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SCOTLAND
Arrestment of Earnings
Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland in what circumstances the Lord Advocate acts for and on behalf of employers to assist the arrestment of earnings of people who have refused to pay fines for not registering for the poll tax.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : In terms of the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857 legal proceedings against any public department may be directed against the Lord Advocate. Accordingly, an arrestment seeking to arrest sums owing to an employee of a public department may be served on the Lord Advocate for and on behalf of such a department. Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what approaches the Lord Advocate has had from sheriff officers to assist the arrestment of earnings of people who have refused to pay fines for not registering for the poll tax ; and what action he intends taking.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Any arrestment served on the Lord Advocate in respect of any sums owing by a public department to an employee is a matter between the department, its employee and the person who has instructed the arrestment. Any arrestment so served would be considered to determine its validity. If valid, effect would be given to the arrestment by the public department concerned.
Community Service Orders
Mr. McTaggart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many community service orders were issued by Scottish courts in each of the last five years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number of community service disposals made by courts in Scotland in the most recent five year period for which information is available is as follows :
|Number
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1983 |2,077
1984 |2,553
1985 |2,889
1986 |3,453
1987 |3,478
These figures cover both community service orders (section 1 of the Community Service by Offenders (Scotland) Act 1978) and community service as a condition of a probation order (section 7). The figure quoted for 1987 is provisional and subject to revision.
Kidney Dialysis
Mr. Gordon Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many patients in Scotland not in receipt of dialysis are estimated to be in need of kidney dialysis ; and what is the average waiting time for receiving dialysis.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : All patients referred for treatment for end stage renal failure who, following clinical assessment, are considered likely to benefit from renal dialysis receive appropriate treatment when it is required.
Scottish Film Council
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to publish the policy review of the Scottish Film Council ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Copies of this review, along with the implementation plan authorised by the Secretary of State, are being placed in the Library. We have accepted the major recommendation of the review that the Scottish Film Council should be established as a fully independent non-departmental public body. The separate status of the Scottish Film Council will enable it better to secure private sector support and sponsorship for film in Scotland to supplement the substantial resources already made available by the Government. We are consulting those directly interested about the arrangements for achieving this with full effect from April 1990. I am confident that the new arrangements will provide a secure foundation for the maintenance and development of the distinctive Scottish contribution to film.
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Public Sector Employees
Mr. Wray : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) teachers, (ii)
policemen/policewomen, (iii) higher education lecturers, (iii) higher education researchers, (v) doctors, (vi) nurses and (vii) firemen and firewomen there were for each year since 1976.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 20 February 1989] : The available information is given in the table. Comparable information for lecturers and researchers in higher education, or for part-time recruits is not available centrally.
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Year |Teaching<1> |Scottish police |Scottish fire service<3>|Doctors<4> |Nurses<5>
|service<2>
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1976 |3,061 |n.a. |191 |546 |2,990
1977 |1,933 |n.a. |327 |638 |3,278
1978 |1,972 |n.a. |653 |548 |3,556
1979 |2,082 |1,432 |428 |532 |3,598
1980 |1,773 |665 |156 |541 |3,487
1981 |1,131 |449 |93 |566 |4,128
1982 |1,388 |488 |83 |540 |4,190
1983 |1,551 |455 |116 |555 |4,605
1984 |1,332 |610 |111 |548 |3,337
1985 |1,299 |676 |156 |569 |3,328
1986 |943 |609 |143 |554 |3,095
1987 |848 |518 |180 |591 |3,080
<1> New entrants to teaching (excluding returners) in year ending 30 September.
<2> First appointments to the regular police service in Scotland.
<3> Recruitment to operational and control room staff, year ending 31 December. Peaks in 1978 and 1979 are a result of the introduction of a 42-hour week.
<4> Numbers successfully completing clinical training in year ending 31 July.
<5> Numbers of nurses completing registration following training. Figures for 1976-82 are for calendar years, those for 1983 are for January 1983 to March 1984, while those
for 1984 onwards are for the financial years 1984-85 etc. No separate figures are available for the period January to March 1983. Figures from 1976 to 1983-84 include
in-service nurses taking additional qualifications. Figures for 1984-85 onwards are for nurses qualifying for the first time. A significant proportion do not pursue nursing
careers.
n.a. Consistent figures not available.
