§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 13 January 2000,Official Report, columns 217–18W, on prisoner statistics, if he will reformulate the table provided on Sudbury prison to show the number of prisoners serving a life sentence. [105662]
§ Mr. BoatengThe information requested, updated to December 1999, is given in the table.
Total population and life sentence population at Her Majesty's Prison Sudbury 1989–99 Date Life sentence prisoners Life sentence prisoners as a percentage of the total population Total population 1989 30 June 69 12.8 537 31 December 67 12.9 518 1990 30 June 77 14.7 524 31 December 75 16.2 464 1991 30 June 50 9.4 534 31 December 42 9.6 436 1992 30 June 37 8.2 450 31 December 43 10.7 402 1993 30 June 50 11.0 455 31 December 71 17.5 406 1994 30 June 79 17.9 441 31 December 80 20.0 401 1995 30 June 81 20.9 387 31 December 81 21.5 377 1996 30 June 76 16.0 474 31 December 64 14.0 456 1997 30 June 62 12.3 504 31 December 62 13.4 462 1998 30 June 62 12.6 493 31 December 72 14.8 488 1999 30 June 75 15.0 499 31 December 91 18.7 486
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in his projection of prison numbers for the next five years, what proportion of prisoners 17W will be (a) female, (b) offenders in respect of cannabis, (c) class A drug offenders and (d) housed in hospital wings. [105928]
§ Mr. BoatengThe Research Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office provided revised projections of the prison population in England and Wales in October 1999. A summary of the projection is included in the October 1999 "Prison Population Brief" which is available on the Internet at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/index.htm.
Projections are provided according to various alternative scenarios. The middle variant projection assumes that Crown Court custody rates increase at 0.6 per cent. for males and 1.1 per cent. per annum for females, but sentence
Long-term projections projected through to 2007, England and Wales 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Higher variant: Total population 67,800 71,500 72,900 73,700 75,100 76,900 78,600 80,300 Female population 3,700 4,100 4,500 4,600 4,700 4,800 4,900 5,000 Females as a percentage of total population 5.5 5.7 6.2 6.2 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 Middle variant: Total population 67,300 69,900 70,700 71,200 71,800 72,500 73,500 74,400 Female population 3,700 4,000 4,200 4,200 4,300 4,300 4,400 4,500 Females as a percentage of total population 5.5 5.7 5.9 5.9 6.0 5.9 6.0 6.0