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Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the offences committed by prisoners released under the early release scheme.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
28 Oct 2024
Answer
31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the offences committed by prisoners released under the early release scheme.

  2. 28 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    SDS40 applies to standard determinate sentences, but certain offences have been excluded from the SDS change. the following offences are excluded: Sex offences irrespective of sentence length; serious violent offences with a sentence of four years or more...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Magistrates: Boston

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many justices of the peace served at Boston Magistrates court in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Legal Systems: Islam

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of sharia councils operating in England and Wales.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shoplifting: Reoffenders

6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people convicted for shoplifting offences reoffended within (a) 12 months and (b) two years in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Justice: Artificial Intelligence

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have used AI in the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Justices' Clerks: Boston

22 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court clerks worked at Boston Magistrates' Court in each year since 2014 for which data is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Reoffenders: Lincolnshire

24 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for he policies of trends in the levels of reoffending rates in Lincolnshire in the past five years; and what steps her Department is taking to help redu