Prison Sentences
(asked on 5th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of licences revoked under Section 8 of the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 in each year since1998.
This question was answered on 10th February 2020
Section 8 of the NI (Sentences) Act 1998 relates to the revocation of a declaration by the Sentence Review Commissioners that a prisoner is eligible for release. To date, two declarations have been revoked under this provision since 1998.