Question follow-through · 8355
Life Imprisonment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving life sentences for second listed offences in prisons in England and Wales on 30 June 2024 were sentenced (a) on or before 9 November 2000, (b) between 9 November 2000 and 4 April 2005 and
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving life sentences for second listed offences in prisons in England and Wales on 30 June 2024 were sentenced (a) on or before 9 November 2000, (b) between 9 November 2000 and 4 April 2005 and
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
Information that would enable us to answer this question robustly is not collated centrally and to obtain it would involve a manual interrogation of courts and prison records which would result in a disproportionate cost to the Department.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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