Speeches

Lord Bradley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Bradley on 2015-10-29.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people serving (1) life sentences, and (2) imprisonment for public protection sentences, were authorised by the Parole Board for transfer to open prison conditions in each month since January 2013.

Lord Faulks

The table below gives a breakdown of the number of indeterminate sentence prisoners who were recommended by the Parole Board for transfer to open conditions.

The data covers the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 October 2015, broken down by month, and distinguish between those serving a life sentence and those serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection.

These figures have been drawn from a live administrative IT system which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Jan

Feb

Mar

April

May

June

July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Totals

2013

Open Recommendations made by PB:

IPP

57

62

66

73

69

78

61

68

67

60

64

54

779

Lifer

59

48

40

48

51

51

46

43

37

47

41

27

538

Approved for Transfer:

IPP

52

58

59

60

70

65

77

76

63

74

47

80

781

Lifer

38

63

44

40

53

38

58

48

38

50

33

47

550

2014

Open Recommendations made by PB:

IPP

62

68

41

74

54

49

69

48

35

44

50

48

642

Lifer

44

31

31

28

36

33

40

28

17

24

38

24

374

Approved for Transfer:

IPP

65

46

74

45

38

26

54

43

41

64

48

46

590

Lifer

30

34

39

21

15

20

23

23

28

31

20

29

313

2015

Open Recommendations made by PB:

IPP

61

47

49

48

46

56

38

32

33

32

N/A

N/A

442

Lifer

39

28

28

25

25

38

22

23

24

33

N/A

N/A

285

Approved for Transfer:

IPP

57

41

54

40

42

63

55

34

35

35

N/A

N/A

456

Lifer

31

16

36

26

16

33

35

24

22

22

N/A

N/A

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