HC Deb 06 June 1995 vol 261 cc124-5W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the catchment area for sentenced and remand prisoners in(a) HM Prison Holloway and (b) HMP Styal. [26890]

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Responsibility 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 Dr. Lynne Jones, dated 6 June 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the catchment areas for sentenced and remand prisoners in Holloway prison and Styal prison. Holloway prison holds female prisoners committed by the courts from the following areas: Greater London (including City of London)

  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Essex
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • East and West Sussex

Styal prison is a training establishment and accommodates sentenced female prisoners allocated from local prisons under the criteria and procedures set out in Circular Instruction 2/1991, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. As a contingency arrangement, it can take a limited number of unsentenced female prisoners from Risley, if this becomes necessary, because of population pressures in the region. Risley serves the courts in the North West of England, North and Mid Wales, Staffordshire and Shropshire.