§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which categories of detainees may be kept for unspecified periods of time in HM Prison Service establishments or detention centres without being charged with a crime. [783]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe Prison Service keeps in custody those subject to a warrant of commitment or other lawful detention order. Those held for unspecified periods of time will be remanded by a court awaiting trial, sentence or extradition proceedings or be detained under Immigration Act powers.