To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing figures for the Northern Ireland prison population broken down into (a) male, (b) female and (c) juvenile, and showing each category the number of (i) Roman Catholics, (ii) Protestants and (iii) others.

The information requested is as follows:

Northern Ireland prison population as at 31 March 1988 showing religious denominations as slated at time of committal to prison
	Roman Catholic	Protestant	Others	Totals
Male	799	933	5	1,737
Female	17	9	—	26
Juvenile	119	104	1	224
Totals	935	1,046	6	1,987

Juveniles are those inmates detained in young offenders centres and do not include young persons held on remand or under sentence in prison.