§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of police stations that are holding prisoners on remand; and how many are being held at each station.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerOn Tuesdaty 12 November, prisoners were held in police cells in the following force areas:
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Number Avon and Somerset 46 Bedfordshire 32 Cambridgeshire 21 Cheshire 44 Cleveland 22 Cumbria 12 Derbyshire 50 Devon and Cornwall 23 Dorset 3 Durham 21 Dyfed 15 Essex 11 Gloucestershire 8 Greater Manchester 227 Gwent 23 Hampshire 17 Hertfordshire 18 Humberside 67 Kent 37 Lancashire 97 Leicestershire 36 Lincolnshire 17 Merseyside 89 Metropolitan 122 Norfolk 28 North Wales 15 North Yorkshire 35 Northamptonshire 26 Northumbria 34 Nottinghamshire 42 South Wales 63
Number South Yorkshire 95 Staffordshire 10 Suffolk 12 Surrey 9 Sussex 45 Thames Valley 31 Warwickshire 8 West Mercia 35 West Midlands 43 West Yorkshire 99 Wiltshire 31 Total 1,719 Details of the individual police stations in which these prisoners are detained are not collected centrally.