HC Deb 03 February 1989 vol 146 cc420-1W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the average time a person on remand in custody has spent in prison during the last 12 months.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The latest readily available information was published in table 2.1 of "Prison statistics England and Wales 1987" (Cmnd. 547), a copy of which is held in the Library.