HC Deb 20 February 1991 vol 186 c172W
Mr. Maclennan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of prisoners held on remand in police cells on 1 February.

Mrs. Rumbold

On Friday 1 February there were 604 prisoners in police cells. The precise split between remand and other prisoners is not available centrally but most would have been remand prisoners.