Written question asked by Lord Garnier (Conservative) on Wednesday, 17 December 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 January 2026. It was answered by Lord Timpson (Labour) on Monday, 5 January 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
Prison Sentences
- Question
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To ask His Majesty's Government what is the (1) mean and (2) median number of months served beyond tariff for individuals who have not yet been released and are serving (1) a life sentence, (2) a mandatory life sentence, (3) a discretionary life sentence, and (4) an automatic life sentence.
- Answer
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The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) on the prison population.
The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to these questions could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central records are not kept in a way that they can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- HL13101
- Session
- 2024-26
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Subjects
- Prison sentences
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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- 2026-01-05 14:21:25 +0000
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