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Mr. Hardy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the numbers of those prisoners who escaped from detention and who have not been recaptured in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Peter Lloyd
The table gives the available information, detailing the numbers of prisoners who have escaped from penal establishments, or while being escorted outside penal establishments, and the numbers of escaped prisoners who have been recaptured or who have surrendered. The information is available from 20 June 1988, when a new centralised system for recording incident details was introduced.
| Escapers from penal establishments | Escapers from escort | Recaptured/surrendered prisoners | |
| 20 June 1988 to 31 December 1988 | 110 | 55 | 43 |
| 1 January 1989 to 31 December 1989 | 179 | 112 | 115 |
| 1 January 1990 to 31 December 1990 | 197 | 119 | 142 |
| 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1991 | 311 | 145 | 251 |
| 1 January 1992 to 11 July 1992 | 140 | 63 | 109 |