asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the location of bail hostels in England and Wales, the number of beds available in each hostel and the percentage occupancy of each hostel during 1984.

The location, number of available places and percentage occupancy during 1984 for the 17 approved bail hostels in England and Wales are as follows:

Name	Location	Approved places on 31 December 1984	Percentage occupancy during 1984
Basildon	Basildon, Essex	15	77
Blackburn	Blackburn, Lancashire	12	77
Clark's House	Oxford	12	74
Corfton Road	Ealing, London	18	73
Curtis House	Liverpool	8	77
Dudley Centre	Newton Abbot, Devon	16	64
Howard House	Leicester	17	89
Howden House	Leeds, West Yorkshire	15	80
Kelley House	London, NW1	12	61
Kew	Kew, London	14	72
Lichfield Road	Stafford	12	83
Marshall House	Wolverhampton, West Midlands	15	61
South Bank	Middlesbrough, Cleveland	20	73
St. Mungo's	Battersea, London	9	89
Tulse Hill	Tulse Hill, London	24	57
Welford	Aston, Birmingham	19	81
Westmorland Road	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	9	71

In addition, there are 16 combined probation and bail hostels with 309 places, of which about half are usually taken by persons on bail, and 65 probation hostels with 1,199 places, which, although mainly intended for persons on probation, will also take a few persons on bail if they have vacancies. On 31 May 1985 there were 528 persons remanded on bail to approved hostels of all types.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average cost per day of a bail bed in a bail hostel and the average cost per day of a prison remand place.

The average cost of an occupied place in approved bail, probation-bail and probation hostels, less payments received from residents, but before deduction of the local authority flat-rate contribution, was £131 a week in the financial year 1983–84. No separate figure is available for the cost of a bail place in a bail hostel, but it is not likely to vary much from this.The costs of holding different types of prisoner in penal establishments are not available. During 1983–84, the latest year for which information is available, the average weekly cost of keeping a person in a local prison or remand centre was £216.