Remand in Custody

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the current numbers of (1) remand, and (2) unsentenced prisoners, being held in (a) HMP Pentonville, (b) HMP Brixton, (c) HMP Wandsworth, and (d) HMP Belmarsh; and in each case what percentage they comprise of the prison's total population.


Answered by
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Lord Bellamy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 24th May 2023

The attached table shows the untried, and convicted unsentenced, populations in the specified prisons, as at 31 March 2023.

The data needed to calculate average time spent on remand by prisoners in London prisons could not be collated without incurring disproportionate cost.

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