Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the (1) mean, and (2) median, number of months that prisoners serving an extended determinate sentence spent in prison beyond their parole eligibility date, in each of the last five years.
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Centrally collated prisons releases data held by the department do not include Parole Eligibility Dates (PED), as such, we are not able to calculate the time post-PED at point of release. The question’s reference to ‘months spent’ relates to those who have since been released, so bringing all the required data together would exceed costs.