HC Deb 17 March 1994 vol 239 c768W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) male and (b) female prison inmates were serving life sentences in prisons in England and Wales on 1 March.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Responsibility 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 17 March 1994: POPULATION OF LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your Parliamentary Question about the population of life sentence prisoners in Prison Service establishments. The latest available information is for 31 January 1994 and shows that there were 3,148 prisoners in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales serving life sentences, of whom 3,040 were men and 108 were women.