Prisoners
(asked on 31st March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currently in prison serving a determinate sentence with a parole eligibility date, as defined in Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service Security Categorisation Policy Framework, reissued on 17 August 2021, by length of time between their sentence start date and conditional release date.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The answer is given in Table 1.
Table 1: Determinate sentenced prisoners(1) with a Parole Eligibility Date (PED), by time between First Movement Date(2) and Date of Release; as at 31 December 2021, England & Wales
| Total |
Determinate sentenced prisoners with a Parole Eligibility Date | 8,511 |
less than a year | * |
Between 1 and 2 years | * |
Between 2 and 4 years | 159 |
Between 4 and 5 years | 402 |
Between 5 and 7 years | 1,030 |
Between 7 and 10 years | 1,901 |
Between 10 and 14 years | 2,426 |
14 years and over | 2,586 |
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Data sources and quality
The figures in this table 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
(1) Recalled prisoners have not been included in these figures
(2) First Movement Date has been used, as it would reflect any time on remand deducted from total sentence length
Disclosure control
An asterisk (*) has been used to suppress values of one and two. This is to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further disclosure control may be completed where this alone is not sufficient