Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Parole Board report on the proportion of prisoners released, broken down by offence and ethnicity.

Statistics on prisoner releases are published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly National Statistics publication. This publication provides information about the demographics and characteristics of the prison population, as well as equivalent data for prisoner admissions and releases.

The publication does not currently include a breakdown of prisoner releases by offence and ethnicity; however, the content of the publication is continually under review to ensure that it continues to best meet internal and external needs.

As part of their annual report and accounts for 2020/21, published in October last year, the Parole Board provided data oral hearing outcomes by each ethnicity and gender. This can be found via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-parole-board-for-england-wales-annual-report-and-accounts-202021.