§ Mr. Wrigglesworthasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish statistics on the operation in the first year of the new parole policy;
(2) how many prisoners serving sentences of five years or more for offences of violence or drug trafficking have been released since the implementation of the new parole policy; and what have been the exceptional circumstances or compelling reasons in each case.
§ Mr. MellorWe expect shortly to be able to publish an assessment of the working of the new policy in January to June this year compared with the same period last year.
§ Mr. Wrigglesworthasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many life sentence prisoners in the new 20-year categories created by the change in parole policy have been released since its inception; and what were the exceptional circumstances or compelling reasons in these cases.
§ Mr. MellorTwo. One had been in custody 26 years and four months; the other 23 years and one month.