HC Deb 26 June 2000 vol 352 cc397-8W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the increase in the proportion of women prisoners over the next five years. [126125]

Mr. Boateng

Over the next five years, the current middle variant projection is for the proportion of female prisoners in Prison Service establishments to increase from an average 5.2 per cent. in 2000 to 5.4 per cent. in 2005.