Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been held on remand in each month since May 2010.
Bail and remand decisions are quite rightly for the courts to make, based on the facts of the particular case.
In making remand decisions, courts must balance the risk that release on bail might pose to the public or to the administration of justice, against the detention of a person who may prove to be innocent. Defendants who are dangerous and pose a threat to society should always be remanded in custody.
Information on the number of prisoners held on remand in each month in England and Wales is published routinely in the ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin’ and can be found in Table A1.1 via the following link:
More current data can be found in Table 1.1 of the prison population tables via the following link: