HC Deb 10 March 1994 vol 239 c358W
Mr. Gunnell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners serving the mandatory life sentence for murder have been released on life licence during the last 15 years.

Mr. Maclean

The available information is published annually in successive volumes of "Prison Statistics England and Wales"—table 8.5 of the latest volume, for 1991, Cm 2157—a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library.

Mr. Gunnell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a list of those prisoners serving the mandatory life sentence for murder who have been released on life licence during the last 15 years.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I will write to the hon. Member.