HC Deb 12 December 2001 vol 376 cc921-2W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of people arrested remained in custody for longer than two hours in the last 12 months. [20929]

Beverley Hughes

Available data on arrests for notifiable offences are based on aggregated returns made by the police. The information collected is by sex, age group, ethnicity and offence category. Information is not collected on the time people were held in custody.

The authority for police power of arrest is set out in sections 24 and 25 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Reviews of the detention of each person in police detention in connection with the investigation of an offence shall be carried out periodically in accordance with the provisions of section 40 of the same Act.