HC Deb 17 June 1992 vol 209 cc519-20W
Mr. Jopling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give the average number of remand prisoners held in police cells in Cumbria over the last convenient period for each police station; how many police hours were spent looking after them; and at what cost to public funds.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

From 27 October 1991 to 25 January 1992, a daily average of 20 prisoners who normally would be held in prison were held in the following police stations in Cumbria:

  • Barrow-in-Furness
  • Carlisle
  • Kendal
  • Penrith
  • Whitehaven
  • Workington

Information is not available centrally on the numbers held in individual police stations over this period. The available information does not separately identify the number of prisoners held on remand.

During the same period, a total of 17,598 police hours were taken up with tasks relating to the custody and transport of prisoners who would normally be held in prison. The cost to the Prison Service of the police cells operation in Cumbria was £309,433.48.