EMPLOYMENT
Labour Statistics
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment using labour force survey data what has been the size of the total civilian labour force each year since 1979, what have been the numbers employed and the numbers unemployed each year and what has been the change each year both in numbers and in percentage terms.
Mr. Lee : Estimates of the civilian labour force are not directly available from the labour force survey (LFS).
Available estimates from the LFS of the economically active (that is, those in employment plus the unemployed) aged 16 and over in Great Britain, for LFS years since 1979, are as shown in the table.
|c|Economically active persons aged 16 and over-Great Britain,|c|
|c|Spring estimates|c|
Thousands and Per cent.
Economically Active
Year |In employment|Unemployed
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1979 |25,643 |24,214 |1,429
1981 |26,089 |26,606 |2,483
Change 1979-81 |446 |2,392 |1,054
Percentage |1.7 |9.9 |73.8
1983 |25,797 |22,944 |2,853
Change 1981-83 |-291 |-3,662 |-371
Percentage |-1.1 |-13.8 |-14.9
1984 |26,304 |23,387 |2,916
Change 1983-84 |506 |443 |63
Percentage |2.0 |1.9 |2.2
1985 |26,553 |23,739 |2,814
Change 1984-85 |249 |352 |-103
Percentage |0.9 |1.5 |-3.5
1986 |26,649 |23,829 |2,820
Change 1985-86 |96 |90 |<2>-
Percentage |0.4 |0.4 |<2>-
1987 |27,031 |24,247 |2,784
Change 1986-87 |382 |418 |-36
Percentage |1.4 |1.8 |-1.3
<1> Great Britain labour force definition.
<2> Change not statistically significant.
Source: Labour Force Surveys.
Vacancies
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the number of vacancies each year since 1979, both nationally and by region ; and what has been the change each year in numbers and in percentage terms.
Mr. Lee : Following is the available information which is also in the Library. The table shows the annual average number of unfilled vacancies notified to jobcentres nationally and by region for each year from 1980 to 1988, together with the change in numbers and percentage terms on the previous year. Figures on exactly the same basis are not available for 1979.
|c|Annual average number of unfilled vacancies by region|c|
Year |Unfilled vacancies|Change |Percentage change
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South East
1980 |58,600
1981 |34,000 |-24,600 |-41.98
1982 |42,300 |8,300 |24.41
1983 |50,800 |8,500 |20.09
1984 |59,400 |8,600 |16.93
1985 |62,300 |2,900 |4,88
1986 |70,800 |8,500 |13.64
1987 |90,700 |19,900 |28.11
1988 |95,100 |4,400 |4.85
Greater London
1980 |29,800
1981 |16,200 |-13,600 |-45.64
1982 |19,400 |3,200 |19.75
1983 |22,100 |2,700 |13.92
1984 |26,000 |3,900 |17.65
1985 |26,600 |600 |2.31
1986 |30,000 |3,400 |12.78
1987 |37,700 |7,700 |25.67
1988 |32,200 |-5,500 |-14.59
East Anglia
1980 |4,800
1981 |3,500 |-1,300 |-27.08
1982 |4,400 |900 |25.71
1983 |5,100 |700 |15.91
1984 |5,400 |300 |5,88
1985 |5,800 |400 |7.41
1986 |6,200 |400 |6.90
1987 |8,000 |1,800 |29.03
1988 |9,700 |1,700 |21.25
South West
1980 |10,300
1981 |7,700 |-2,600 |-25.24
1982 |10,700 |3,000 |38.96
1983 |12,700 |2,000 |18.69
1984 |13,600 |900 |7.09
1985 |16,100 |2,500 |18.38
1986 |18,100 |2,000 |12.42
1987 |19,700 |1,600 |8.84
1988 |20,400 |700 |3.55
West Midlands
1980 |7,500
1981 |5,900 |-1,600 |-21.33
1982 |7,200 |1,300 |22.03
1983 |9,600 |2,400 |33.33
1984 |10,700 |1,100 |11.46
1985 |12,200 |1,500 |14.02
1986 |15,400 |3,200 |26.23
1987 |21,100 |5,700 |37.01
1988 |24,100 |3,000 |14.22
East Midlands
1980 |7,300
