questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prisoners serving an imprisonment for public protection and (b) other prisoners have been released on compassionate grounds in each year since 2005.
answerText: We have taken significant action through the Victim’s and Prisoner Bill to curtail IPP licence periods to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these changes, the actions this Government is taking are working: the numb...
heading: Prisoners' Release