§ Mr. StanbrookTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will propose immediately an amendment to the existing law whereby persons convicted of crimes of violence who are released from imprisonment after serving a full sentence with remission are made subject to supervision as recommended in the Carlisle report.
§ Mr. John Patten[holding answer 10 July 1989]: We are actively considering the far-reaching changes in the arrangements for parole and remission in England and Wales recommended by the Carlisle committee, The committee's proposals include supervising on their release all prisoners with sentences of more than a year.
We are sympathetic to this part of the proposals which accord with Government policies, and, as part of our work on the Carlisle committee's report, we are thoroughly reviewing the way in which prisoners released on licence would be supervised. High and consistent standards of supervision would be essential but supervision cannot give an absolute guarantee that an offender will be prevented from committing further crime.