§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) male and (b) female foreign inmates were held in prisons in England and Wales on 8 December.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 15 December 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking how many (a) male and (b) female foreign inmates were held in prisons in England and Wales on 8 December.The latest available provisional information is for 30 September 1994. On that date there were 3,850 non-British citizens (3,535 males and 315 females) in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales. This includes 620 male and 30 female nationals from the Irish Republic. A further 440 persons had no nationality recorded.