§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were held on remand in the Somerset and Avon police authority area on 30 April and 30 September in each year since 1983; and how many of these prisoners had been waiting for trial for(a) more than nine months and (b) between six and nine months.
§ Mr. John Patten[holding answer 17 December 1987]: Populations of the two establishments are given in the table. Information for all the dates on the time spent in custody by the untried population of the establishments could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, it is estimated that on 30 June 1987, 19 untried prisoners had been initially remanded into custody between six and nine months earlier and five untried prisoners more than nine months earlier. On 30 June 1983 the figures were six and nine respectively. These periods include any intervening time spent on bail.
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Notifiable offences of burglary and theft recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been stolen, by police force area and principal weapon. England and Wales 1986 Number of offences1 Police force area Total Air Weapon Shotgun Pistol Rifle Starting gun Other Avon and Somerset 84 37 30 1 4 4 8 Bedfordshire 40 18 11 5 2 — 4 Cambridgeshire 43 14 22 1 5 — 1 Cheshire 53 9 13 8 10 6 7 Cleveland 2 1 1 — — — — Cumbria 11 8 2 — — — Derbyshire 38 15 17 2 1 — 3 Devon and Cornwall 82 35 25 8 3 5 6 Dorset 13 4 5 4 — — — Durham 44 19 18 — 3 2 2 Essex 91 29 34 7 8 1 12 Gloucestershire 14 4 8 2 — — — Greater Manchester 23 12 4 5 — — 2 Hampshire 104 37 37 10 5 1 14 Hertfordshire 15 7 6 1 — — 14 Humberside 87 52 17 1 4 3 10 Kent 126 45 50 10 3 4 14 Lancashire 107 50 30 5 1 4 17 Leicestershire 46 24 14 1 — 2 5 Lincolnshire 24 6 13 1 3 — 1 London, City 2 — 1 — — — 1 Merseyside 104 70 13 9 1 3 8 Metropolitan 157 62 48 16 2 8 21 Norfolk 76 32 34 2 2 4 2 Northamptonshire 57 27 19 3 4 1 3 Northumbria 135 63 27 3 3 7 32 North Yorkshire 56 20 27 — 6 2 1 Nottinghamshire 32 19 8 1 — — 4
Untried and convicted unsentenced populations of Bristol prison and Pucklechurch remand centre on 30 April and 30 September, 1983–87 Number of prisoners Untried Convicted unsentenced 1983 30 April 177 66 30 September 183 57 1984 30 April 210 26 30 September 190 53 1985 30 April 251 32 30 September 246 54 1986 30 April 302 42 30 September 259 51 1987 30 April 260 45 30 September 239 55