§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish for the latest convenient year the number of(a) male, (b) female and (c) all prisoners sentenced to imprisonment by courts within Wales; and how many of these spent part or all of their sentences in prisons outside Wales.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility 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 A. J. Butler to Mr. Elfyn Llwyd, dated 14 February 1994:
560WThe Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking if he will publish for the latest convenient year the number of (a) male, (b) female and (c) all prisoners sentenced to imprisonment by courts within Wales; and how many of these spent part or all of their sentences in prisons outside Wales.According to the records held centrally, some 2,876 prisoners, excluding fine defaulters, were first received into Prison Service establishments under sentence from courts in Wales during 1993. Of these 2,755 were male and 121 were female. Information on the numbers who spent part or all of their sentence in Prison Service establishments outside Wales could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The available information is for the establishment of first reception; of those sentenced by courts in Wales in 1993, 690 males and 121 females were first received under sentence into Prison Service establishments outside Wales. There are no female Prison Service establishments in Wales.