§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions remand prisoners committed by courts in Wales have been held in prisons outside Wales for each of the last three full years for which figures are available and for 1995 to the latest available date; and what percentage this figure constitutes of the total number of remand prisoners committed by the same courts. [2168]
§ 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 Alan Walker to Mr. Elfyn Llwyd, dated 30 November 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking, on how many occasions remand prisoners committed by courts in Wales have been held in prisons outside Wales for each of the last three full years for which figures are available and for 1995 to the latest available date; and what percentage this figure constitutes of the total number of remand prisoners committed by the same courts.The available information relates to the number of remand prisoners who were first received into a Prison Service establishment in England from a court in Wales and is given in the attached table. The number of occasions when remand prisoners committed by courts in Wales, who were first held in a Welsh prison and subsequently transferred on remand to a prison in England, is not available.
Receptions of remand prisoners first received into a Prison Service establishment in England from a court in Wales, 1992-October 1995 Year Remanded into custody by a Welsh court but first received into an English prison1 2 Percentage of all persons remanded into custody by a Welsh court who were first received into a prison in England 1992 590 25 1993 874 25 1994 991 26 1995 (January-October) 821 25 1 Provisional figures. 2 First received as untried and convicted unsentenced prisoners who were not previously held as untried.