HC Deb 30 April 1999 vol 330 cc290-1W
Mr. Laurence Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 19 April 1999,Official Report, columns 419–20, on remand prisoners, how many (i) untried and (ii) convicted remand prisoners spent (a) 0–10 days, (b) 11–20 days, (c) 21–30 days, (d) 31 to 50 days, (e) 51 to 100 days, (f) 101 to 150 days, (g) 151 to 250 days and (h) over 250 days in custody in 1998; and what percentage each category represented of the total prison population. [82488]

Mr. George Howarth

The available information relates to the length of time since first remanded into prison and is given in the tables.

Untried prisoners in prisons in England and Wales by length of time since first reception on 30 June 19981,2
Length of time since first remand into a Prison Service establishment Number Percentage of all untried prisoners Percentage of all prisoners
All lengths 8,358 100 12.7
Up to and including 10 days 1,056 13 1.6
11 to 20 days 950 12 1.4
21 to 30 days 786 9 1.2
31 to 50 days 1,198 14 1.8
51 to 100 days 1,778 21 2.7
101 to 150 days 939 11 1.4
151 to 250 days 939 11 1.4
Over 250 days 712 9 1.1
Convicted unsentenced prisoners in prisons in England and Wales by length of time since first reception on 30 June 19981,2
Length of time since first remand into a Prison Service establishment Number Percentage of all convicted unsentenced prisoners Percentage of all prisoners
All lengths 4,545 100 6.9
Up to and including 10 days 560 12 0.9
11 to 20 days 639 14 1.0
21 to 30 days 395 8 0.6
31 to 50 days 521 12 0.8
51 to 100 days 817 18 1.2
101 to 150 days 568 13 0.9
151 to 250 days 596 13 0.9
Over 250 days 449 10 0.7
1 Time since first reception on remand into a Prison Service establishment. This includes any intervening time spent on bail, but excludes time spent in police cells beforehand.
2 Provisional figures