§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) men and (b) women were serving a life prison sentence for murder in England and Wales on 1 January. [149619]
§ Mr. BoatengProvisional information for 31 December 2000 shows that there were 3,325 males and 124 females serving life sentences for murder in prisons in England and Wales at that time. Information on prison population is available in successive volumes of "Prison Statistics England and Wales" (Chapter 1 of the 1999 edition, CM 4805).