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The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking what percentage of the prison population had been convicted of crimes involving violence for the latest date that figures are available.
Excluding those committed in default of payment of a fine some 49 per cent. of the total sentenced male and female prison population, for whom an offence was recorded, were serving sentences for violence against the person, robbery or for a sexual offence on 30 June 1993.