To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his Department's projected prison population for 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999; and if he will make a statement.

The latest projections of the prison population were published in a Home Office statistical bulletin "Updated projections of long term trends in the prison population to 1998"—issue 33/90, dated 24 October 1990—a copy of which is in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the sentenced and remand population in England and Wales for the latest date available; and how many prisoners were being held in police cells on the same date.

The latest available information is that on 30 September 1990, a total of 9,377 remand, 214 non-criminal and 34,888 sentenced prisoners were held in prison service establishments. A further 1,009 were held in police cells of whom the majority were remand prisoners.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each of the years between 1975 and 1990, the proportion of adults imprisoned per 100,000 of the population.

[holding answer 12 November 1990]: The information is given in the table.