§ Mr. BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list all members of(a) proscribed loyalist and (b) proscribed republican organisations who are convicted prisoners in custody in England and Wales, giving in each case the date of their original conviction, their offence or offences, the length of sentence given and their paramilitary affiliation.
§ 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 Mr. A Butler to Mr. Harry Barnes, dated 18 January 1994:
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police Police force area 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 Recorded crimes per police officer1 South Wales 21 23 24 27 27 29 30 33 33 35 35 42 49 51 Thames Valley 26 23 25 28 28 30 31 33 32 29 32 39 49 50 Kent 18 17 18 21 21 23 24 24 25 25 26 32 43 49 Lancashire 16 16 18 20 20 22 22 24 25 26 24 29 33 35 Avon and Somerset 17 18 20 22 22 24 26 30 32 31 31 40 48 55 Hampshire 21 20 23 25 25 27 28 30 30 28 30 36 43 45 Total non-metropolitan England and Wales 19 19 21 23 24 25 26 28 28 27 29 35 41 44 Wales only 19 19 21 23 24 25 26 28 29 29 29 34 40 42 Recorded crimes per 100,000 population1 South Wales 5,077 5,432 5,749 6,468 6,543 7,089 7,191 8,089 8,222 8,576 8,617 10,205 11,932 12,355 The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking for details of convicted prisoners in custody in England and Wales who are members of proscribed organisations.
It is not the practice to discuss the claimed or suspected affiliation of individual prisoners to particular organisations.