Parole System Root and Branch Review
(asked on 4th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions has a further serious offence been committed by a “top tier” offender, as described in their Root and Branch Review of the Parole System, published on 30 March, following a release decision in each of the past five years.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Table 1: Shows the number of ‘top tier’ offenders released by the Parole Board between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2020 and supervised by probation providers in England and Wales, who were subsequently convicted of an SFO.
| Year of Release by the Parole Board |
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Index Offence Group | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | Total |
1. Murder | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
2. Rape | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
3. Terrorism | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4. Allowing or causing the death of a child | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
Table notes:
1. These conviction figures are provisional and subject to change as outstanding cases are completed.
2. Figures only include convictions for serious further offences that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.
3. Figures include cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to any trial, where the judicial process concluded that they were responsible.
4. Data Sources and Quality. The data have come from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be amended as part of data cleansing or updates.
5. Figures are based on conviction data that was produced in September 2021.
6. Data is presented by year of release by the Parole Board and not by year of SFO conviction.