§ Mr. GrieveTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the monthly rates are of(a) property and (b) car crime (i) nationally and (ii) in the South Buckinghamshire District Council in the latest year for which figures are available. [146995]
§ Mr. Charles Clarke[holding answer 23 January 2001]Details for the year ending September 2000 for property crime and vehicle crime are given in the table. Police force area figures, and therefore national figures, are collected quarterly, and these are compared with the equivalent South Buckinghamshire figures.
centres or designated prison accommodation. A number are also held in prisons for reasons of geography or security (or control). For example convicted prisoners subject to deportation action at the end of their sentence may be held in prison pending their removal. However, use of detention centres is preferable to prisons in the vast majority of cases and, in principle, the Government prefer to use detention centres.
In addition we are currently housing some immigration detainees in prisons on a short-term basis, to meet the shortfall in spaces in dedicated accommodation for immigration detainees. The Prison Service has made available up to 500 spaces for immigration detainees, pending the availability later this year of detention space in new immigration detention centres.