HC Deb 19 December 1986 vol 107 c729W
Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons in the United Kingdom where on 1 December prisoners were sleeping three to a cell.

Mr. Mellor

Information on prisoners sharing cells in prisons in England and Wales is collected on the second Sunday of every month. The prison establishments in which some inmates were sleeping three to a cell certified for one prisoner on 9 November, the latest date for which information is available, were as follows:

Bedford Leicester
Birmingham Lewes
Brockhill Lincoln
Canterbury Liverpool
Cardiff Manchester
Dorchester Norwich
Durham Oxford
Exeter Reading
Gloucester Shepton Mallet
Hull Swansea
Leeds