Question follow-through · 18425
Prisoners' Release: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding violent offenders who have breached lifetime restraining orders while in custody from the early release scheme.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding violent offenders who have breached lifetime restraining orders while in custody from the early release scheme.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
Certain offences have been excluded from SDS40. 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 behaviou...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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