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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
Prison	Remand 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)
Acklington	0	0	0	0	0	0	831
Albany	0	0	0	0	0	0	528
Altcourse	308	191	117	62	38	32	958
Ashfield	63	43	20	68	32	19	332
Ashwell	0	0	0	0	0	0	540
Askham Grange	0	0	0	0	0	0	119
Aylesbury	0	0	0	0	0	0	437
Bedford	149	92	57	62	38	32	472
Belmarsh	431	305	126	71	29	47	914
Birmingham	566	370	196	65	35	39	1,443
Blakenhurst	408	254	154	62	38	39	1,039
Blantyre House	0	0	0	0	0	0	119
Blundestone	0	0	0	0	0	0	456
Brinsford	281	156	125	56	44	60	469
Bristol	239	135	104	56	44	40	598
Brixton	461	311	150	67	33	57	802
Brockhill	86	60	26	70	30	62	139
Bronzefield	247	164	83	66	34	60	410
Buckley Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	153
Bullingdon	227	132	95	58	42	24	953
Bullwood Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	145
Camp Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	586
Canterbury	0	0	0	0	0	0	309
Cardiff	199	103	96	52	48	27	726
Castington	92	59	33	64	36	28	332
Channings Wood	0	0	0	0	0	0	647
Chelmsford	246	129	117	52	48	44	558
Coldingley	0	0	0	0	0	0	378
Cookham Wood	1	1	0	100	0	1	176
Dartmoor	0	0	0	0	0	0	616
Deerbolt	0	0	0	0	0	0	382
Doncaster	380	220	160	58	42	34	1,105
Dorchester	105	60	45	57	43	44	241
Dovegate	0	0	0	0	0	0	833
Dover	0	0	0	0	0	0	271
Downview	5	5	0	100	0	2	325
Drake Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	284
Durham	320	208	112	65	35	40	792
East Sutton Park	0	0	0	0	0	0	94
Eastwood Park	91	50	41	55	45	31	295
Edmunds Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	292
Elmley	336	210	126	63	38	34	980
Erlestoke	0	0	0	0	0	0	425
Everthorpe	0	0	0	0	0	0	653
Exeter	217	118	99	54	46	44	497
Featherstone	0	0	0	0	0	0	607
Feltham	517	386	131	75	25	81	636
Ford	0	0	0	0	0	0	464
Forest Bank	359	221	138	62	38	37	980
Foston Hall	22	9	13	41	59	9	241
Frankland	0	0	0	0	0	0	698
Full Sutton	0	0	0	0	0	0	574
Garth	0	0	0	0	0	0	660
Gartree	0	0	0	0	0	0	491
Glen Parva	190	111	79	58	42	27	714
Gloucester	139	69	70	50	50	50	280
Grendon/Spring Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	518
Guys Marsh	0	0	0	0	0	0	562
Haslar	0	0	0	0	0	0	143
Haverigg	0	0	0	0	0	0	554
Hewell Grange	0	0	0	0	0	0	149
Highdown	320	218	102	68	32	43	740
Highpoint	0	o	0	0	0	0	808
Hindley	45	24	21	53	47	11	403
Hollesle–Bay	0	0	0	0	0	0	247
Holloway	215	105	110	49	51	48	444
Holme House	170	110	60	65	35	19	900
Hull	273	160	113	59	41	28	960
Huntercombe	0	0	0	0	0	0	323
Kingston (Portsmouth)	0	0	0	0	0	0	193
Kirkham	0	0	0	0	0	0	445
Kirklevington	0	0	0	0	0	0	222
Lancaster	0	0	0	0	0	0	233
Lancaster Farms	100	44	56	44	56	22	463
Latchmere House	0	0	0	0	0	0	175
Leeds	287	157	130	55	45	26	1,120
Leicester	179	109	70	61	39	52	346
Lewes	218	143	75	66	34	40	540
Leyhill	0	0	0	0	0	0	396
Lincoln	128	71	57	55	45	28	464
Lindholme	0	0	0	0	0	0	800
Littlehey	0	0	0	0	0	0	691
Liverpool	288	182	106	63	37	23	1,269
Long Lartin	0	0	0	0	0	0	434
Low Newton	46	26	20	57	43	21	218
Lowdham Grange	0	0	0	0	0	0	518
Maidstone	0	0	0	0	0	0	553
Manchester	372	227	145	61	39	30	1,239
Moorland Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	250
Moorland	0	0	0	0	0	0	756
Norton Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	277
New Hall	73	30	43	41	59	23	324
North Sea Camp	0	0	0	0	0	0	253
Northallerton	0	0	0	0	0	0	152
Morwich	222	132	90	59	41	29	755
Nottingham	248	129	119	52	48	49	508
Onley	0	0	0	0	0	0	563
Pare	87	50	37	57	43	9	987
Parkhurst	20	10	10	50	50	4	504
Pentonville	735	509	226	69	31	65	1,129
Peterborough	199	120	79	60	40	25	793
Portland	0	0	0	0	0	0	425
Preston	302	177	125	59	41	51	594
Ranby	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,016
Reading	130	63	67	48	52	45	288
Risley	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,066
Rochester	0	0	0	0	0	0	384
Rye Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	590
Send	0	0	0	0	0	0	201
Shepton Mallet	0	0	0	0	0	0	183
Shrewsbury–	106	57	49	54	46	33	320
Stafford	0	0	0	0	0	0	674
Standford Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	416
Stocken	0	0	0	0	0	0	603
Stoke Heath	39	30	9	77	23	6	614
Styal	120	69	51	58	43	32	376
Sudbury	0	0	0	0	0	0	551
Swaleside	0	0	0	0	0	0	770
Swansea	108	65	43	60	40	29	370
Swinfen Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0	601
The Mount	0	0	0	0	0	0	719
The Verne	0	0	0	0	0	0	557
The Wolds	0	0	0	0	0	0	299
Thorn Cross	0	0	0	0	0	0	253
Usk/Prescoed	0	0	0	0	0	0	415
Wakefield	0	0	0	0	0	0	593
Wandsworth	593	373	220	63	37	40	1,469
Warren Hill	41	30	11	73	27	20	208
Wayland	0	0	0	0	0	0	703
Wealstun	0	0	0	0	0	0	774
Wellingborough	0	0	0	0	0	0	580
Werrington	0	0	0	0	0	0	116
Wetherby	53	32	21	60	40	17	316
Whatton	0	0	0	0	0	0	357
Whitemoor	0	0	0	0	0	0	454
Winchester	296	166	130	56	44	42	701
Woodhill	335	229	106	68	32	43	772
Wormwood Scrubs	496	294	202	59	41	40	1,228
Wymott	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,044
Total	13,529	8,313	5,216	61	39	18	75,920

 
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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 remand	Total women prisoner first receptions	Proportion on remand (percentage)
1997	5,124	8,508	60
1998	6,258	9,995	63
1999	6,721	10,875	62
2000	6,584	10,682	62
2001	7,191	11,252	64
2002	8,690	12,601	69
2003	9,032	12,946	70
2004	7,978	12,554	64

⁽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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