§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is his estimate of the number of convicted prisoners in prisons in Scotland who are (a) citizens of the Irish Republic, (b) could elect to become citizens of the Irish Republic and (c) have dual United Kingdom/Eire citizenship at the latest available date;
(2) how many convicted prisoners in Scotland were born overseas; and, of those, how many were born in the Irish Republic, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. AncramNo details on which answers to these questions could be based are held centrally and information of the kind needed could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of convicted prisoners in Scottish prisons at the latest available date.
§ Mr. AncramOn 3 July 1984 there were 3.776 inmates serving sentences in Scottish penal institutions. Of these, 2,793 were adult prisoners and 983 were young offenders under the age of 21.