HC Deb 03 November 1988 vol 139 c756W
33. Mr. McLoughlin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the rise over the most recent convenient period in the average sentence for robbery; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. John Patten

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given earlier to the question by my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Bennett).