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	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will arrange for replies to be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North to his letters to (a) the Chief Operating Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service of 7 April and 7 May; and if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to that hon. Member to his letter to the Chief Executive, Capita-PIP ref PIP100 34851/101 of 7 April 2014 on behalf of a constituent.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
	uin	198876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>A reply to all of the issues that you raised in both of your letters will be sent to you by one of our Directors by 13 June 2014.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/06/2014 16:41:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

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	registered interest
	date	21/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people sentenced to life for murder in each year since 2004 were released from prison at the time of the minimum period imposed by the courts.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
	uin	206714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>A life sentence is mandatory on conviction for murder. Under a life sentence, the court determines the minimum period to be served in prison for the purposes of punishment and deterrence. Once that period has been served it is for the Parole Board to determine if and when the offender may be released from prison on life licence and subject to recall for the rest of their life. Public protection is the priority and the Board will take into account a range of factors when assessing whether an offender’s risk is reduced sufficiently for him or her to be released.</p><p> </p><p>In order to provide data relating to released life sentenced offenders in each year since 2004 would involve manually examining prisoner records.</p><p>Reliable centrally held electronic information on life sentenced prisoners released from custody is only available from 2011 onwards. Prior to this date the required individual record information was only kept in paper files for offender management purposes. It would therefore be at a disproportionate cost to search through these files to identify those prisoners sentenced for murder who were released after serving a minimum period of imprisonment imposed by the courts prior to 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available information on the number of released life sentenced offenders is publicly available under “Offender Management” at the following website address:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 04/09/2014 10:18:41 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick