§ Bob SpinkTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have been released from prison on the Home Detention Curfew scheme since the introduction of presumptive release. [135014]
§ Paul GogginsThe total number of home detention curfew (HOC) releases from 1 May 2002, when the presumptive scheme was introduced, to 30 April 2003 is recorded as 21,928, of which 11,259 were from sentences of under a year.