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<p>The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to each question could
be provided only at disproportionate cost as central data was not stored in a way
that it can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information, until 2009.
As a result, the tables below provide data for each year from 2009.</p><p>The Government
is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders.
By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff
will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they
present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation
supervision.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were
released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in
the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count
of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public
protection who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since
2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count
of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes
for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection
Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors
with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include
recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate
sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender
Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p>
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