HC Deb 15 March 1990 vol 169 c362W
1989. Mr. Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the penal establishments in England and Wales, by security category, giving the number of inmates in each, at a convenient date in(a) 1979 and (b)

Mr. Mellor

Prison service establishments are classified by main function; subdivision into security category is practised only for male training prisons. A list of all establishments in England and Wales with their inmate populations on 31 December each year has been deposited in the Library. For a variety of reasons, training prisons may hold a number of inmates whose individual security classification is lower than that of the establishment itself.