HC Deb 14 July 1992 vol 211 cc534-5W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were held in police cells in each of the police forces in England and Wales on the last convenient date.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The position on 9 July was as follows:

Police force Number of prisoners
Avon and Somerset 37
Bedfordshire 24
Cambridgeshire 21
Cheshire 38
Cleveland 7
Cumbria 15
Derbyshire 23
Devon and Cornwall 6
Durham 3
Dyfed 19
Essex 42
Gloucestershire 9
Greater Manchester 263
Gwent 17
Hampshire 7
Hertfordshire 24
Humberside 27
Lancashire 74
Leicestershire 23
Lincolnshire 5
Merseyside 85
Metropolitan 140
North Wales 10
North Yorkshire 21
Northamptonshire 27
Northumbria 56
Nottinghamshire 20
South Wales 68
South Yorkshire 34
Staffordshire 10

Police force Number of prisoners
Suffolk 15
Surrey 9
Sussex 15
Thames Valley 20
Warwickshire 8
West Mercia 28
West Midlands 31
West Yorkshire 81
Wiltshire 5

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department paid each police force for holding people in police cells in 1990 and 1991.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The amounts paid to each police force holding prisoners in police cells during 1990 and 1991 are shown in the table.

Police force 1990–91 1991–92
£ £
Avon and Somerset 2,992,791
Bedfordshire 596,010
Cambridgeshire 1,673,619
Cheshire 1,843,386 2,658,450
City of London 38.818 225,689
Cleveland 421,101 376,773
Cumbria 288,643 181,300
Derbyshire 528,641 691,645
Devon and Cornwall 687,452
Durham 237,793 802,560
Dyfed 1,437,798
Essex 350,560 1,176,095
Gloucester 62,001 453,446
Greater Manchester 15,931,767 20,522,278
Gwent 1,236,786
Hampshire 1,252,012
Hertfordshire 156,124 3,562,244
Humberside 3,309,716 3,309,549
Kent 160,984 1,843,171
Lancashire 3,785,273 6,127,386
Leicestershire 570,304 1,997,202
Lincolnshire 753,405 637,272
Merseyside 2,936,037 2,683,711
Metropolitan 4,786,233 11.316,943
North Wales 303,878 496,536
North Yorkshire 1,676,589
Norfolk 634.553
Northamptonshire 237,479 602,855
Northumbria 2,496,433 2,730,444
Nottinghamshire 447,112 610,263
South Wales 624,067 3,138,284
South Yorkshire 2,784,105 3,110,568
Suffolk 542,205
Surrey 433,548
Sussex 320,430
Thames Valley 153,368 1,620,820
Warwickshire 729,730 596,031
West Mercia 386,300 1,294,179
West Midlands 1,812,584 2,823,517
West Yorkshire 6,591,246 5,425,886
Wiltshire 241,072