Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the rate of (1) deferral, and (2) adjournments, of cases by the Parole Board broken down by local region in each year since 2017.
The Parole Board has confirmed the breakdown of Deferral and Adjournment rates for oral hearings since 2017 in the table below. The Parole Board will publish data for 2021/22 in their 2021/22 Annual Report. The Parole Board reports on national rates and does not produce this data by regions.
| Conducted Hearings | Completed Oral Hearings | Deferred & Adjourned Hearings | Deferred Split | Adjourned Split |
2017-18 | 8137 | 5638 | 2499 | 744 | 1755 |
2018-19 | 7903 | 5380 | 2523 | 488 | 2035 |
2019-20 | 8264 | 5294 | 2970 | 271 | 2699 |
2020-21 | 9202 | 6421 |
| 167 | 2614 |
*Percentage of conducted oral hearings