asked Her Majesty's Government:Which police forces held Home Office remand prisoners overnight in custody on 1st March 1988; and how many were held by each force.
On 1st March, 1,535 prisoners, most of whom would have been on remand, were held in police cells in England and Wales. The number held by each police force is listed below:
| Avon & Somerset | 15 | Merseyside | 42 |
| Bedfordshire | 15 | Metropolitan | 356 |
| Cheshire | 20 | Norfolk | 34 |
| City of London | 19 | Northamptonshire | 12 |
| Cleveland | 19 | North Wales | 19 |
| Derbyshire | 15 | North Yorkshire | 25 |
| Devon & Cornwall | 16 | Nottinghamshire | 20 |
| Dorset | 9 | Somerset | 11 |
| Essex | 72 | South Wales | 19 |
| Gloucestershire | 10 | South Yorkshire | 126 |
| Greater Manchester | 36 | Suffolk | 17 |
| Gwent | 14 | Surrey | 11 |
| Hampshire | 16 | Sussex | 74 |
| Hertfordshire | 52 | Thames Valley | 63 |
| Humberside | 86 | Warwickshire | 18 |
| Kent | 67 | West Mercia | 16 |
| Lancashire | 45 | West Midlands | 58 |
| Leicestershire | 22 | West Yorkshire | 54 |
| Lincolnshire | 9 | Wiltshire | 3 |
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many men and women remand prisoners respectively have been kept overnight in police custody on every day since 1st January 1988.
The number of male and female prisoners, most of whom would have been on remand, who were held in police custody in England and Wales on each night from 1st January 1988 onward was as follows:
| Males | Females | |
| January | ||
| 1 | 442 | — |
| 2 | 507 | — |
| 3 | 507 | — |
| 4 | 507 | — |
| 5 | 505 | 1 |
| 6 | 524 | 1 |
| 7 | 533 | 2 |
| 8 | 550 | 7 |
| 9 | 608 | 9 |
| 10 | 608 | 9 |
Males
| Females
| |
January
| ||
| 11 | 608 | 9 |
| 12 | 661 | 15 |
| 13 | 639 | 15 |
| 14 | 645 | 15 |
| 15 | 659 | 12 |
| 16 | 720 | 14 |
| 17 | 720 | 14 |
| 18 | 720 | 14 |
| 19 | 718 | 18 |
| 20 | 698 | 15 |
| 21 | 617 | 15 |
| 22 | 641 | 21 |
| 23 | 691 | 19 |
| 24 | 691 | 19 |
| 25 | 691 | 19 |
| 26 | 725 | 27 |
| 27 | 679 | 31 |
| 28 | 670 | 34 |
| 29 | 665 | 35 |
| 30 | 733 | 25 |
| 31 | 733 | 25 |
Males
| Females
| |
February
| ||
| 1 | 733 | 25 |
| 2 | 748 | 23 |
| 3 | 702 | 16 |
| 4 | 665 | 23 |
| 5 | 673 | 12 |
| 6 | 730 | 13 |
| 7 | 730 | 13 |
| 8 | 730 | 13 |
| 9 | 814 | 16 |
| 10 | 875 | 14 |
| 11 | 921 | 10 |
| 12 | 967 | 18 |
| 13 | 1,085 | 25 |
| 14 | 1,085 | 25 |
| 15 | 1,085 | 25 |
| 16 | 1,167 | 32 |
| 17 | 1,175 | 29 |
| 18 | 1,213 | 32 |
| 19 | 1,229 | 31 |
| 20 | 1,302 | 30 |
| 21 | 1,302 | 30 |
| 22 | 1,302 | 30 |
| 23 | 1,386 | 31 |
| 24 | 1,410 | 33 |
| 25 | 1,411 | 43 |
| 26 | 1,448 | 24 |
| 27 | 1,493 | 14 |
| 28 | 1,493 | 14 |
| 29 | 1,493 | 14 |
Males
| Females
| |
March
| ||
| 1 | 1,521 | 14 |
| 2 | 1,540 | 10 |
| 3 | 1,547 | 5 |
| 4 | 1,528 | 5 |
| 5 | 1,510 | 8 |
| 6 | 1,510 | 8 |
| 7 | 1,510 | 8 |
| 8 | 1,554 | 21 |