Question follow-through · 85326

Prisoners' Transfers: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making people convicted of murder ineligible for transfer to open prisons.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 27 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 29 Oct 2025
Answer: 4 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making people convicted of murder ineligible for transfer to open prisons.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
Public protection is the Government’s foremost priority when considering any progression within the custodial estate.There are no current plans to restrict those convicted of murder from being held in open prison conditions, as long as it safe to do so.A ...

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