§ Mr. Allan RogersTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) convicted and (b) remand prisoners from Wales are currently in custody (i) by county (ii) by sex and (iii) in total. [41382]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Allan Rogers, dated 7 November 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking how many a) convicted and b) remanded prisoners from Wales are currently in custody i) by county ii) by sex and iii) in total.Table 1 gives the number of prisoners born in Wales who were held on 30 September in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales. Information by county of birth is not routinely collected. However, the 1991 National Prison Survey collected this information for the prisoners in that sample. The numbers given in table 2 should be treated with care as they are taken from a medium sized sample study.822W
Forces 1991 1992 1993 1 April 1994 to 31 March 1995 Avon and Somerset 66 42 56 175 Bedfordshire 35 27 53 36 Cambridgeshire 64 105 66 73 Cheshire 42 43 40 93 City of London 71 93 23 8 Cleveland 5 28 22 107 Cumbria 16 11 18 44 Derbyshire 14 31 28 68 Devon and Cornwall 38 46 51 29 Dorset 33 27 28 46 Durham 49 27 134 100 Dyfed-Powys 14 9 7 16 Essex 107 140 138 267 Gloucestershire 5 6 10 27 Greater Manchester 100 100 107 110 Gwent 27 15 13 20 Hampshire 94 180 215 195 Hertfordshire 49 53 57 69 Humberside 14 6 89 49 Kent 96 74 89 95 Lancashire 9 23 45 57 Leicestershire 27 18 41 78
Table 1: Population in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales on 30 September 1995 whose country of birth was Wales1 Sex Type of custody Males Females Remand 489 3 Sentenced 1,754 25 Fine defaulters 20 — Total 2,266 28 1 Provisional figures, total includes 3 non-criminal prisoners.
Table 2: The 1991 National Prison Survey sample showing county of birth within Wales County Number in the sample Clwyd 15 Dyfed 11 Gwent 28 Gwynedd 10 Mid Glamorgan 29 South Glamorgan 41 West Glamorgan 25 Powys 3