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1983 |0.64
1984 |0.55
1985 |0.18
1986 |0.77
1987 |-0.05
TRANSPORT
Road Casualties
Mr. Thornton : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of fatal and serious road casualties among children aged 5 to 14 years for each year from 1965 to the nearest available year between October and February for the following hours of the day (a) 7 to 8 am, (b) 8 to 9 am, (c) 9 to 10 am, (d) 3 to 4 pm, (e) 5 to 6 pm and (f) 6 to 7 pm.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The information requested is available only from 1979. This is given in the table.
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|c|Fatal and serious casualties among children aged 5-14 years by
time of day between October and February: 1979-87|c|
|7-8 |8-9 |9-10 |3-4 |4-5 |5-6 |6-7 |Rest |Total
|am |am |am |pm |pm |pm |pm
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1979-80 |47 |404 |108 |418 |729 |423 |263 |1,295|3,687
1980-81 |63 |354 |79 |415 |586 |383 |232 |1,286|3,398
1981-82 |46 |260 |79 |400 |562 |325 |232 |1,204|3,108
1982-83 |39 |346 |81 |471 |553 |365 |231 |1,237|3,323
1983-84 |50 |356 |60 |487 |581 |372 |261 |1,227|3,394
1984-85 |48 |324 |78 |434 |492 |356 |271 |1,143|3,146
1985-86 |46 |309 |88 |469 |489 |348 |244 |1,192|3,185
1986-87 |37 |267 |68 |355 |402 |286 |223 |960 |2,598
Heavy Lorries
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations have been made to him regarding (a) exceeding the speed limit and (b) hazardous overtaking involving heavy lorries ; what prosecutions have taken place in the past years with regard to these two offences ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The Department receives many representations about the full range of road safety issues.
We devote considerable effort to improving driver behaviour. Last year my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport announced a package of measures dealing specifically with motorway safety, and aimed in particular at improving driver behaviour. Hazardous overtaking is not a specific offence in road traffic law, but drivers who perform dangerous manoeuvres can be prosecuted for either reckless or careless driving.
Statistics on road traffic offences are published annually by the Government statistical service in the supplementary tables on offences relating to motor vehicles England and Wales.
Lydd Airport
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what consideration he has given to plans to extend Lydd airport in terms of the increased air traffic over south-east England.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : A planning application by Lydd Airport Group Limited to extend the airport runway was called in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment in July last year. The inspector who conducted the inquiry into the proposal has now reported to my right hon. Friend, who will announce his decision as soon as possible.
Random Breath Testing
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what information he has relating to New South Wales regarding (a) the percentage reduction in the average number of fatal crashes in the five years after the introduction of random breath testing, (b) the percentage reduction in the average number of alcohol-related fatal and serious accidents in the four years after the introduction of random breath testing and (c) the percentage reduction in the average number of drivers and riders killed over the legal limit in the four years after the introduction of random breath testing.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : Random breath testing was introduced in New South Wales in December 1982. It has
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been accompanied by a sustained publicity campaign and a high level of police enforcement activity which aims to test one in every three drivers per year.Since 1982 the percentage of drivers killed while over the legal limit has fallen from 40 to 34 per cent. in 1986--a drop of 6 per cent.
Over the same period in this country, the decline has been from 36 to 25 per cent., a drop of 11 per cent.--nearly double that of New South Wales.
Assessments of enforcement strategy in New South Wales and other Australian states where RBT is used frequently draw attention to the impact of high levels of police activity and publicity as important factors, as distinct from the actual method of enforcement. Research carried out by the school of behavioural sciences, Macquarie university, and the traffic authority of New South Wales in 1988 gives the following information :
(a) the number of fatal crashes fell by 22 per cent., from an average of 22.12 per week in the five years before the introduction of random breath testing to an average of 17.23 per week in the five years after ;
(b) the number of alcohol-related fatal and serious injury accidents fell from an average of 13.43 per week in the five years before to 8.67 in the four years after, a decline of 35 per cent. ; (c) the average number of drivers and riders killed while over the legal limit dropped from 4.36 per week in the three years before RBT to 2.81 in the four years after, a fall of 36 per cent. Simple comparisons and statistics may be misleading ; for instance, the legal limit for blood alcohol content in New South Wales is 50 mg/ml and in this country it is 80 mg/ml.
Microlight Aircraft
Mr. Colin Shepherd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many prosecutions have been made under section 48(1)(a) of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 ; how many of these involved microlight aircraft ; and, in this respect, what was the outcome of each.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : Section 48 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949, which provided power to give effect in the United Kingdom to the Rome convention 1933 relating to damage caused by aircraft to third parties on the surface, was never brought into operation. It was repealed by section 26 of the Civil Aviation Act 1968.
Goods Vehicles (Speed Limiters)
Mr. Squire : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out, in tabular form, in respect of each of the countries of the EEC, in respect of goods vehicles with a weight greater than 3.5 tonnes : the maximum speed in miles per hour on motorways and the maximum speed in miles per hour on non-motorway roads ; whether there is currently a mandatory requirement to fit speed limiters ;
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and what is the proportion of all such vehicles registered within that country which are estimated to have been fitted with such speed limiters.Mr. Peter Bottomley : The following is derived from a table provided by the EC Commission in January 1989, in respect of heavy goods vehicles :
Maximum speeds (mph) Member State |Motorway |Expressway |Other Road ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Belgium |56 |56 |37 Denmark |43 |43 |43 FR Germany |50 |37 |43 France |50 |50 |37 Greece |37 |37 |37 Republic of Ireland |35 |35 |35 Italy |50 |37 |37 Luxembourg |37 |37 |37 Netherlands |50 |50 |37 United Kingdom |60 |50 |<1>40 Spain |62 |50 |43 Portugal |50 |43 |37 <1> 30 mph in built-up areas.
There are a few variations according to operating weights. The information must be treated with some caution because the classification of roads varies between member states.
The information requested on speed limiters is not available, although I understand that in France new vehicles over 10 tonnes gross vehicle weight must be fitted with speed limiters and that in the Federal Republic of Germany mobile cranes must be so fitted. In the United Kingdom, coaches are required to be fitted with speed limiters over the next two years. The number of speed limiters fitted voluntarily to heavy goods vehicles is not known.
Service Areas (Baby Changing)
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that facilities provided for the changing and feeding of babies at motorway service areas can be used by male as well as female parents or carers.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : At new motorway service areas we require a nursing mothers' room. Operators are not required by their leases to provide such facilities at older motorway service areas. Some already do so voluntarily and others will be encouraged to provide them when other alterations are being made.
Considerations of privacy, in particular for breast feeding, preclude any general sharing of such facilities by men looking after babies. We do not currently propose to require any separate provision for men. If demand builds up for this, we will reconsider the position in consultation with the operators.
Cross-Channel Freight Traffic
Mr. Favell : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Stockport, Official Report, 20 March, column 399, whether he is proposing to make any assessment of cross-Channel freight traffic in total and by mode by 1992 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Portillo : The Department has no plans to make such an assessment.
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Passenger Ferries
Sir David Price : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if, further to his reply of 13 March, Official Report, columns 120-1 , he will list the names of the small number of roll-on/roll off passenger ferries built before 1980, where modification is not a realistic proposition and the names of their owners ; and when in each case they plan to withdraw them from service.
Mr. Portillo : All 73 pre-1980 ferries in use at the moment comply fully with the current international convention for safety of life at sea (SOLAS). The Sheen report recommended that a higher standard of stability in the damaged condition should be applied to these ships. The majority of the ships which did not comply with this higher standard have been, or will be, modified by their owners to achieve compliance.
The owners have made known the names of the ships for which we understand modification is not a realistic proposition. These are (registered owner's name in brackets) :
Darnia--(James Fisher & Sons Ltd.)
Earl Granville--(W & G Industrial Leasing Ltd.)
Earl Harold--(Sealink UK Ltd.)
Tynwald--(Sealink UK Ltd.)
St. Ola--(P & O Ferries Ltd.)
Pride of Canterbury--(P & O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd.) Pride of Hythe-- (P & O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd.)
Initial indications are that the owners will not retain these ships for more than about another three years. Discussions on that continue.
Airline Safety (Departmental Warning)
Mr. Campbell-Savours : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he will publish the full text of the warning and the supplementary circular his Department issued on airline safety following the discovery of a bomb in a radio cassette player in Frankfurt in October 1988.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : No. It is not our practice to publish communications between the Department and the industry about aviation security matters. To do so only benefits terrorists and hinders security.
