PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prisoners (18 November 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are serving sentences beyond the limit of the tariff for the crimes for which they were sentenced.
Asked by:
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)
Answer
Prisoners serving indeterminate sentences have a minimum term, or tariff, imposed by the court for the purposes of punishment and deterrence. Once this has been served release is determined by the Parole Board on the basis of risk.
The latest figures for the indeterminate sentence prison population by tariff length and tariff expiry date can be found in table 1.9 of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletin published on 29 0ctober 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2015
Answered by:
Andrew Selous (Conservative)
23 November 2015
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