1981 |5,400 |-1,900 |-26.03
1982 |7,200 |1,800 |33.33
1983 |8,000 |800 |11.11
1984 |8,100 |100 |1.25
1985 |9,000 |900 |11.11
1986 |10,300 |1,300 |14.44
1987 |12,200 |1,900 |18.45
1988 |13,700 |1,500 |12.30
Yorkshire and Humberside
1980 |7,700
1981 |5,300 |-2,400 |-31.17
1982 |7,200 |1,900 |35.85
1983 |8,700 |1,500 |20.83
1984 |8,200 |-500 |-5.75
1985 |8,700 |500 |6.10
1986 |11,300 |2,600 |29.89
1987 |15,600 |4,300 |38.05
1988 |15,500 |-100 |-0.64
North West
1980 |10,400
1981 |7,900 |-2.500 |-24.04
1982 |10,000 |2,100 |26.58
1983 |13,200 |3,200 |0.32
1984 |14,500 |1,300 |9.85
1985 |16,000 |1,500 |10.34
1986 |19,000 |3,000 |18.75
1987 |24,200 |5,200 |27.37
1988 |23,900 |-300 |-1.24
North
1980 |5,600 |- |-
1981 |4,000 |-1,600 |-28.57
1982 |5,100 |1,100 |27.50
1983 |5,800 |700 |13.73
1984 |6,600 |800 |13.79
1985 |7,800 |1,200 |18.18
1986 |9,800 |2,000 |25.64
1987 |12,000 |2,200 |22.45
1988 |11,400 |-600 |-5.00
Wales
1980 |5,800 |- |-
1981 |4,900 |-900 |-15.52
1982 |6,000 |1,100 |22.45
1983 |6,800 |800 |13.33
1984 |7,300 |500 |7.35
1985 |8,000 |700 |9.59
1986 |9,500 |1,500 |18.75
1987 |11,000 |1,500 |15.79
1988 |12,000 |1,000 |9.09
Scotland
1980 |15,300 |- |-
1981 |11,600 |-3,700 |-24.18
1982 |13,100 |1,500 |12.93
1983 |15,300 |2,200 |16.79
1984 |14,800 |-500 |-3.27
1985 |14,600 |-200 |-1.35
1986 |16,300 |1,700 |11.64
1987 |18,800 |2,500 |15.34
1988 |20,000 |1,200 |6.38
Great Britain
1980 |133,200 |- |-
1981 |90,400 |-42,800 |-32.13
1982 |112,900 |22,500 |24.89
1983 |136,100 |23,200 |20.55
1984 |148,600 |12,500 |9.18
1985 |160,500 |11,900 |8.01
1986 |186,800 |26,300 |16.39
1987 |233,200 |46,400 |24.84
1988 |245,800 |12,600 |5.40
Northern Ireland
1980 |1,000 |- |-
1981 |700 |-300 |-30.00
1982 |1,000 |300 |42.86
1983 |1,200 |200 |-20.00
1984 |1,500 |300 |-25.00
1985 |1,600 |100 |6.67
1986 |2,000 |400 |25.00
1987 |2,200 |200 |10.00
1988 |2,800 |600 |27.27
United Kingdom
1980 |134,200
1981 |91,100 |-43,100 |-32.12
1982 |113,900 |22,800 |25.03
1983 |137,300 |23,400 |20.54
1984 |150,200 |12,900 |9.40
1985 |162,100 |11,900 |7.92
1986 |188,800 |26,700 |16.47
1987 |235,400 |46,600 |24.68
1988 |248,500 |13,100 |5.56
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Claimants
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the destinations of those who left the unemployment claimants count.
Mr. Lee : Information on the destinations of those leaving the count is not available.
Civil Service Appeal Board
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment on how many occasions in 1986, 1987, and 1988 his Department has (a) accepted and acted upon or (b) not accepted or acted upon Civil Service appeal board's recommendations concerning his Department's unfair conduct in disciplinary matters.
Mr. Lee : The figures requested are as follows :
|Recommendation accepted|Recomendation not
|and acted upon |accepted or acted upon
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1986 |1 |nil
1987 |no cases |no cases
1988 |nil |3
Mr. Nellist (Coventry South East) : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Coventry South- East, 6 February, Official Report, column 510, what policy guidance his Department's headquarters management have on whether to accept or reject a unanimous recommendation of a Civil Service appeal board.
Mr. Lee : There is no formal policy guidance on this issue. A decision to reject a unanimous recommendation of a Civil Service appeal board can be taken only by the permanent head of the Department and each case is considered on its merits.
Tourism
Mrs. Maureen Hicks : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what value of section 4 grants have been made for each of the past five years in the west midlands.
Mr. Lee : Information on section 4 offers of assistance is not held on a district, metropolitan district or county basis. However, figures for the area covered by the heart of England, including the west midlands are as follows :
£ million
|Projects|Value
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<1>1988 |48 |1.238
1987-88 |47 |1.049
1986-87 |45 |1.224
1985-86 |19 |0.457
1984-85 |25 |0.648
<1> February 1989
Retail Prices Index
Miss Emma Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he has yet received a report from the retail prices index advisory committee on the effect of the abolition of domestic rates on the construction of the index.
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Mr. Fowler : I have today received a report from the committee recommending that the community charge should be included in the retail prices index when domestic rates are abolished. I will shortly be publishing the report and announcing the Government's decision on the recommendations.
Disabled People (Training)
Mr. Bellingham : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about the progress of disabled people in employment training.
Mr. Fowler [holding answer 14 February 1989] : Twelve per cent. of new entrants to employment training are people with a long-term health problem or disability.
This is a significantly higher proportion than for any previous adult training programme, including the community programme. It shows that people with disabilities are just as able as others to benefit from training when it is geared flexibly to their individual needs. Employers can now look very seriously at recruiting and training people with disabilities through ET. As the growth in the work force slows down, opportunities for people with disabilities to get and keep jobs will increase and they will be better able to realise their full potential. Employment training is helping people with disabilities to make the most of these opportunities.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Pensioners (Housing Benefit)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many retirement pensioners in the county of South Yorkshire (a) aged 60 to 79 years and (b) aged 80 years and over receive housing benefit showing this as a percentage figure in relation to all retired pensioners in the county of South Yorkshire ; and what are the comparable national figures.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : I regret that the information requested is not available.
Board and Lodging
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what representations he has received in the month of February, concerning his plans to replace the present system of board-and-lodging allowances for residents of hostels with housing benefit and income support ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : A number of hon. Members, organisations and members of the public have made representations echoing those already made by the 346 organisations mentioned in my reply to the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs Mahon) on 23 January at columns 417-18.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Prisoners (Deaths)
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list all deaths during 1987 and 1988 of persons detained in prison department establishments, stating in each case the age and sex of the inmate,
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the cause of death, the inquest verdict, whether the inmate was sentenced or on remand, the establishment where the inmate was detained, and whether the death occurred there or in an outside hospital.Mr. Douglas Hogg : The information, together with the dates of the deaths, is as follows (all deaths took place at the establishment where the inmate was detained unless otherwise stated) :
1. 1 January 1987 ; male, 40 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Pentonville.
2. 6 January 1987 ; male, 33 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Brixton.
3. 8 January 1987 ; male, 20 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Canterbury.
4. 13 January 1987 ; male, 26 ; hanging ; misadventure ; sentenced ; HMP Swansea.
5. 26 January 1987 ; male, 33 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Hull.
6. 27 January 1987 ; female, 47 ; heart failure ; natural causes, aggravated by lack of care ; remand ; HMP Holloway (died in outside hospital).
7. 28 January 1987 ; male, 55 ; cardiac arrest ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Lincoln (died in outside hospital).
8. 30 January 1987 ; male, 34 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Manchester.
9. 1 February 1987 ; male, 35 ; cut artery ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Grendon.
10. 6 February 1987 ; male, 50 ; coronary thrombosis ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Acklington.
11. 13 February 1987 ; male, 54 ; throat cancer ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Canterbury (died in outside hospital.
12. 18 February 1987 ; male, 57 ; stomach cancer ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Lewes (died in outside hospital).
13. 21 February 1987 ; male, 58 ; lung cancer ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Ashwell (died in outside hospital).
14. 25 February 1987 ; male, 39 ; heart attack ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
15. 26 February 1987 ; male, 37 ; heart disease ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Lewes.
16. 28 February 1987 ; male, 38 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Coldingley.
17. 7 March 1987 ; male, 20 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Ashford.
18. 22 March 1987 ; male, 24 ; hanging ; suicide, aggravated by lack of care ; Immigration Act detainee ; HMP Pentonville. 19. 24 March 1987 ; male, 49 ; cardiac arrest ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Stafford.
20. 31 March 1987 ; male, 29 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
21. 1 April 1987 ; male, 40 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Manchester.
