§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by category, the establishment number of prisoners to be held at Doncaster prison when it is opened.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 28 March 1994:
HM Prison Doncaster
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about Doncaster prison.
Doncaster has a certified normal accommodation of 771 places. As a local prison serving the courts, the population mix will fluctuate with the number and age of prisoners committed to it. It is expected that two thirds of the prisoners will he male young offenders and one third adult males. The population will include those on remand, those convicted awaiting sentence, those sentenced awaiting allocation to a training prison and some who will serve their entire sentence in the prison.