Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2015 to Question 4022, how many of the cases in the negative outcomes category related to (a) transfer to an open prison and (b) release from prison.

During the period in question, all post-tariff indeterminate sentence prisoners who were in closed conditions were entitled to be considered for both transfer to open conditions and release. Those in open conditions were considered for release or continued suitability for open.

All prisoners in the negative outcomes category as set out in Question 4022 received a negative decision regards to release.

In order to know how many received a negative decision in respect of transfer to open conditions, we would need to be able to identify, retrospectively, whether those prisoners were located in either open or closed prisons. Retrospective information on the location of a prisoner at the time of a parole review is not held centrally. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of cases and this would incur disproportionate costs.