Thames Line River Services
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Newham, South, Official Report , 16 March, column 284 , he will give the considerations and calculations relating to his decision to provide approximately £400,000 of public support to Thames Line River Services in central London, together with the relevant vote in the current estimates, the expected means of payment and any conditions relating to the grant.
Mr. Portillo : The decision to provide up to £500,000 of grant took into account the benefits to the community of relief of road congestion and the encouragement of development of riverside areas in need of regeneration. The grant will be met from the administration and transport services vote (class VIII, vote 2). Payment of grant is limited to is application to the promotion and improvement of the services, and is conditional upon a private sector contribution of up to £2 million, to be paid on a pro rata basis, and to the provision of appropriate management reports and accounts.
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Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the estimated or actual number of passengers and passenger miles, respectively, carried by Thames Line River Services in the year 1988, or financial year 1988-89, together with the comparable estimates for the financial year 1989-90 ; and what is the expected public subsidy, or its range, per passenger and per passenger mile, respectively.
Mr. Portillo : Thames Line estimates that some 138,000 passengers were carried in its first nine months of operation to February 1989. A progressive and substantial increase in patronage is expected during the next three years, but the forecast of the business are commercially confidential.
Sir Keith Bright (Resignation)
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he can now announce the terms on which Sir Keith Bright resigned from London Transport.
Mr. Portillo : The terms are still under discussion.
European Maritime Policy
Mr. Sayeed : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to receive the proposals from the Commission of the EEC for a second stage of European maritime policy ; what time limit he has set for the production of such proposals ; whether such proposals have yet been forwarded by the Commission to the Council ; and if he will make representations to the Commission on the need for greater urgency in dealing with this matter.
Mr. Portillo : We continue to press the Commission. We understand that it aims to produce proposals for the June Council of Transport Ministers.
Trunk Roads (Review)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has completed his review of the trunk road network ; and if he is now in a position to further improve roads benefiting Suffolk and Norfolk.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The review of the trunk road programme is in progress. Possible improvements to trunk roads benefiting Suffolk and Norfolk are being considered along with many other candidates for inclusion on their merits for a share of the resources available. We expect to make an announcement by early summer.
Railway Accident (Warrington)
Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy to place in the Library a copy of the detailed report of the accident at Arpley sidings, Warrington, on 27 February, when this has been submitted by the British Railways Board to the railway inspectorate at the Department of Transport.
Mr. Portillo : The railway inspectorate is to hold an inquiry into this accident. The report will be published.
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Britannia Bridge, Limehouse
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport who was consulted on the effects on safety of a reversible lane on the Britannia bridge on the Commercial road at Limehouse ; and if he will make the documents containing the advice available in the Library.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The decision that site restrictions and safety considerations rule out the use of a reversible lane at Britannia bridge was based on the professional judgment of the Department's officials.
British Rail (Provincial Services)
Mr. Irvine : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he proposes to authorise any further investment in British Rail's provincial services.
Mr. Portillo : We have authorised the purchase by British Rail of another 56 class 158 express vehicles at a cost of about £20 million. They will be built at BREL immediately after the 138 vehicles which we approved in January. The first of all these new vehicles should be entering service by early 1991.
London Assessment Studies
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many visits he has made to any of the route options of the east London assessment study ; how many meetings he has had with hon. Members of constituencies affected ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : I have not made any such visits. It is for the consultants to assess their options at this stage. I have had meetings with most hon. Members concerned.
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what information his Department has about the use of routes in the east London assessment study area by heavy lorries, commuter cars and public transport ; and if he will make a statement on comparative figures for each of the last eight years.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The information that the hon. Member requests is not available except at disproportionate cost.
The most comprehensive sources of information for the east London assessment study area is the consultants' stage 1 report, copies of which are in the Library.
Figures available for traffic entering central London in the morning peak hours for the following years are :
|Cars |Heavy goods vehicles|Buses/coaches
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1979 |128,400 |3,300 |4,200
1981 |129,500 |2,750 |4,350
1983 |124,400 |2,450 |4,500
1985 |127,000 |2,000 |4,300
1987 |123,350 |1,900 |3,650
Source: DTP.
