HC Deb 10 March 1981 vol 1000 c279W
Mr. Wheeler

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons, convicted of capital offences under the Homicide Act 1957, whose sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, still remain in prison having never been subject to recall after release on licence.

Mr. Mayhew

On 31 December 1980, four persons were in prison department establishments in England and Wales convicted of capital offences under the Homicide Act 1957, whose sentences had been commuted to life imprisonment and who had not been released on licence subject to recall.