John Battle
Labour, Leeds West
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been released on end of custody licence from prison in (a) Leeds West constituency, (b) Leeds Metropolitan District and (c) Yorkshire and Humberside in each year since the scheme began.
Jack Straw
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The available information on numbers released by establishments is published monthly in Table 2 of the statistical bulletin End of Custody Licence releases and recalls' available from the Library of the House and the Ministry of Justice website at the following address:
www.justice.gov.uk/publications/endofcustodylicence.htm
The following table gives the available information on numbers of prisoners who were released under the end of custody licence (ECL) scheme from the date the scheme came into effect on
| Total releases( 1) | |
| Askham Grange | 11 |
| Everthorpe | 401 |
| Hull | 220 |
| Leeds | 313 |
| Lindholme | 399 |
| Moorland | 214 |
| Moorland Open | 166 |
| New Hall | 359 |
| Northallerton | 473 |
| Wealstun | 226 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside public prison establishments | 2,782 |
| Doncaster | 924 |
| Wolds | 42 |
| Contracted out prison establishments | 966 |
| Total | 3,748 |
| (1) 29 June 2007 to 31 May 2008 | |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
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