HC Deb 01 November 1988 vol 139 cc574-5W
Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average period of custodial remand for female custodial remand prisoners in England and Wales for the first half of the current year.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

It is estimated that the figures for the first half of 1988 were broadly similar to those for 1987, that is an average of 45 days spent by untried females in prison service establishments and an average of 27 days for convicted unsentenced females.