§ Mr. Beaumont-Darkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons for each of the last five years have been remanded in custody in Her Majesty's prisons awaiting trial for more than six months.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, I refer the hon. Member to the estimates for those held on remand in prison department establishments in England and Wales on 30 November 1980, which were given to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Lewis) on 23 January 1981—[Vol. 997, c.261–2.]
§ Mr. Beaumont-Darkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many persons remanded in custody awaiting trial have been found not guilty of the offence charged in the last five years;
(2) how many persons remanded in custody have been sentenced, on conviction, to non-custodial sentences for the last five years.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation on the ultimate disposal of those received on remand is published annually in "Prison statistics England and Wales"—tables 2.1 and 2.2 of the volume for 1979, Cmnd. 7978. Table 2.4 of the same publication gives summary information for the past five years which does not exclude the double counting of persons received initially as untried and subsequently as convicted unsentenced for one set of charges. Figures for 1980 are not yet available.