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Written question asked by Lord Stunell (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 18 November 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 November 2009. It was answered by Maria Eagle (Labour) on Thursday, 26 November 2009 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prison Sentences

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence for public protection were over tariff (a) having had a parole hearing and (b) not yet having had a parole hearing on the most recent date for which figures are available;
Answer

We are in the process of undertaking an audit of data on outstanding parole reviews for prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP). I will write to the hon. Member, once the audit is complete and will place a copy of the reply in the Library.The number of prisoners serving IPP sentences, whose parole applications were referred to the Parole Board, and which were (a) resolved, (b) deferred or adjourned at the hearing and (c) deferred or cancelled at the pre-hearing stage in each month since the inception of IPP sentences are shown in the tables below. The information has been collated from data held by the Parole Board. It is broken down by month and financial year categorised as: resolved by oral hearing; resolved by paper decision; deferred or adjourned at hearing; and cancelled or deferred before the hearing was convened. (The monthly split for cases deferred or adjourned at the hearing is not available for the financial year 2006-07.)

2006-07
Resolved by oral hearing Resolved by paper decision Deferred or adjourned at hearing Cancelled or deferred pre-hearing
April 2006 3 0 n/a 0
May 2006 0 0 n/a 2
June 2006 1 0 n/a 1
July 2006 1 0 n/a 2
August 2006 2 0 n/a 0
September 2006 3 0 n/a 4
October 2006 2 0 n/a 5
November 2006 5 0 n/a 3
December 2006 7 0 n/a 1
January 2007 5 0 n/a 4
February 2007 10 0 n/a 5
March 2007 11 0 n/a 6
Financial year total 50 0 ¹24 33
¹ This is the annual total as monthly figures are not available for 2006-07
2007-08
Resolved by oral hearing Resolved by paper decision Deferred or adjourned at hearing Cancelled or deferred pre-hearing
April 2007 12 0 1 6
May 2007 11 0 2 3
June 2007 22 0 3 6
July 2007 30 0 3 16
August 2007 15 0 0 6
September 2007 33 0 8 11
October 2007 13 0 4 0
November 2007 32 8 7 11
December 2007 17 0 6 2
January 2008 8 4 3 3
February 2008 6 3 4 6
March 2008 10 10 3 2
Financial year total 209 25 44 72
2008-09
Resolved, by oral hearing Resolved by paper decision Deferred or adjourned at hearing Cancelled or deferred pre hearing
April 2008 18 3 5 5
May 2008 21 9 5 3
June 2008 30 5 4 11
July 2008 25 3 10 13
August 2008 32 0 9 5
September 2008 40 2 7 11
October 2008 47 ¹0 8 8
November 2008 45 9 13 8
December 2008 49 13 14 19
January 2009 31 7 14 18
February 2009 54 33 16 20
March 2009 41 35 18 10
Financial year total 433 119 123 131
¹ Figures for resolved by paper decision are not available for October 2008
2009-10
Resolved by oral hearing Resolved by paper decision Deferred or adjourned at hearing Cancelled or deferred pre-hearing
April 2009 46 28 4 14
May 2009 46 46 6 12
June 2009 84 35 21 23
July 2009 84 25 21 24
August 2009 47 31 21 22
September 2009 83 38 10 19
Financial year total 390 203 83 114

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
501 c337-40W; 300818
Session
2009-10
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2010-0156
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Prison sentences
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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