Question follow-through · 5139
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any prisoners convicted of violent offences are scheduled for early release.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 7 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse · 4 Oct 2024
- Prisoners' Release: Restraining Orders · 4 Oct 2024
- Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse · 4 Oct 2024
- Prisoners' Release: National Security · 7 Jan 2025
- Prison Officers: Vacancies · 12 Feb 2025
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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 any prisoners convicted of violent offences are scheduled for early release.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Oct 2024
Answer published
Certain offences have been excluded from this change. This includes serious violent offences with a sentence of four years or more; specified offences linked to domestic abuse irrespective of sentence length (including stalking, coercive or controlling be...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to prevent women being put in danger following the release of perpetrators of domestic violence.
Prisoners' Release: Restraining Orders
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason each prisoner who was released under the revised terms of the early release scheme and had previously breached a restraining order was released.
Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse and violence who are affected by the early release of some prisoners.
Prisoners' Release: National Security
7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Prison pathfinder meetings are provided with intelligence risk assessments on the release of prisoners that could pose a threat to national security.
Prison Officers: Vacancies
12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to reduce prison officer vacancies in (a) public prisons and (b) prisons run by contractors.
Private Rented Housing: Tribunals
26 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration is given to home Energy Performance Certificates by the first-tier tribunal in determining a market rent assessment.
Cannabis: Convictions
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for carrying cannabis in England and Wales in the last 12 months.