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Mr. Carrington
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the latest figures for numbers of remand prisoners held in police cells; and what were the comparable figures six months and one year ago.
Mr. Mellor
On Wednesday 6 December, there were no remand prisoners held in police cells in England and Wales. Comparable figures for 6 December 1988 and 5 May 1989 were 945 and 210 prisoners respectively, most of whom were on remand.