§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners served a sentence in prison as a result of refusal to pay all or part of their income tax in each year from 1980 onwards.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe information requested is no longer recorded centrally. Figures for persons received into prison service custody in the years 1980 to 1987 following committal for non-payment of income tax were published in table 6.3 of "Prison statistics England and Wales 1987"—Cm. 547—a copy of which is in the Library.