§ Mr. FraserTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average number of years which have been served by prisoners convicted for murder who have been released in the last two years.
§ Mr. Peter LloydAccording to the records held centrally, which are approximate, the average time served under sentence in prison service establishments by murderers first released on licence in 1990 was 12.4 years. The provisional estimate for 1991 is 12.1 years.
These figures are published annually in "Prison Statistics England and Wales"—table 8.5 of the volume for 1990, Cm 1800.