Similar figures for the numbers of commuters in the morning peak are :
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|Cars |British Rail |London Regional Transport|London Regional Transport|Total including coaches
|rail |bus |and cycles
|Thousands |Thousands |Thousands |Thousands |Thousands
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1980 |184 |412 |305 |103 |1,031
1981 |173 |394 |336 |105 |1,037
1982 |197 |390 |283 |99 |1,013
1983 |180 |384 |323 |97 |1,026
1984 |180 |386 |351 |94 |1,049
1985 |171 |401 |364 |94 |1,069
1986 |166 |421 |381 |91 |1,093
1987 |162 |449 |403 |79 |1,125
Sources: British Rail/London Regional Transport.
The figures show that the total number of commuters has increased by 9.1 per cent. since 1980, that the number commuting by car has fallen substantially and that road traffic entering central London in the morning peak has decreased.
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many representations he has received against the public walk road option in the east London assessment study ; how many phone calls, have been made to his Department ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : A number of representations, including phone calls, have been received from action groups, amenity groups, residents associations, members of the public and hon. Members about the consultant's options that involve use of the public walk.
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to announce his intentions with regard to any routes affected by the assessment studies in London.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : It is too soon to say.
Highgate--Finsbury Park (Public Walk)
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether his Department has any plans for a light railway development along the route of the public walk between Highgate and Finsbury Park ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Portillo : No. A light railway is one of the options being considered by the consultants for the east London assessment study.
Trawlers (Medical Supplies)
Mr. Barry Fields : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the medical supplies required by the latest European Economic Community directive for (a) a trawler at sea for more than eight hours and (b) a trawler at sea for more than 24 hours.
Mr. Portillo : No such directive has been adopted ; nor has any proposal for a draft directive yet been made by the Commission to the Council of Ministers.
Lindane Container (Channel)
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he anticipates the recovery of the Lindane container lost in the Channel.
Mr. Portillo : The commercial container of Lindane was lost in an area of the Channel in which under a bilateral
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agreement the French authorities are responsible for taking counter-pollution action. They are undertaking an extensive search for the lost container and the Department's marine pollution control unit is maintaining close contact with them. As the container has not yet been located, a time scale for recovery cannot be predicted.Departmental Mail (Bomb Attack)
Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) whether he gave any indication to the Post Office on or before 16 March as to when his Department believed that the letters to airport authorities and Pan American Airlines had been posted ; and what representations he made to the Post Office in relation to the Post Office's plans to make a statement refuting allegations that the letters had been lost ;
(2) what contact took place between the Post Office and his Department on matters relating to the letter he sent to airport authorities and Pan American Airlines warning them of the threatened bomb attack in the week beginning 12 March ; and what assurances were sought by, or given to, the Post Office by his Department on whether a statement would be made on 16 March by his Department on this matter.
Mr. Peter Bottomley [holding answer 23 March 1989] : Post Office officials were in touch with those of the Department during the afternoon and evening of 16 March. We made it clear that the circular dated 19 December had not been posted until later and that the Department had no complaints about the way the Post Office had handled it. My right hon. Friend said so that afternoon.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Category A Prisoners
Mr. Moss : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the breakdown of category A prisoners in England and Wales under the groupings (a) convicted Irish Republican Army terrorists, (b) international terrorists, (c) murderers, (d) armed robbers, (e) rapists, (f) drug dealers, and (g) others (i) in total and (ii) listed by each prison.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The information readily available centrally is given in the following table. Further figures could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.
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|c|Convicted adult male prisoners in category A in prisons in England and Wales on 31 December 1988: by type of offender|c|
|IRA terrorists |Other terrorists |Sex offenders including |Armed robbers and drugs |Others (mainly murderers)|Totals
|some murderers |dealers
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Albany |7 |5 |27 |17 |7 |63
Birmingham |- |- |- |2 |2 |4
Bristol |- |- |- |- |2 |2
Chelmsford |- |- |- |- |1 |1
Coldingley |- |- |- |- |1 |1
Frankland |7 |4 |11 |22 |15 |59
Full Sutton |4 |1 |7 |11 |8 |31
Gartree |9 |4 |3 |19 |15 |50
Hull |- |- |1 |- |3 |4
Leeds |- |- |2 |- |1 |3
Leicester |3 |- |2 |4 |1 |10
Lincoln |- |- |2 |- |3 |5
Liverpool |- |- |1 |1 |1 |3
Long Lartin |7 |5 |16 |22 |19 |69
Manchester |- |- |1 |1 |2 |4
Parkhurst |7 |2 |2 |14 |17 |42
Wakefield |- |2 |49 |1 |18 |70
Wandsworth |- |- |2 |18 |2 |22
Winchester |- |- |- |- |1 |1
Wormwood Scrubs |2 |- |13 |3 |8 |26
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |---
Totals |46 |23 |139 |135 |127 |470
Mr. Moss : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) successful escapes and (b) unsuccessful escape attempts there have been from prisons in England and Wales by category A prisoners in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : During this period, there have been two incidents involving escapes from within prison establishments. In 1980, three unconvicted prisoners who had been provisionally placed in category A escaped from Brixton prison. In 1987, one provisional and one confirmed category A prisoner escaped from Gartree prison in a helicopter. Detailed inquiries were conducted following both incidents and measures were taken to prevent a similar escape in the future.
