Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of homicides were committed by people on (a) parole and (b) a life licence in England and Wales in each of the last three years.

The link below sets out the number of offenders convicted of murder, who at the time they committed the offence were being supervised on: a) an IPP licence; and b) life licence, in England and Wales between 2014/15 to 2019/20.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics

Steps:

1. Go to the landing page https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics

2. Click on the latest October publication of the Proven Reoffending Statistics

3. The requested information is in Table 3 of the Serious Further Offence Tables

The information provided by financial years will be updated at 9:30 am on 28 October 2021.

We have interpreted ‘parole’ to mean offenders subject to an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) and released by the Parole Board.

We cannot provide the proportion of all murders in a given year which are committed by offenders subject to probation supervision due to differences in the way the respective data sets are produced. Published Homicide Index data are based on the year when the offence was recorded as a crime, not when the offence took place or when the case was heard in court.