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<p> </p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer these questions without
carrying out a manual search through all relevant individual offender files, at disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p><p>Conditions such as an exclusion zone may be applied to an offender's
licence where it is necessary to manage the risk that the individual offender poses
following release into the community - and where it is proportionate to that risk.
Where qualifying victims have exercised their statutory right to make representations
about the offender's licence conditions, the exclusion zone set will take into account
those representations. In each case, the supervising officer proposes conditions as
appropriate and requests these from the appropriate authority, which applies it to
the licence on behalf of the Secretary of State. In the case of determinate sentence
prisoners, the authority is the prison governor; in the case of indeterminate sentence
prisoners, or others whose release is on the direction of the Parole Board, the authority
is the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>These conditions must be kept under review, and
are intended to be flexible to the possible resettlement needs of an offender in the
community and any new risks that arise.</p><p> </p><p>An exclusion zone will rarely
be absolute, as it is recognised that there may be exceptional reasons why the offender
needs to enter the exclusion zone. Thus, where an exclusion zone is included in the
offender's licence, it will usually be open to the supervising officer to grant the
offender permission to enter the exclusion zone, for a temporary period and for a
specific purpose.</p><p> </p><p>As this is a purely localised decision, there is no
national record of the number of occasions such permission has been given. It is,
therefore, not possible to answer the questions regarding how many times an offender
has been granted permission to enter the exclusion zone applied to his licence.</p><p>
</p><p>Data from the last 10 years is not available in the required electronic format
to answer the question relating to numbers of offenders with exclusion zones included
in their licence. To provide such information would again require a manual interrogation
of offenders' records and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p>
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