22. 5 April 1987 ; male, 20 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMYCC Stoke Heath.
23. 10 April 1987 ; male, 21 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Leeds.
24. 21 April 1987 ; male, 30 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Canterbury.
25. 23 April 1987 ; male, 32 ; hanging ; misadventure ; sentenced ; HMP Wakefield.
26. 24 April 1987 ; male, 24 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
27. 25 April 1987 ; male, 28 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Durham.
28. 28 April 1987 ; male, 30 ; diabetic coma ; misadventure ; remand ; HMP Dorchester.
29. 3 May 1987 ; male, 21 ; hanging ; misadventure ; remand ; HMP Brixton.
30. 9 May 1987 ; male, 56 ; brain haemorrhage ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Ranby (died in outside hospital).
31. 15 May 1987 ; male, 33 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Brixton.
32. 18 May 1987 ; male, 28 ; inflammation of lung tissue ; natural causes, aggravated by lack of care ; remand ;
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HMP Wormwood Scrubs (died in outside hospital).33. 25 May 1987 ; male, 68 ; heart attack ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Thorp Arch.
34. 29 May 1987 ; male, 36 ; heart disease ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Birmingham.
35. 2 June 1987 ; male, 53 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Kingston.
36. 7 June 1987 ; male, 29 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Winchester.
37. 19 June 1987 ; male, 65 ; heart attack ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Lancaster.
38. 25 June 1987 ; male, 39 ; coronary thrombosis ; natural causes ; remand ; HMP Brixton.
39. 29 June 1987 ; male, 24 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Durham.
40. 7 July 1987 ; male, 39 ; heart attack ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Liverpool (died in outside hospital).
41. 8 July 1987 ; male, 24 ; dehydration ; lack of care ; sentenced ; HMP Birmingham.
42. 10 July 1987 ; male, 34 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Leeds.
43. 14 July 1987 ; male, 17 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMYCC Rochester.
44. 23 July 1987 ; female, 28 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMRC Risley.
45. 27 July 1987 ; male, 46 ; kidney failure ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Reading (died in outside hospital).
46. 29 July 1987 ; male, 36 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Durham.
47. 1 August 1987 ; male, 39 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Long Lartin.
48. 1 August 1987 ; Female, 46 ; brain tumour ; natural causes ; remand ; HMP Holloway (died in outside hospital).
49. 19 August 1987 ; male, 25 ; pneumonia ; natural causes, aggravated by lack of care ; remand ; HMP Brixton.
50. 19 August 1987 ; male, 18 ; bronchial asthma ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMYCC Onley (died in outside hospital).
51. 21 August 1987 ; male, 28 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Lincoln.
52. 23 August 1987 ; male, 18 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMRC Risley.
53. 27 August 1987 ; male, 25 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMRC Risley.
54. 28 August 1987 ; male, 19 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMYCC Stoke Heath.
55. 31 August 1987 ; male, 40 ; coronary thrombosis ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Northeye (died in outside hospital). 56. 5 September 1987 ; male, 22 ; cardiac arrest ; natural causes ; fine defaulter ; HMP Hull (died in outside hospital).
57. 7 September 1987 ; male, 42 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Wandsworth.
58. 10 September 1987 ; male, 19 ; brain haemorrhage ; natural causes ; remand ; HMRC Brockhill (died in outside hospital). 59. 13 September 1987 ; male, 22 ; heart disease ; natural causes ; remand ; HMP Pentonville (died in outside hospital).
60. 14 September 1987 ; male, 32 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Manchester (died in outside hospital).
61. 16 September 1987 ; male, 37 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Wandsworth.
62. 25 September 1987 ; male, 28 ; hanging ; suicide, while balance of mind disturbed ; sentenced ; HMP Cardiff.
63. 28 September 1987 ; male, 21 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Lincoln.
64. 3 October 1987 ; male, 43 ; hanging ; suicide ; remand ; HMP Norwich.
65. 8 October 1987 ; male, 39 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Exeter.
66. 21 October 1987 ; male, 43 ; cancer ; natural causes ; sentenced ; HMP Grendon.
67. 21 October 1987 ; male, 27 ; hanging ; suicide ; sentenced ; HMP Wandsworth.
68. 23 October 1987 ; male, 29 ; brain tumour ; natural causes ; remand ; HMP Leeds.
69. 24 October 1987 ; male, 26 ; hanging, suicide ; remand ;
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