§ Mr. Irvingasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the location of bail hostels in England and Wales, the number of beds available in each hostel and the percentage occupancy of each hostel during 1984.
§ Mr. MellorThe location, number of available places and percentage occupancy during 1984 for the 17 approved bail hostels in England and Wales are as follows:
Name Location Approved places on 31 December 1984 Percentage occupancy during 1984 Basildon Basildon, Essex 15 77 Blackburn Blackburn, Lancashire 12 77 Clark's House Oxford 12 74 Corfton Road Ealing, London 18 73 Curtis House Liverpool 8 77 Dudley Centre Newton Abbot, Devon 16 64 Howard House Leicester 17 89 Howden House Leeds, West Yorkshire 15 80 Kelley House London, NW1 12 61 Kew Kew, London 14 72 Lichfield Road Stafford 12 83 Marshall House Wolverhampton, West Midlands 15 61 South Bank Middlesbrough, Cleveland 20 73 St. Mungo's Battersea, London 9 89 Tulse Hill Tulse Hill, London 24 57 Welford Aston, Birmingham 19 81 Westmorland Road Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 71 In addition, there are 16 combined probation and bail hostels with 309 places, of which about half are usually taken by persons on bail, and 65 probation hostels with 1,199 places, which, although mainly intended for persons on probation, will also take a few persons on bail if they have vacancies. On 31 May 1985 there were 528 persons remanded on bail to approved hostels of all types.
§ Mr. Irvingasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average cost per day of a bail bed in a bail hostel and the average cost per day of a prison remand place.
§ Mr. MellorThe average cost of an occupied place in approved bail, probation-bail and probation hostels, less payments received from residents, but before deduction of the local authority flat-rate contribution, was £131 a week in the financial year 1983–84. No separate figure is available for the cost of a bail place in a bail hostel, but it is not likely to vary much from this.
The costs of holding different types of prisoner in penal establishments are not available. During 1983–84, the latest year for which information is available, the average weekly cost of keeping a person in a local prison or remand centre was £216.