HC Deb 02 December 1998 vol 321 c190W
Dr. Vis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women were removed from each of the four prison mother and baby units in (i) 1998, (ii) 1997 and (iii) 1996; and for what reasons. [61019]

Mr. George Howarth

The information is given in the table.

who had consented to be repatriated to this country, once they returned here.

Legal aid is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor. I am advised, however, that it would be open to a person so facing charges to apply in the usual way for criminal legal aid, once he had been returned to the United Kingdom, and that any such application would be considered under Part V of the Legal Aid Act 1988.