The other information is not available in the form requested by my hon. Friend. Maximum security prisons have a high level of physical security designed to deter and prevent either an assisted or an unassisted escape attempt. Security measures are constantly under review.
Mr. Livingstone : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy towards (a) parole and (b) rehabilitation for category A prisoners.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : No prisoner, whatever his security category, is prevented from having his case considered for release on parole. However since one of the main concerns in considering suitability for parole is the safety of the
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public, it is unlikely that a prisoner whilst in category A--the highest security category--would be released on licence.Category A prisoners are offered as full and constructive a regime as is consistent with the requirements of security and there are many opportunities for them to improve, for example, work and social skills and education. The aim, as with all prisoners, is to help them lead law-abiding and useful lives in custody and after release.
Mr. Livingstone : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether category A prisoners are provided with assistance in drawing up their resettlement plans.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Yes. Assistance is freely available on request to all prisoners, regardless of security category, from the probation service and welfare organisations.
Prisoner (Statistics)
Mr. Moss : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the numbers of category A, B and other prisoners in each prison in England and Wales, listed by prison and by county address.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The latest information readily available centrally is given in the following table.
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|c|Population<1> of adult male sentenced prisoners in prisons and remand centres in England and Wales|c|
|c|on 31 December 1988: by security category and prison|c|
Prison or remand centre |A |B |C |D |Not recorded |Total population
(County)
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Remand centres
Latchmere House (London) |- |- |- |- |27 |27
Risley (Cheshire) |- |1 |30 |1 |35 |67
Local prisons
Ashford (Surrey) |- |- |4 |1 |16 |21
Bedford (Bedford) |- |3 |47 |21 |23 |94
Birmingham (West Midlands) |4 |58 |297 |82 |88 |529
Bristol (Avon) |2 |104 |133 |30 |110 |379
Brixton (London) |- |3 |8 |2 |113 |126
Canterbury (Kent) |- |5 |33 |21 |38 |97
Cardiff (South Glamorgan) |- |14 |62 |16 |184 |276
Chelmsford (Essex) |1 |1 |3 |3 |88 |96
Dorchester (Dorset) |- |31 |33 |2 |17 |83
Durham (Durham) |- |57 |287 |50 |320 |714
Exeter (Devon) |- |21 |40 |13 |130 |204
Gloucester (Gloucester) |- |10 |100 |36 |52 |198
Hull (Humberside) |4 |29 |113 |59 |34 |239
Leeds (West Yorkshire) |3 |69 |207 |44 |208 |531
Leicester (Leicestershire) |10 |28 |91 |20 |37 |186
Lewes (East Sussex) |- |13 |49 |11 |52 |125
Lincoln (Lincolnshire) |5 |21 |196 |35 |34 |291
Liverpool (Merseyside) |3 |147 |608 |53 |424 |1,235
Manchester (Greater Manchester) |4 |100 |434 |77 |248 |863
Norwich (Norfolk) |- |12 |120 |14 |46 |192
Oxford (Oxfordshire) |- |7 |51 |39 |28 |125
Pentonville (London) |- |10 |144 |47 |397 |598
Reading (Berkshire) |- |10 |48 |19 |49 |126
Shrewsbury (Salop) |- |8 |83 |10 |77 |178
Swansea (West Glamorgan) |- |13 |51 |10 |64 |138
