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Written question asked by David Wilshire (Conservative) on Tuesday, 16 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 December 2008. It was answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Monday, 12 January 2009 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Bronzefield Prison

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many women are being held at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Middlesex; and how many of them are (a) on remand, (b) serving sentences of less than six months, (c) serving sentences of between six and 12 months, (d) serving sentences of between 12 months and five years, (e) serving time-limited sentences of more than five years, (f) serving life sentences and (g) foreign nationals.
Answer

In response to part (a) of the question, there were 201 female prisoners on remand at Bronzefield on 30 September 2008. The information in response to parts (b) to (f) can be found in the following table, which gives figures for the numbers of female prisoners at Bronzefield Prison at the end of September 2008:

Determinate sentences
Less than or equal to 6 months sentence Greater than 6 months and less than 12 months 12 months and up to and including 5 years Over 5 years Indeterminate Total
Sentenced population 74 28 83 10 6 201

In response to (g), there were 103 foreign national female prisoners at Bronzefield Prison at the end of September 2008. The information on the numbers of foreign national prisoners in Bronzefield can be found at Table 4 of the September issue at the following website:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm."These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
486 c502W; 245674
Session
2008-09
Subjects
HMP/YOI Bronzefield
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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