Question follow-through · 38326
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners (a) have served their original sentence and (b) maintain their innocence.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 6 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
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners (a) have served their original sentence and (b) maintain their innocence.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
Data regarding how many and what proportions of prisoners have served their original sentence and maintain their innocence is not collated by the Ministry of Justice.Innocence is a matter for the courts, so HM Prison and Probation Service and the Parole B...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Probate: Standards
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Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs
17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the civil justice system for litigants in person.