§ Miss Maynardasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give any indication of the number of prisoners convicted of offences of mutiny or incitement to mutiny or doing gross personal violence to a prison officer who are still serving prison sentences and who were, during the currency of that prison sentence, convicted of such offences and sentenced to loss of remission or any other award.
§ Mr. HurdThe only readily available information is published in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales"586W (tables 9(g), 9(h), and 9(i) of the issue for 1982, Cmnd 9027). Information about which of these offences were committed by prisoners who are still serving sentences is not recorded centrally.
§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why there has been a statistical increase over the last five years in the number of disposals not recorded in respect of prisoners received into custody prior to trial, as shown in his reply to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton), Official Report, 27 April, columns 617–18.
§ Mr. HurdThe statistics for the most recent year are always less complete because they are compiled before some cases have reached disposal. Since 1980 there has also been an increase in non-recording, presumably associated with the work involved in tracing the outcome of cases, which can be considerable.