HL Deb 21 October 1991 vol 531 cc114-5WA
Lord Harris of Greenwich

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many remand prisoners were held in police cells by each police force on 3rd October 1991.

Earl Ferrers

The numbers of prisoners held in police cells by each police force on 3rd October are shown in the attached table. Data are not collected in a way that enables the remand prisoners to be readily distinguished from sentenced prisoners, but most would have been held on remand.

Prisoners held in police cells on 3 October 1991 by police force
Number
Avon and Somerset 48
Bedfordshire 26
Cambridgeshire 20
Cheshire 28
Cleveland 31
Cumbria 20
Derbyshire 30
Devon and Cornwall 30
Dorset 13
Durham 18
Dyfed 29
Essex 34
Gloucestershire 10
Greater Manchester 232
Gwent 30
Hampshire 25
Hertfordshire 10
Humberside 55
Kent 17
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 21
Lincolnshire 15
City of London 10
Merseyside 77
Metropolitan 197
Norfolk 13
North Wales 14
North Yorkshire 35
Northamptonshire 24
Northumbria 67
Nottinghamshire 34
South Wales 56
South Yorkshire 71

Number
Staffordshire 3
Suffolk 9
Surrey 22
Sussex 14
Thames Valley 33
Warwickshire 7
West Mercia 26
West Midlands 40
West Yorkshire 101
Wiltshire 19
Total: 1,621