asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the certified normal accommodation in Lincoln prison;(2) what is the current population of Lincoln prison.

On 21 June, the certified normal accommodation of Lincoln was 345 and the population was 637.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to relieve the overcrowding at Lincoln prison.

The reopening of Morton hall has already provided some relief. Next month a new category C training prison will open at Stocken in Leicestershire; this will allow some newly sentenced men at Lincoln to be allocated a training place more quickly.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average length of time that remand prisoners are held in Her Majesty's prison, Holloway.

Information on the average time spent on remand in individual establishments is not recorded centrally and could be calculated only at disproportionate cost. The latest available information about the average time spent in custody by all untried and by all convicted but unsentenced female prisoners is published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (Table 2(g) of the latest volume—1983, Cmnd. 9363).

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total availability of education time for the prisoners at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway, over the past four years.

The available information for the period 1 January 1984 to 21 June 1985 is as follows:

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the average amount of time spent by officers at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway, on escort duties over the past four years.

The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. But a special examination of escort duty commitments at Holloway prison revealed that, for the quarter ended 30 September 1984, the average number of hours per officer per week spent on escort duties was just under 10.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the average amount of association time for prisoners at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway, during each month of the last four years.

The information requested is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what have been the total number of medical staff employed at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway (a) in the current year and (b) for each of the past four years.

The medical staff employed at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway was as follows:

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the average number of staff, of all grades, at Her Majesty's prison, Holloway, for each year since 1978 and the average number of prisoners there for each year over the same period.

The figures requested are as follows: