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Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 227648, tabled on 16 March 2015

Question

Sadiq Khan
Labour
Tooting
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in (a) HMP Belmarsh, (b) HMP Feltham, (c) HMP Isis, (d) HMP Pentonville, (e) HMP Thameside, (f) HMP Wandsworth and (g) HMP Wormwood Scrubs on 1 March 2015 had previously (i) never been in prison, (ii) been in prison once before, (iii) been in prison between 2 and 5 times, (iv) been in prison between 6 and 10 times and (v) been in prison more than 10 times before.

Answer

Andrew Selous
Conservative
South West Bedfordshire
Commons

Answered on

19 March 2015

In order to provide custodial histories relating to the number of times offenders have been to prison for the specific prison establishments would involve matching a total of 7,065 individual records to the police national computer (PNC) which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

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Ministry of Justice
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