Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving an extended determinate sentence are (1) in the first two-thirds of their custodial term and not yet eligible for parole, (2) in the final third of their custodial term having been refused release by the Parole Board, (3) in prison having been recalled in the final third of their custodial term, (4) in prison having been recalled during their extended licence period, (5) on licence in the final third of their custodial term, and (6) on licence in their extended licence period.

The answer to parts (1) and (2) are as follows:

Table 1: Number of prisoners serving an extended determinate sentence who are in the first two-thirds of their custodial term, as at end of September 2023, in England and Wales

Table 2: Number of prisoners serving an extended determinate sentence who are in the final third of their custodial term, as at end of September 2023, in England and Wales

Data sources and quality
The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Notes
There were also an additional 3 extended determinate sentence prisoners (as at 30 Sep 2023) without a recorded sentence length, and so they could not be included in the above tables.

Table 2 does not include any information on whether the individuals were rejected for release by the Parole Board, as this could only be included at disproportionate cost due to the need to link data held across different data systems.

Source: Prison NOMIS
PQ_HL-1621 (Ministry of Justice; Data and Analysis (Directorate))

Parts (3), (4), (5) and (6) could only be obtained at disproportionate cost due to the need to link data held across different data systems.