Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parole board releases for offenders convicted of (a) rape, (b) murder and (c) terror-related offences did the Secretary of State for Justice ask the parole board to reconsider in each year since 2016.

The reconsideration mechanism was introduced within updated Parole Board Rules in July 2019.

Since the introduction of the reconsideration mechanism, the Secretary of State has requested reconsideration by the Parole Board in a total of 39 cases.

Within that total, 8 applications were for offences of rape, 6 applications were for offences of murder and 7 applications were for terror-related offences.

Note: The above are instances of reconsideration applications not number of offenders covered by the applications.