not exceed 150.