To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 June 2006, Official Report, column 271W, on bail hostels, how many sex offenders were resident at the bail hostel in Wesleyan Road, Peterborough on 31 May 2006; and if he will make a statement. (82006)

[holding answer 4 July 2006]: The number of sex offenders accommodated in any approved premises, (formerly bail and probation hostels) will vary at any one time. Statistical information about the type of offences committed by offenders residing at an approved premises at any one time is not collected centrally.