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Prisoners

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the (a) battery and (b) mains electrical equipment that prisoners are permitted to keep in their cells; and if he will make a statement. [60077]

Fiona Mactaggart: Battery and mains electrical equipment that prisoners are permitted to retain in their cells varies between prisons. The list of in-possession items for each establishment is set by the governor. Televisions are not considered in-cell possessions, as they are hired from the public sector Prison Service.

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 March, to question 58643, on prisoners, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the information requested. [60350]

Fiona Mactaggart: The cost exceeds the limit set out in Cabinet Office guidance for answering parliamentary questions.

Prisons

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the prison population is being held on remand (a) at each prison and (b) in aggregate; and what proportion of inmates on remand at each prison are awaiting (i) trial and (ii) sentence. [59312]

Fiona Mactaggart: The information requested, as recorded on the Prison Service IT System, is provided in the table.
Population of prisoners held on remand and total prison population in England and Wales as at 31 January 2006.

Prisoners held on remand
PrisonRemand population (Column B)Untried (Column C)Convicted unsentenced (Column D)Untried as percentage of all remand (ColumnC/ Column B)Convicted unsentenced as percentage of all remand (ColumnD /Column B)Remand population as percentage of total population (ColumnB/ Column H)Total prison population (Column H)
Acklington000000831
Albany000000528
Altcourse308191117623832958
Ashfield634320683219332
Ashwell000000540
Askham Grange000000119
Aylesbury000000437
Bedford1499257623832472
Belmarsh431305126712947914
Birmingham5663701966535391,443
Blakenhurst4082541546238391,039
Blantyre House000000119
Blundestone000000456
Brinsford281156125564460469
Bristol239135104564440598
Brixton461311150673357802
Brockhill866026703062139
Bronzefield24716483663460410
Buckley Hall000000153
Bullingdon22713295584224953
Bullwood Hall000000145
Camp Hill000000586
Canterbury000000309
Cardiff19910396524827726
Castington925933643628332
Channings Wood000000647
Chelmsford246129117524844558
Coldingley000000378
Cookham Wood11010001176
Dartmoor000000616
Deerbolt000000382
Doncaster3802201605842341,105
Dorchester1056045574344241
Dovegate000000833
Dover000000271
Downview55010002325
Drake Hall000000284
Durham320208112653540792
East Sutton Park00000094
Eastwood Park915041554531295
Edmunds Hill000000292
Elmley336210126633834980
Erlestoke000000425
Everthorpe000000653
Exeter21711899544644497
Featherstone000000607
Feltham517386131752581636
Ford000000464
Forest Bank359221138623837980
Foston Hall2291341599241
Frankland000000698
Full Sutton000000574
Garth000000660
Gartree000000491
Glen Parva19011179584227714
Gloucester1396970505050280
Grendon/Spring Hill000000518
Guys Marsh000000562
Haslar000000143
Haverigg000000554
Hewell Grange000000149
Highdown320218102683243740
Highpoint0o0000808
Hindley452421534711403
Hollesle–Bay000000247
Holloway215105110495148444
Holme House17011060653519900
Hull273160113594128960
Huntercombe000000323
Kingston (Portsmouth)000000193
Kirkham000000445
Kirklevington000000222
Lancaster000000233
Lancaster Farms1004456445622463
Latchmere House000000175
Leeds2871571305545261,120
Leicester17910970613952346
Lewes21814375663440540
Leyhill000000396
Lincoln1287157554528464
Lindholme000000800
Littlehey000000691
Liverpool2881821066337231,269
Long Lartin000000434
Low Newton462620574321218
Lowdham Grange000000518
Maidstone000000553
Manchester3722271456139301,239
Moorland Open000000250
Moorland000000756
Norton Hall000000277
New Hall733043415923324
North Sea Camp000000253
Northallerton000000152
Morwich22213290594129755
Nottingham248129119524849508
Onley000000563
Pare87503757439987
Parkhurst20101050504504
Pentonville7355092266931651,129
Peterborough19912079604025793
Portland000000425
Preston302177125594151594
Ranby0000001,016
Reading1306367485245288
Risley0000001,066
Rochester000000384
Rye Hill000000590
Send000000201
Shepton Mallet000000183
Shrewsbury–1065749544633320
Stafford000000674
Standford Hill000000416
Stocken000000603
Stoke Heath3930977236614
Styal1206951584332376
Sudbury000000551
Swaleside000000770
Swansea1086543604029370
Swinfen Hall000000601
The Mount000000719
The Verne000000557
The Wolds000000299
Thorn Cross000000253
Usk/Prescoed000000415
Wakefield000000593
Wandsworth5933732206337401,469
Warren Hill413011732720208
Wayland000000703
Wealstun000000774
Wellingborough000000580
Werrington000000116
Wetherby533221604017316
Whatton000000357
Whitemoor000000454
Winchester296166130564442701
Woodhill335229106683243772
Wormwood Scrubs4962942025941401,228
Wymott0000001,044
Total13,5298,3135,21661391875,920

 
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Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of women entering custody did so on remand in each year since 1997. [59313]

Fiona Mactaggart: Information on women prisoners entering custody and held on remand in each year since 1997 is given in the following table.
 
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Proportion of women entering custody on remand each year since 1997(57)

Women prisoner receptions on remandTotal women prisoner first receptionsProportion on remand (percentage)
19975,1248,50860
19986,2589,99563
19996,72110,87562
20006,58410,68262
20017,19111,25264
20028,69012,60169
20039,03212,94670
20047,97812,55464


(57) Source—Table 7.1 of Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004
Note:
First receptions provide an indication of the number of new prisoners in a time period. A person received into prison to serve a sentence may previously have been received on remand after conviction prior to sentence, and before that as a remand prisoner awaiting trial. First receptions will count that prisoner only once in the relevant period in which they were first received.





 
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Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many inmates held on remand received a non-custodial sentence in each year since 1997. [59314]

Fiona Mactaggart: The final court outcome for persons remanded in custody at some stage in magistrates court proceedings, for 2000–04, is given in table 7.11 of the web-only tables for Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004 available at the following web address:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/omcs.html

Similar information for 1997–99 is published in Table 2.6 of Prison Statistics England and Wales 1999, a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library.


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