§ 246. Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the last available year what are the figures for those sentenced to a custodial sentence serving a second or subsequent sentence.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is not recorded centrally. The readily available statistics relate to all previous convictions and are published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (tables 3.5, 4.2 and 5.2 of the latest issue, for 1988 (Cmnd. 825)), copies of which are in the Library.