§ Mr. Maclennanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state (a) the number and grades of staff in post and (b) the (i) sentence, (ii) security and (iii) offence categories of prisoners held at Her Majesty's prison Peterhead on 31 December 1986.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton(a) The number and grades of staff in post at Her Majesty's prison Peterhead on 1 January 1987 are given in the table. 1 January is the nearest date to that requested for which the information is available.
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Grade Number Governor I 1 Governor III 1
Grade Number Governor IV 1 Assistant Governor 2 Chief Officer I (Discipline) 1 Chief Officer II (Discipline) 2 Principal Officer (Discipline) 17 Senior Officer (Discipline) 23 Officer (Discipline) 154 Principal Nurse Officer 1 Senior Nurse Officer 1 Nurse Officer 4 Principal Officer (Catering) 1 Senior Officer (Catering) 1 Officer (Catering) 2 Chief Workers Officer I 1 Principal Works Officer 2 Senior Works Officer 3 Works Officer 10 Chief Clerk Officer 1 Principal Clerk Officer 3 Clerk Officer 2 Principal Officer (Instructor) 2 Officer (Instructor) 2 Civilian Instructional Officer III 4 Civilian Instructional Officer IV 2 Typists 3 Civilian Tradesmen 2 Total 249 (b) (i) The average sentence categories for the month of December 1986 (this information is not available on a daily basis).
Average Sentence categories More than 18 months but less than 2 years 1 2 years but less than 3 years 8 3 years but less than 4 years 11 4 years but less than 5 years 18 5 years 28 More than 5 years but less than 10 years 41 10 years or more 39 Life 28 (ii) The security categories of prisoners at Peterhead on 30 December 1986 (the nearest date at which figures are available).
Security categories Category 'A' 6 Category 'B' 145 Category 'C 21 (iii) Information is not readily available on offence categories.