§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners from(a) South Yorkshire, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) West Yorkshire and (d) Humberside are currently serving custodial sentences in prisons in Wales; and if he will give for each prisoner, the length of their sentence, when they were committed and the nature of their offence.
§ 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 Derek Lewis to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 24 March 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking how many prisoners from (a) South Yorkshire, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) West Yorkshire and (d) Humberside are currently serving custodial sentences in prisons in Wales; and if he will give for each prisoner, the length of their sentence, when they were committed and the nature of their offence.The information available on where prisoners originate is for the county of the sentencing court. The latest provisional statistics are for 31 December 1993. On that date 3 inmates who had been sentenced by courts in South Yorkshire were held in Prison Service establishments in Wales. Of these, one was serving a life sentence for murder (sentenced in July 1983), one was serving a sentence of 5 years 6 months for indecent assault (sentenced in July 1993) and one was serving a sentence of 2 years 5 months for an offence which is not separately coded (sentenced in November 1992).