Question follow-through · 4964
Prisoners' Release: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in pris
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Prisoners' Release: Lincolnshire · 11 Sept 2024
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- Prisoners' Release · 23 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in pris
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that vict...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisoners' Release: Lincolnshire
11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people will be released from prisons in Lincolnshire under the early release scheme.
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have been electronically tagged.
Prisons: Drugs
22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many confiscations of Class A drugs took place in prisons in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last three years.
Prisons: Mobile Phones
22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many confiscations of mobile phones took place in prisons in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last three years.
Prisoners' Release
23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the offences committed by prisoners released under the early release scheme.
Open Prisons: Prisoner Escapes
23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have escaped from Category D prisons in the last 10 years.
Prisoners' Release: Lincolnshire
25 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released under the early release scheme on (a) 10 September 2024 and (b) 22 October 2024 are registered as residing in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire.
Courts: Lincolnshire
28 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of court cases in Lincolnshire.
Sexual Offences: Sentencing
28 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of those convicted for sexual offences were not given prison sentences in the last five years.
Prison Officers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have (a) been recruited and (b) left their roles since 2014.
Offenders: Deportation
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to immediately deport foreign nationals convicted of criminal offences resulting in custodial sentences.
Probation Service: East Midlands
11 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Probation Service in the East Midlands.