Question follow-through · 27982
Prisoners' Release: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison leavers in 2025 had an origin address in Wales, by prison establishment of release.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison leavers in 2025 had an origin address in Wales, by prison establishment of release.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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17 Sept 2026
Answer published
Centrally collated prison releases data only allows for "average proportion of sentence" to be readily estimated for those released from determinate sentences and this calculation may also include time spent in the community on bail. Therefore, ...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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