§ Mr. Wheelerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons where prisoners are held on remand or are convicted but not sentenced, showing, for the most convenient recent date, the numbers so held in each prison, the number of certified accommodation places in single cells, and how many prisoners have been doubled or trebled up for want of single-cell accommodation.
§ Mr. BrittanInformation relating to remand prisoners held on 30 April 1980 is listed below. The allocation of accommodation between remand and sentenced prisoners has to be flexible and details of 187W the certified normal accommodation available solely for remand prisoners are not therefore available. Information collected centrally on prisoners sleeping two or three to a cell does not distinguish between remand and sentenced prisoners.
Awaitingtrial Convicted awaiting sentence MALES Remand Centres Ashford 217 97 Brockhill 147 87 Cardiff 33 28 Exeter 20 23 Latchmere House 33 122 Low Newton 121 69 Norwich 47 13 Pucklechurch 44 40 Risley 387 209 Thorp Arch 123 44 Winchester 36 29 Local Prisons Bedford 99 44 Birmingham 92 107 Bristol 71 24 Brixton 795 76 Camp Hill 7 1 Canterbury 106 39 Cardiff 60 32 Dorchester 35 10 Durham 134 36 Exeter 66 24 Gloucester 26 12 Leeds 261 67 Leicester 103 42 Lewes 245 69 Lincoln 174 56 Manchester 188 155 Norwich 99 22 Oxford 116 40 Pentonville 219 74 Reading 40 3 Shrewsbury 54 7 Swansea 40 18 Wandsworth — 180 Winchester 43 67 Wormwood Scrubs — 66 FEMALES Brixton 2 — Holloway 121 85 Low Newton 11 6 Pucklechurch 18 15 Risley 47 39
§ Mr. Wheelerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of prisons, or extensions to existing prisons, currently being built ; how much new certified accommodation this will provide ; and what are the dates of expected availability.
§ Mr. BrittanThe details which the hon. Member requests are published in appendix No. 2 of the report on the work of the prison department for 1978 (Cmnd. 7619). Information relating to the latest position is being prepared and will appear in the188W 1979 report, which will be published shortly.