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Written question asked by Sarah Champion (Labour) on Tuesday, 14 July 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 July 2026. It was answered by Sarah Sackman (Labour) on Wednesday, 22 July 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.


Prisoners: Databases

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a single database to record (a) the number of offenders serving standard determinate sentences, (b) their offence category and (c) their release dates.

Answer

The Department holds information on offenders' offences, sentences and release dates within the Digital Prison Services (DPS) platform and the legacy offender case management system, NOMIS. This information is not held in a single database but these systems combine information from many databases to address operational, reporting and analytical requirements


The current authoritative system of record, with synchronised data, remains the National Offender Management Information System (NOMIS).


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
18606
Session
2026-27
Subjects
Databases Prisoners
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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