Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many indeterminate sentence prisoners have been considered and (a) approved and (b) rejected for release on temporary licence; and how many of these had received approval from him for transfer to open conditions.

Data on temporary release applications and the outcomes of such applications is not collected centrally and could not be provided except at disproportionate cost. Data on releases on temporary licence are published at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-december-2013-and-annual

and

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statistical-notice-releases-on-temporary-licence-2012