§ Vera BairdTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many women in prison in the United Kingdom are convicted of (a) murder and (b) manslaughter of male partners and former partners; [55277]
(2) how many men in United Kingdom prisons have been convicted of (a) murder and (b) manslaughter of female partners and former partners. [55280]
§ Beverley HughesNo data are held centrally on whether people in prisons in England and Wales were related in any way to the victim or victims of their crime.
Provisional information shows that at the latest available date (31 March 2002) there were 3,533 males and 138 females in prisons in England and Wales that had been convicted of murder, and 583 males and 42 females that had been convicted of manslaughter.
Chapter Four of "Criminal Statistics England and Wales" contains further information on homicides and the relationship between the victim and the main suspect of the crime. Extracts of the 2000 edition are available at the website address: http://www.archive.officialdocuments.co.uk/document/cm53/5312/crimestats.pdf.
Information about prisoners in Scotland and Northern Ireland should be sought from the Scottish Executive (Helen Liddell) and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland respectively.