HC Deb 01 December 1980 vol 995 c24W
Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the latest date for which figures are available, how many persons were in prisons on remand.

Mr. Brittan

On 31 October 1980, 2,313 persons were awaiting trial and 1,263 persons who had been convicted were awaiting sentence in prison department establishments in England and Wales.