§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many life licence prisoners are currently in gaols in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThese figures are published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales", chapter 8 of the volume for 1990, Cm 1800.
The provisonal figure for the number of life sentenced prisoners in prison service establishments on 30 June 1991 who had been recalled from licence is 122. This compares with a total population of life sentence prisoners of 2,896 for the same date.