asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are currently serving life sentences in Her Majesty's prisons for a conviction of two or more murders.

[pursuant to his reply, 29 January 1987, c. 342]: Information in the form requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost. According to the records held centrally on 31 December 1985, the latest date for which figures are available, about 120 persons serving sentences for murder in prison department establishments in England and Wales were convicted for the murder, or were recorded as suspected of the homocide, of two or more persons.