Prisoners' Release: Parole Board
(asked on 16th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving an extended determinate sentence have been released from prison; and of those, how many were released after their first Parole Board hearing in each of the last five years.
The table below sets out the number of releases of prisoners serving an extended determinate sentence (EDS) who are eligible for release via parole as part of their EDS in each of the last five years in which full data are available.
Year of Release | Total EDS First-Time Releases | Total EDS Releases at First Hearing |
2017 | 143 | 55 |
2018 | 243 | 116 |
2019 | 352 | 137 |
2020 | 506 | 226 |
2021 | 533 | 220 |
Data sources and quality:
1. Some prisoners were released without accessing the parole process because they were deported or, exceptionally, left prison following early release on compassionate grounds
2. Some parole hearings were not completed as a result of the prisoner receiving a new sentence or being transferred to secure hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983.
3. Total figures in the table do not match published total releases for EDS offenders, as some EDS offenders are not eligible for release via parole as part of their EDS.
4. The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing