§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons convicted of murder since 1957 were sentenced to life imprisonment; and what length of sentence was served by those who have since been released.
§ Mr. MayhewThe numbers suspected of homicide who were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment are published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—tables 4.7 and 4.8 of the issue for 1980, Cmnd. 8376. For the information available on the time served under sentence by such prisoners I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton (Mr. Forman) on 20 April 1982.—[Vol. 22, c. 72.]