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Mr. Amess
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for each year of the past five years, how many people were serving life sentences in Her Majesty's prisons.
Mr. Mellor
The information requested is published annually in "Prison Statistics England and Wales" (table 1.4 of the latest issue for 1985, Cmnd. 9903). Information for 1986 is not yet available.