§ Mr. Stephen Rossasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what processes have to be gone through to establish figures for prison escapes; and if he will now take steps to collate such information.
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§ Dr. SummerskillThe total number of escapes is collated each month. More detailed breakdowns of these figures can be extracted from a central register maintained since 1963, but figures relating to earlier years are frequently unobtainable.