§ Lord McIntosh of Haringeyasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they expect to complete the present process of notification to prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment of the actual minimum period they may expect to spend in custody.
§ Baroness BlatchThe exercise to disclose tariff information to some 2,300 mandatory life sentence prisoners in the prison system will be completed within the next few weeks.
A separate exercise to give disclosure to the some 120 mandatory life sentence prisoners who have been transferred to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 will begin in February.