HC Deb 13 January 2000 vol 342 cc217-8W
Mr. McLoughlin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate(a) the percentage of prisoners who were serving a life sentence and (b) the number of prisoners in Sudbury Prison at six-monthly intervals over the last 10 years. [104644]

Mr. Boateng

The latest available provisional information for life sentence prisoners is for 30 November 1999. On that date, 7 per cent. of the prison population in England and Wales were life sentence prisoners. Information on the population of Sudbury prison over the last 10 years is given in the table.

Population in Her Majesty's Prison Sudbury 1989–99
Date Number
1989
30 June 537
31 December 518
1990
30 June 524
31 December 464
1991
30 June 534
31 December 436
1992
30 June 450
31 December 402

Population in Her Majesty's Prison Sudbury 1989–99
Date Number
1993
30 June 455
31 December 406
1994
30 June 441
31 December 401
1995
30 June 387
31 December 377
1996
30 June 474
31 December 456
1997
30 June 504
31 December 462
1998
30 June 493
31 December 488
1999
30 June 499
30 November1 505
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