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Mr. Bermingham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment have served (a)more than 10 years, (b)15 years or more, (c)20 years or more and (d)25 years or more, in each year since 1987 in England and Wales.
Mrs. Rumbold
The readily available information is published annually in "Prison Statistics England and Wales" (Table 8.3 of the latest volume, for 1990, Cm. 1800), copies of which are in the Library.
| Applications1 2received for asylum in the United Kingdom, by nationality: January to December 1991 and January 1992 | |||||||
| January 1991 | February 1991 | March 1991 | April 1991 | May 1991 | June 1991 | July 1991 | |
| Europe and Americas | |||||||
| Bulgaria | 15 | 45 | 40 | 40 | 55 | 45 | 30 |
| Colombia | 20 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 15 | — | 5 |
| Romania | 25 | 65 | 80 | 50 | 35 | 25 | 40 |
| Turkey | 370 | 205 | 180 | 205 | 145 | 160 | 205 |
| USSR | 10 | 35 | 10 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 10 |
| Others | * | 5 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 10 |
| TOTAL | 440 | 370 | 340 | 350 | 285 | 260 | 295 |
| Africa | |||||||
| Angola | 420 | 370 | 600 | 940 | 530 | 440 | 520 |
| Congo | 30 | 15 | 30 | 40 | — | 20 | 20 |