Wandsworth (London) |22 |222 |400 |51 |761 |1,456
Winchester (Hampshire) |1 |71 |158 |16 |47 |293
Wormwood Scrubs (London) |26 |52 |18 |28 |271 |395
Closed training prisons
Acklington (Northumberland) |- |- |394 |8 |23 |425
Albany (Isle of Wight) |63 |215 |58 |3 |45 |384
Aldington (Kent) |- |- |79 |20 |20 |119
Ashwell (Leicestershire) |- |- |310 |31 |24 |365
Blantyre House (Kent) |- |- |77 |1 |- |78
Blundeston (Suffolk) |- |151 |162 |36 |61 |410
Camp Hill (Isle of Wight) |- |- |382 |41 |66 |489
Channings Wood (Devon) |- |- |457 |41 |24 |522
Coldingley (Surrey) |1 |64 |151 |46 |35 |297
Dartmoor (Devon) |- |352 |220 |26 |28 |626
Erlestoke (Wiltshire) |- |3 |168 |25 |15 |211
Featherstone (West Midlands) |- |- |482 |44 |11 |537
Frankland (Durham) |59 |303 |17 |- |16 |395
Full Sutton (North Yorkshire) |31 |147 |69 |2 |7 |256
Garth (Lancashire) |- |207 |23 |- |106 |336
Gartree (Leicestershire) |50 |228 |18 |- |13 |309
Grendon (Buckinghamshire) |- |116 |71 |5 |11 |203
Haverigg (Cumbria) |- |- |246 |11 |18 |275
Highpoint (Suffolk) |- |- |384 |88 |253 |725
Lancaster (Lancashire) |- |- |234 |15 |9 |258
Lewes (East Sussex) |- |80 |22 |3 |20 |125
Lindholme (South Yorkshire) |- |- |527 |131 |44 |702
Littlehey (Cambridgeshire) |- |- |403 |14 |24 |441
Long Lartin (Hereford and Worcester) |69 |308 |12 |2 |10 |401
Maidstone (Kent) |- |334 |144 |35 |27 |540
Northeye (East Sussex) |- |- |101 |33 |89 |223
Norwich (Britannia) (Norfolk) |- |- |119 |36 |39 |194
Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) |- |115 |154 |15 |11 |295
Parkhurst (Isle of Wight) |42 |168 |14 |1 |10 |235
Portsmouth (Kingston) (Hampshire) |- |122 |7 |5 |9 |143
Preston (Lancashire) |- |1 |303 |19 |23 |346
Ranby (Nottinghamshire) |- |- |331 |12 |- |343
Send (Surrey) |- |- |62 |16 |24 |102
Shepton Mallet (Somerset) |- |- |210 |16 |13 |239
Stafford (Staffordshire) |- |- |695 |50 |53 |798
Stocken (Leicestershire) |- |- |283 |7 |4 |294
Swaleside (Kent) |- |171 |19 |8 |194 |392
Thorp Arch (West Yorkshire) |- |- |126 |21 |8 |155
The Verne (Dorset) |- |- |552 |20 |22 |594
Wakefield (West Yorkshire) |70 |563 |36 |17 |43 |729
Wayland (Norfolk) |- |- |362 |58 |55 |475
Wymott (Lancashire) |- |- |606 |49 |71 |726
Open training prisons
Ford (West Sussex) |- |- |- |493 |- |493
Highpoint (Suffolk) |- |- |- |69 |- |69
Kirkham (Lancashire) |- |- |- |537 |- |537
Leyhill (Gloucestershire) |- |- |- |370 |- |370
Morton Hall (Lincolnshire) |- |- |- |155 |- |155
North Sea Camp (Lincolnshire) |- |- |- |89 |- |89
Rudgate (West Yorkshire) |- |- |- |305 |- |305
Spring Hill (Buckinghamshire) |- |- |- |199 |- |199
Standford Hill (Kent) |- |- |- |387 |- |387
Sudbury (Derbyshire) |- |- |- |496 |- |496
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
All prisons and remand centres |470 |4,768 |12,938 |4,922 |5,596 |28,694
<1>The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost.
Crime (South Wales)
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what factors account for the fact that the incidence of crime has risen in south Wales when it has fallen nationally.
Mr. John Patten : In south Wales in 1988, 116,988 offences were recorded compared to 111,642 in 1987. Burglaries fell by 5 per cent., but there were 7,000 more thefts of or from motor vehicles. The south Wales police will be targeting car crime in the coming year. Members of the public can help by taking sensible crime prevention measures.
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