Prison Population (Hansard, 13 November 1989)

§ Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the ethnic composition of the remand and sentenced prison population for the latest date

Population¹ of specified Prision Service establishments in England and Wales on 30 June 1989: by establishment, type of prisoner and ethnic origin
Number
	Ethnic origin
Establishment and type of prisoner	White	West Indian, Guyanese, African	Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi	Chinese, Arab, Mixed origin	Other, not recorded (including refusals)	Total number of persons in establishments
Brixton
Untried	440	226	22	19	30	737
Convicted unsentenced	105	36	3	3	1	148
Sentenced	123	33	6	3	5	170
Non-criminal	—	2	—	—	—	2
All prisoners	668	297	31	25	36	1,057
Wormwood Scrubs²
Untried	388	228	17	15	7	655
Convicted unsentenced	—	—	—	—	—	—
Sentenced	320	46	9	7	9	391
Non-criminal	—	—	—	—	—	—
All prisoners	708	274	26	22	16	1,046
Wandsworth
Untried	—	—	—	—	—	—
Convicted unsentenced	29	26	3	1	3	62
Sentenced	1,029	338	54	33	34	1,488
Non-criminal	—	—	—	—	—	—
All prisoners	1,058	364	57	34	37	1,550
Pentonville
Untried	101	51	2	7	7	168
Convicted unsentenced	28	10	2	1	1	42
Sentenced	480	151	21	17	4	673
Non-criminal	11	5	—	10	1	27
All prisoners	620	217	25	35	13	910
Holloway
Untried	116	62	2	8	34	222
Convicted unsentenced	32	8	1	2	11	54
Sentenced	109	61	1	5	19	195
Non-criminal	—	1	—	—	—	1
All prisoners	257	132	4	15	64	472
Manchester³
Untried	423	36	15	27	18	519
Convicted unsentenced	168	5	1	6	8	188
Sentenced	803	32	16	19	9	879
Non-criminal	—	—	—	—	—	—
All prisoners	1,394	73	32	52	35	1,586
Birmingham
Untried	260	74	22	7	12	375
Convicted unsentenced	54	8	7	2	3	74
Sentenced	376	71	26	15	8	496
Non-criminal	1	—	3	1	—	5
All prisoners	691	153	58	25	23	950
Leeds
Untried	490	33	29	13	11	576
Convicted unsentenced	73	5	2	2	2	84
Sentenced	565	22	18	11	6	622
Non-criminal	5	3	—	1	—	9
All prisoners	1,133	63	49	27	19	1,291
¹ Provisional. The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate.
² Local and closed training prison.
³ Remand centre and local prison.

18W

available at (a) Brixton, (b) Wormwood Scrubs, (c) Wandsworth, (d) Pentonville, (e) Holloway, (f) Manchester (g) Birmingham and (h) Leeds; and if he will make a statement.