PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Life Imprisonment (9 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the minimum tariff lengths were for people serving life sentences for second listed offences in prisons in England and Wales on 30 June 2024 who were sentenced (a) on or before 9 November 2000, (b) between 9 November 2000 and 4 April 2005 and (c) after 4 April 2005.

Asked by:
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)

Information that would enable us to answer this question robustly is not collated centrally and to obtain it would involve a manual interrogation of courts and prison records which would result in a disproportionate cost to the Department.

Answered by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)
18 October 2024