§ Miss Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many male prisoners were held in 511W custody on remand other than in police custody, in the Greater London area during each week of February; and how many such prisoners were detained (a) in prison, (b) in a police station, (c) in a court building and (d) in other specified accommodation.
§ Mr. MellorOn 28 February 1983, 1,175 unconvicted and 425 convicted unsentenced male prisoners were held at Ashford and Latchmere House remand centres and at Brixton, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs prisons. A further 211 prisoners, most of whom were on remand, were held in police and court cells in London and the south-east because of shortage of accommodation at Brixton, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs prisons. Information is not available about the numbers of remand prisoners in prison department establishments on other dates in February; but the corresponding figures of prisoners in police and court cells on 7,14 and 21 February were, respectively, 153, 168 and 137. The available information does not identify the exact status or detailed location of prisoners detained otherwise than in prison department establishments but they are invariably held either in police or court accommodation.