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<p>Figures for question 1 are in Table 1. These are the number of first-time releases
at the end of the original tariff following a mandatory life sentence.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table
1. The number of people convicted of murder who were released at the end of their
original tariff in each of the last five years:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Release Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>264</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>236</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>197</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Figures for question 2 are in Table 2. These are the number of recalls in the
last five years for offenders who at the time of recall had a conviction for murder.
The power to recall is a vital public protection measure and all individuals supervised
under licence in the community are liable to recall to prison if they fail to comply
with their licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2. The number of people
convicted of murder who were recalled to prison after they were released in each of
the last five years:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Licence
Revocation Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>219</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>For question three, which relates specifically to those offenders convicted
of domestic homicide, the data is not routinely available and the work to identify
such cases would exceed the appropriate cost limit under the request for the provision
of data.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Every effort is made to ensure that the figures
presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data
has been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by HM Prison &
Probation Service. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes
and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</li></ol><p>2.
Lifer Migration; These are prisoners who were sentenced prior to the introduction
of the Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD), there records were migrated from paper
files when the database was introduced in 2009.</p>
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