HC Deb 23 May 1990 vol 173 c175W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for the counties of Yorkshire and Humberside for the latest date for which he has figures(a) the police stations that are holding inmates from prisons because of a shortage of detention space, (b) the number they are holding and (c) from which prison they were transferred.

Mr. Mellor

On Friday 18 May 1990 there were 155 prisoners held in police stations in Yorkshire. No prisoners were held in Humberside police stations. Not all of these currently held in police stations were at Her Majesty's prison Manchester at the time of the disturbance, but they would have been accommodated in Manchester prison but for the loss of accommodation there.

Details of the number of prisoners held in each police station in Yorkshire are as follows:

Police Station Number of Prisoners
Holmfirth 6
Morley 7
Halifax 13
Weetwood 5
South Kirby 8
Huddersfield 13
Dewsbury 10
Sheffield 29
Doncaster 23
Barnsley 14
Rotherham 16
York 11