HC Deb 04 February 1991 vol 185 cc30-1W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the longest period a person has been held in a police cell in 1990 and 1989;

(2) how many people were held in police cells across Britain, by police authority, for the latest date when figures are available.

Mrs. Rumbold

On Friday 1 February a total of 604 prisoners were held in police cells in the following police areas:

Number
Metropolitan 6
Cheshire 23
Derbyshire 10
Greater Manchester 252
Humberside 57
Kent 11
Lancashire 85
Merseyside 52
Northumbria 12
South Yorkshire 29
West Midlands 24
West Yorkshire 43

Information about the length of time which individual prisoners have spent in police cells is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.