§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by Her Majesty's prison and remand home/centre, for the latest date he has figures
340WLetter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 16 May 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking what was the total number of people remanded in custody by magistrates' courts in (a) Doncaster, (b) Sheffield in each of the last five years.The information you have requested relating to the numbers received into a Prison Service establishment on remand from the Magistrates' courts requested is given in the attached table.available, the number of inmates whose place of residence is South Yorkshire; and what were the figures (a) 12 and (b) 24 months ago.
§ 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 16 May 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking if he will list by Her Majesty's prison and remand home/centre for the latest date he has figures available, the number of inmates whose place of residence is South Yorkshire; and what were the figures (a) 12 and (b) 24 months ago.The information available on where prisoners originate from is for the county of the court first committing to custody. The latest available provisional statistics are for the population in Prison Service establishments on 31 December 1993, who were first committed to custody by a court from South Yorkshire, and is given in the attached table.I regret to inform you that the information on the population available before 1993 is unreliable because of the high proportion of sentenced cases with no court data recorded.341W
Population in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales on 31 December 1993 who were first committed to custody by a court in South Yorkshire1 Prison Service establishment Number of persons2 Acklington 14 Ashwell 3 Askham Grange 5 Aylesbury 2
Prison Service establishment Number of persons2 Bedford 2 Birmingham 1 Castington 7 Chanings Wood 1 Cookham Wood 1 Deerbolt 12 Drake Hall 1 Durham 1 Elmley 2 Erlstoke 1 Everthorpe 33 Feltham 1 Featherstone 2 Frankland 6 Full Sutton 16 Garth 7 Gartree 2 Glen Parva 3 Grenden 2 Hatfield 24 High Point 2 Holme House 5 Hull 75 Huntercome 1 Kirklevington 1 Lancaster 1 Leeds 15 Lincoln 16 Lindholme 104 Littlehey 1 Long Lartin 1 Maidstone 2 Manchester 1 Moorland 104 Morton Hall 26 The Mount 1 New Hall 13 North Sea Camp 2 Nottingham 5 Onley 2 Portsmouth 1 Ranby 44 Risley 4 Rochester 1 Rudgate 19 Stafford 2 Stocken 12 Stoke Heath 1 Sudbury 3 Swaleside 1 Swifen Hall 1 Thorpe Arch 7 Thorne Cross 1 Usk 2 The Verne 1 Wakefield 19 Wandsworth 1 Wetherby 10 Whatton 15 Whitmoor 1 Wolds 190 Wormwood Scrubs 1 Wymott 8 Not Recorded 14 All Prisons 886 1 Provisional figures. 2 Excludes those committed to custody for non-payment of a fine and non-criminal prisoners.