§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when prisoner N18072 will be 61W subject to parole review; how long he has been custody; when he was reduced to category C status; when F75 reports were completed on him; if the Director General has responded to the request for information on the prisoner from the Chief Inspector; if the report writers at HMP Kingston recommend open conditions; and how many letters from the Worthing outside probation officer to his Department are unanswered. [86353]
§ Mr. George HowarthPrisoner number N18072 is due to have a Parole Board review in October 2000. He has been in custody since 13 October 1983 and was convicted of murder on 28 January 1985. He was reduced to category C status on 12 April 1996 and his most recent F75 reports were completed in December 1996. None of the report writers at Kingston prison recommended a move to open conditions.
The Director General of the Prison Service wrote to the prisoner on 30 May 1999 in response to a request for information from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons.
The Prison Service lifer management and lifer review units have no indication that any letters from the Worthing outside probation officer remain unanswered, nor is Kingston prison aware of any such letters.