§ Mr. CorbettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of prisoners remanded on criminal charges currently receive a custodial sentence following conviction. [24826]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility 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 Richard Tilt to Mr. Robin Corbett, dated 17 April 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking what percentage of prisoners remanded on criminal charges currently receive a custodial sentence following conviction.The available information on the proportion of remand prisoners in England and Wales subsequently receiving a custodial sentence is given in table 2.6 of "Prison statistics, England and Wales 1994" (Cm 3087), a copy of which is in the Library.