HC Deb 08 June 2004 vol 422 cc322-5W
Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are serving a life sentence; how many of these have served(a) less than 10 years, (b) between 10 and 15 years, (c) between 15 and 20 years, (d) between 20 and 25 years, (e) between 25 and 30 years and (f) longer than 30 years. [173103]

Paul Goggins

The number of life sentence prisoners/ at the end of March 2004 was 5,553 and the table shows the life sentence population at the end of June 2002 by the length of time served.

Population of life prisoners by interval since date of initial reception on life sentence—England and Wales, 30 June 2002
Number of persons
All 5,147
Less than five years 1,928
Five to less than 10 years 1,389
10 to less than 15 years 819
15 to less than 20 years 515
20 to less than 25 years 299
25 to less than 30 years 110
30 years and over 86

Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list prisons which accommodate life sentence inmates; what the capacity of each prison is; and how many and what percentage of prisoners are serving life sentences. [173104]

Paul Goggins

A list of prisons in England and Wales that held life sentence prisoners on 31 March 2004, together with the requested information, is given in the table.

Prisons holding life sentence prisoners, 31 March 2004
Operational capacity Lifer population Total population Percentage of population serving life sentences
Dorchester 260 3 223 1.3
Dovegate 860 129 839 15.4
Drake Hall 315 5 297 1.7
Durham 746 56 725 7.7
East Sutton Park 100 3 97 3.1
Eastwood Park 346 1 334 0.3
Edmunds Hill 310 1 299 0.3
Elmley 985 17 973 1.7
Erlestoke 426 27 421 6.4
Exeter 529 5 516 1.0
Featherstone 615 17 611 2.8
Feltham 761 6 688 0.9
Ford 541 47 527 8.9
ForestBank 1,040 3 994 0.3
Foston Hall 235 30 227 13.2
Frankland 653 275 662 41.5
Full Sutton 608 261 599 43.6
Garth 667 75 659 11.4
Gartree 404 405 406 99.8
Glen Parva 808 1 778 0.1
Gloucester 324 3 302 1.0
Grendon/Spring Hill 567 134 557 24.1
Haverigg 564 16 563 2.8
Hewell Grange 170 5 165 3.0
Highdown 753 5 732 0.7
Highpoint 816 39 807 4.8
Hollesley Bay 330 34 303 11.2
Holloway 495 5 460 1.1
Holme House 994 8 996 0.8
Hull 1,071 11 1,086 1.0
Kingston(Portsmouth) 140 134 136 98.5
Kirkham 590 31 542 5.7
Kirklevington 223 14 217 6.5
Lancaster 232 3 235 1.3
Lancaster Farms 532 2 519 0.4
Latchmere House 196 14 197 7.1
Leeds 1,254 15 1,243 1.2
Leicester 385 5 374 1.3
Lewes 526 8 513 1.6
Leyhill 512 124 498 24.9
Lincoln 481 10 461 2.2
Lindholme 687 53 663 8.0
Littlehey 706 54 698 7.7
Liverpool 1,476 114 1,449 7.9
Long Lartin 442 194 436 44.5
Low Newton 396 1 320 0.3
Maidstone 547 23 548 4.2
Manchester 1,269 126 1,252 10.1
Moorland 1,039 42 1,005 4.2
New Hall 426 4 376 1.1
North Sea Camp 307 43 303 14.2
Norwich 760 10 726 1.4
Nottingham 550 15 509 2.9
Parc 1,028 15 1,016 1.5
Parkhurst 507 52 496 10.5
Pentonville 1,205 8 1,199 0.7
Preston 664 14 675 2.1
Ranby 858 19 858 2.2
Risley 1,073 47 1,060 4.4
Rye Hill 664 117 280 41.8
Send 220 3 209 1.4
Shepton Mallet 189 186 187 99.5
Shrewsbury 350 1 350 0.3
Standford Hill 464 16 423 3.8
Stocken 622 47 621 7.6
Styal 457 18 442 4.1
Sudbury 559 87 556 15.6
Swaleside 777 345 774 44.6
Swansea 348 1 347 0.3
Swinfen Hall 310 34 310 11.0
The Mount 760 26 757 3.4
The Verne 587 32 579 5.5
The Wolds 360 31 358 8.7
Usk/Prescoed 420 39 413 9.4
Wakefield 565 405 562 72.1
Wandsworth 1,441 16 1,432 1.1
Warren Hill 222 6 218 2.8
Wayland 706 40 699 5.7
Wealstun 624 18 568 3.2
Wellingborough 526 27 523 5.2
Whatton 360 9 358 2.5

Prisons holding life sentence prisoners, 31 March 2004
Operational capacity Lifer population Total population Percentage of population serving life sentences
Whitemoor 458 208 423 49.2
Winchester 655 16 591 2.7
Woodhill 789 18 792 2.3
Wormwood Scrubs 1,239 228 1,244 18.3
Wymott 866 38 849 4.5

Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many current life sentence prisoners are detained beyond the expiry of their tariff for(a) less than five years, (b) between five and 10 years, (c) between 10 and 15 years and (d) more than 15 years. [173105]

Paul Goggins

This information is not held centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how marry and what percentage of life sentence prisoners detained more than five years beyond the expiry of their tariff refuse to comply with penal and parole regimes that require the prisoner to admit their guilt or confront offending behaviour. [173106]

Paul Goggins

The information is not held centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.