Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 17 July 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2015 to Question 3642, how many people were placed on life licence for murder in each year since 2007.
The number of offenders serving a mandatory life sentence for murder who have been released on life licence by the independent Parole Board in each year since 2007 are published in the Offender Management Statistics Annual Releases Tables. Table A3.3 at the link below shows the number released from mandatory life sentences from 2002 to 2014.
Any offender released from a mandatory life sentence for murder will be subject to a licence for the rest of his or her life. The life licence may be revoked and the offender returned to prison, should it be deemed appropriate, in response to an increase in risk posed to the public.
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