Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2016 to Question 48562, on prisoners' release, how many times representations have been made by the victim's family in respect of each of the people convicted of murder; and how many times the decision on release changed as a result of those representations.

Decisions about temporary release are taken after careful consideration of all of the relevant information available, including but not restricted to information about the impact upon the victim or their family, and it is not possible to conclude definitively that any one piece of information determined the outcome. Nor is it possible, except at disproportionate cost, to determine the number of occasions where representations have been made by the families of the victims in the cases referred to in Question 48562.