Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to inform victims of the early release of prisoners.

Victims and survivors who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender who perpetrated crime(s) against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. In this way, the victims and survivors who have opted into the Schemes are given the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions which they would like to be in place on an offender’s release, such as an exclusion zone