§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places there are currently in dispersal prisons (a) for all prisoners and (b) for category A prisoners; how many prisoners were actually accommodated in dispersal prisons at the most recent convenient date; and how many of these were category A prisoners.
§ Mr. MayhewOn 21 July 1981 there were about 2,450 places in dispersal prisons; separate accommodation is not generally allocated to category A prisoners. The population was 2,287 prisoners, of whom 271 were in category A.