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Written question asked by Sadiq Khan (Labour) on Thursday, 3 July 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 July 2014. It was answered by Andrew Selous (Conservative) on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Parole

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases remained unprocessed by the Parole Board on 1 (a) January, (b) April, (c) July and (d) October in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014.

Answer

The volume of Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners (ISP) cases to be reviewed on the dates requested is set out in the table below save that the figure for 1 July 2014 is not yet available:

1 Jan

1 Apr

1 Jul

1 Oct

2009

1832

1949

2148

2010

1596

1757

2079

2070

2011

1702

1420

1486

1440

2012

1396

1601

1570

1627

2013

1447

1323

1449

1299

2014

1756

2022

The Parole Board is committed to working in an effective and efficient manner in order to reduce the backlog of outstanding cases. The Board is developing a new operating model in order to respond to the requirement to hold an increased number of oral hearings following the Supreme Court judgment in Osborn, Booth and Reilly. To support this work, we have increased the Parole Board’s resource allocation from £10.85m in 2013/14 to £13.8m in 2014/15.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
203975
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Parole
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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