HC Deb 14 July 1988 vol 137 cc326-7W
Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in theOfficial Report by county the total numbers of persons who can be accommodated in (a) prison (b) remand (c) youth custody and (d) detention centres.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information requested is set out in the table. Figures show the certified normal accommodation in each type of establishment in each county on 31 May 1988, the most recent date for which information is available.

County Prisons Remand Centres Youth Custody Centres Detention Centres
England
Avon 938 159 146
Bedfordshire 155
Berkshire 178
Buckinghamshire 429 451
Cambridgeshire 484
Cheshire 154 606 383
Cleveland 150
Cornwall
Cumbria 497
Derbyshire 486
Devon 1,424 53
Dorset 642 17 707
Durham 1,252 195 420
East Sussex 588
Essex 231 54 77
Gloucestershire 193
Greater London 3,952 719 256
Greater Manchester 653 317 139
Hampshire 562 55 100
Hereford and Worcester 432 163 136
Hertfordshire 484
Humberside 699 102 304
Isle of Wight 1,043
Kent 1,449 183 463
Lancashire 1,910 394 81
Leicestershire 1,228 240 372
Lincolnshire 551 202
Merseyside 968
Norfolk 906 60
Northamptonshire 764
Northumberland 448 300
North Yorkshire 134 127
Nottinghamshire 627 304 237
Oxfordshire 127 34 218
Shropshire 174 360
Somerset 173
South Yorkshire 1,001 180
Staffordshire 1,320 360
Suffolk 1,235 391 118
Surrey 736
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Midlands 575
West Sussex 568
West Yorkshire 1,932 95 223
Wiltshire 578
Wales
Clwyd
Dyfed
Gwent 110 120
Gwynedd
Mid Glamorgan
Powys
South Glamorgan 253 85
West Glamorgan 174 55
TOTALS 32,059 3,586 7,471 1,212