§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures for each month, from May onwards, for the number of remand prisoners and newly sentenced prisoners being held in police cells in the three counties of Yorkshire and Humberside police authority areas who would normally have been housed in Her Majesty's prison establishments; and if he will show in his answer by month(a) the location of the police cells, (b) their sex and (c) the number of prisoners they have had under their care.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe average number of prisoners. who have been held in police cells in the Humberside and Yorkshire police authority areas each month since May 1990, are given in the table. All the prisoners are male.
Number May 203 June 247 July 204 August 219 September 345 October 295 November 1291 1Average to date. The police cells which were in use for this purpose on Monday 12 November 1990, are given in the table:
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Police cells Number of prisoners Humberside Beverley 12 Grimsby 32 Hull 37 Scunthorpe 9 North Yorkshire Clifford street, York 9 Northallerton 9 Richmond 9 South Kirkby 6 York 3 South Yorkshire Barnsley 5 Doncaster 29 Eccleshill 17 Rotherham 11 Sheffield 20 West Yorkshire Bingley 3 Brighouse 4 Dewsbury 5 Halifax 10 Holmfirth 4 Huddersfield-Bridewell 14 Keighley 6 Leeds-Bridewell 6
Police cells Number of prisoners Millgarth 8 Morley 7 Shipley 4 Weetwood 8 Wetherby 6 Wood street, Wakefield 10 This information is not collected in a way that enables remand and newly sentenced prisoners to be readily identified separately. Details of the police stations in use for the whole of the period in question could be provided only at disproportionate cost.