Question follow-through · 31897
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for ending the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging · 24 Feb 2025
- Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging · 25 Feb 2025
- Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging · 25 Feb 2025
- Prisoners: Repatriation · 25 Feb 2025
- HMP Long Lartin: Domestic Visits · 5 Mar 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her planned timetable is for ending the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
This Government has committed to reviewing the scheme after 18 months of implementation.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, how many SDS40 releases did not have a prison tag in (a) Tranche one and (b) Tranche two.
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20393 on Prisoners’ Release: Electronic Tagging, what the longest period of time was that a person released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) r
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any people released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme have reported faults with their tags since September 2024.
Prisoners: Repatriation
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings (a) she and (b) her Ministers have had with the (i) Albanian, (ii) Polish, (iii) Romanian, (iv) Irish and (v) Jamaican Government to discuss increasing the number of foreign national offenders retur
HMP Long Lartin: Domestic Visits
5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has visited HMP Long Lartin since 4 July 2024.
Judiciary
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to set a target date to achieve a representative (a) judiciary and (b) magistracy.
Sentencing
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Sentencing Council's guidance entitled Imposition of community and custodial sentences - Effective from 1 April 2025, whether her Department has made an (a) estimate of the (i) additional nu
Prison Accommodation: Facilities
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to suspend the use of kitchen facilities in Separation Centres within prisons.
Prison Accommodation
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many a) Separation Centres and b) segregation wings in the prison estate are currently in use; and what is their total available capacity.
Prisoners: Radicalism
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact for her policies of the judgement in R (De Silva) v Secretary of State for Justice [2025] EWHC 128 (Admin) on the ability of prison governors to isolate (a
Prisoners: Radicalism
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has recently assessed the (a) scale and (b) nature of the threat from (i) Islamist and (ii) far-right prisoners radicalising other inmates.
Prisons: Radicalism
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has issued to prison governors a consolidated list of extremist material banned in prisons.