Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been granted compassionate release from prison on the grounds of ill-health in each of the last five years.

The number of prisoners granted early release on compassionate grounds for reasons of ill-health in each of the last five calendar years are:

These figures have been drawn from internal records and the Public Protection Unit Database in the National Offender Management Service. As with any large scale recording systems, they are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.