Remand Prisoners

Mrs. Wise
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what length of time the current longest serving prisoner has been held on remand awaiting trial.

Mrs. Rumbold
[holding answer 2 March 1992]: According to the records held centrally, which are approximate, on 29 February 1992, the longest period for which a person had been held in custody awaiting or during trial was almost two years.