Question follow-through · 18606
Prisoners: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a single database to record (a) the number of offenders serving standard determinate sentences, (b) their offence category and (c) their release dates.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a single database to record (a) the number of offenders serving standard determinate sentences, (b) their offence category and (c) their release dates.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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22 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Department holds information on offenders' offences, sentences and release dates within the Digital Prison Services (DPS) platform and the legacy offender case management system, NOMIS. This information is not held in a single database but these syste...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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