§ 25. Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have been housed in Cheshire police stations after conviction since 1990.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information available centrally enables me to provide for each month since April 1990 a figure for the average daily total of inmates, both convicted and unconvicted, who should have been in prison but were held instead in police cells in the Cheshire force area. I will arrange for a table, setting out this information, to be placed in theOfficial Report.
On 21 October, the latest date for which information is available there were 27 prisoners in police cells in Cheshire of whom one was convicted and sentenced.
Average daily total of inmates locked out to the Cheshire Constabulary Month Daily average April 1990 (w.e.f 9/4/90) 21 May 1990 17 June 1990 10 July 1990 9 August 1990 9 September 1990 13 October 1990 20 November 1990 20 December 1990 20 January 1991 23 February 1991 24 March 1991 24 April 1991 28 May 1991 25 June 1991 26 July 1991 31 August 1991 33 September 1991 33 October 1991 32 November 1991 42 December 1991 36 January 1992 38 February 1992 42 March 1992 47 April 1992 47 May 1992 39 June 1992 40 July 1992 40 August 1992 41 September 1992 36