Home Department written question – answered at on 26 October 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cells (a) designed for single occupancy were occupied by two inmates and (b) designed for double occupancy were occupied by more than two inmates on 22 June in each of the last nine years for which figures are available; and at what date he expects there to be none in either category.
We do not record the number of cells used to hold prisoners in crowded conditions. We do, however, record the number of prisoners held two in a cell certified for one. On this basis we have estimated the number of such cells in the following table. We do not collect information about the numbers of prisoners held in crowded conditions in larger multi-occupancy rooms. There is no planned date to end the use of crowded conditions for all prisoners.
Number of cells | |
1997-98 | Not available |
1998-99 | 6,012 |
1999-2000 | 6,110 |
2000-01 | 5,564 |
2001-02 | 5,724 |
2002-03 | 7,294 |
2003-04 | 8,181 |
2004-05 | 8,439 |
2005-06 | 8,493 |
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