HC Deb 23 July 1993 vol 229 cc408-10W
Mr. Michael

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list(a) the bail hostels and (b) the combined probation and bail hostels in England and Wales at present; how many places there are in each hostel; and how many additional places the Government aims to provide (i) in each of these hostels and (ii) elsewhere by 1995.

Mr. Maclean

There are currently 30 approved bail hostels in England and Wales, as follows:

Bail hostels in England and Wales in 1993
Probation Area Hostel Beds
Cheshire Bunbury House 22
Cheshire Linden Bank 22
Cleveland South Bank 24
Devon Dudley Centre 22
Greater Manchester Chorlton Hostel 27
Gloucestershire Ryecroft 16
Hampshire Dickson House 28
Hampshire Southampton 22
Kent Dover Bail 18
Lancashire Blackburn 18
Leicestershire Howard House 20

Probation Area Hostel Beds
London Inner Canadian Avenue 23
London Inner Kelley House 28
London Inner Tulse Hill 27
London Middlesex Corfton Road 20
London South West Kew 14
Merseyside Merseybank 28
North Wales Ty Newydd 12
Northumbria Cuthbert House 22
Northumbria Pennywell 22
Oxfordshire Clarks House 27
Staffordshire Lichfield Road 20
West Glamorgan Emroch House 15
West Midlands Marshall House 22
West Midlands Stonnall Road 12
West Midlands Sycamore Lodge 32
West Midlands Welford 26
South Yorkshire Town Moor 25
West Yorkshire Howden House 27
West Yorkshire Walmer Villas 18
Beds 659
Hostels 30

There are currently 84 approved probation/bail hostels in England and Wales as listed below:

Probation/bail hostels in England and Wales 1993
Probation Area Hostel Beds
Avon Ashley House 20
Avon Brigstocke Road 29
Avon Bridge House 15
Bedfordshire Bedford 25
Bedfordshire Napier Road 23
Berkshire Elizabeth Fry 20
Berkshire Manor Lodge 27
Berkshire St. Leonards 23
Berkshire Wellesley House 18
Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes 16
Cambridgeshire Peterborough 26
Cheshire Bewsey Street 20
Cleveland The Crescent 25
Cornwall Meneghy House 18
Cumbria Bowling Green 24
Derbyshire Burdett Lodge 25
Devon Lawson House 20
Dorset Bournemouth 25
Dorset Weston 27
Durham Fir Tree Grange 28
East Sussex Brighton 15
Essex Basildon 32
Essex Windyridge 30
Greater Manchester Bradshaw 27
Greater Manchester Hopwood 18
Greater Manchester Ascot House 22
Greater Manchester St. Josephs 29
Greater Manchester Wilton Place 29
Greater Manchester Withington Road 37
Hampshire The Grange 18
Hereford and Worcester Braley House 23
Hertfordshire St. Albans 26
Humberside Queens Road 19
Kent Fleming House 23
Kent Hollywood Manor 30
Lancashire Highfield House 18
Lancashire Hoole House 24
Leicestershire Charnwood House 18
Leicestershire Kirk Lodge 35
Lincolnshire Wordsworth House 28
London Inner Bedford/Shenley 30
London Inner Camden House 29
London Inner Ellison House 25
London Inner KPH 19
London Inner St. Edmunds 25
London Inner St. Mungo 25
London Inner St. Vincents 24
London Inner West Park 22

Probation Area Hostel Beds
London Middlesex Seafield Lodge 14
London North East Westbourne House 40
London South East Beckenham Road 20
Merseyside Adelaide House 22
Merseyside Canning House 27
Merseyside Southwood 23
North Wales Plas-y-wern 12
Norfolk John Boag House 29
Northants Bridgewood 23
Northants Stone House 24
Northumbria Ozanam House 27
Northumbria St. Christophers 22
Nottinghamshire Astral Grove 15
Nottinghamshire Southwell House 16
Nottinghamshire Trent House 22
Oxfordshire Abingdon Road 22
South Glamorgan Mandeville House 26
Somerset Glogan House 16
Staffordshire Wenger House 42
Suffolk Lightfoot House 22
Suffolk The Cottage 18
Surrey St. Catherines 19
West Midlands Bilston 15
West Midlands Carpenter House 16
West Midlands Crowley House 18
West Midlands Stoke Green 22
Warwickshire Kenilworth Road 18
Warwickshire Mclntyre House 18
South Yorkshire Centre 45 36
South Yorkshire Norfolk Park 49
South Yorkshire Rookwood 37
West Yorkshire Albion Street 24
West Yorkshire Cardigan House 23
West Yorkshire Elm Bank 17
West Yorkshire Ripon House 17
West Yorkshire St. Johns House 28
Beds 1,993
Hostels 84

The approved hostel expansion programme aims to provide 1,365 additional places between April 1988 and March 1996. Of these, 914 are already on stream and are included in the tables. The remaining places have been provisionally allocated, but until the appropriate properties or sites are identified the precise numbers cannot be determined.

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