Remand Prisoners

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 19 April 1999, Official Report, columns 419–20, on remand prisoners, how many (i) untried and (ii) convicted remand prisoners spent (a) 0–10 days, (b) 11–20 days, (c) 21–30 days, (d) 31 to 50 days, (e) 51 to 100 days, (f) 101 to 150 days, (g) 151 to 250 days and (h) over 250 days in custody in 1998; and what percentage each category represented of the total prison population. [82488]

The available information relates to the length of time since first remanded into prison and is given in the tables.

Untried prisoners in prisons in England and Wales by length of time since first reception on 30 June 1998^1,2
Length of time since first remand into a Prison Service establishment	Number	Percentage of all untried prisoners	Percentage of all prisoners
All lengths	8,358	100	12·7
Up to and including 10 days	1,056	13	1·6
11 to 20 days	950	12	1·4
21 to 30 days	786	9	1·2
31 to 50 days	1,198	14	1·8
51 to 100 days	1,778	21	2·7
101 to 150 days	939	11	1·4
151 to 250 days	939	11	1·4
Over 250 days	712	9	1·1

Convicted unsentenced prisoners in prisons in England and Wales by length of time since first reception on 30 June 1998^1,2
Length of time since first remand into a Prison Service establishment	Number	Percentage of all convicted unsentenced prisoners	Percentage of all prisoners
All lengths	4,545	100	6·9
Up to and including 10 days	560	12	0·9
11 to 20 days	639	14	1·0
21 to 30 days	395	8	0·6
31 to 50 days	521	12	0·8
51 to 100 days	817	18	1·2
101 to 150 days	568	13	0·9
151 to 250 days	596	13	0·9
Over 250 days	449	10	0·7
¹ Time since first reception on remand into a Prison Service establishment. This includes any intervening time spent on bail, but excludes time spent in police cells beforehand.
² Provisional figures

Volume 330: debated on Friday 30 April 1999