HC Deb 25 July 1991 vol 195 cc798-9W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many category A prisoners escaped from dispersal prisons during 1990–91; and from which establishments.

Mrs. Rumbold

On 15 January 1991 a category A prisoner under escort to Her Majesty's prison Full Sutton escaped, in company with a category B prisoner. Both were recaptured later the same day.

During 1990–91 no category A prisoners have escaped from within a dispersal prison.