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Regarding Amendment 128, on extended determinate sentence prisoners, the majority of people serving an EDS currently become eligible for parole after serving two-thirds of their custodial term, and every two years thereafter, with eventual automatic release at the end of the custodial term, on extended licence, if they are unsuccessful in gaining parole earlier. This proposed new clause would create a power for the Secretary of State to refer to the Parole Board a prisoner serving an extended determinate sentence at the earlier halfway point of the sentence instead of the two-thirds point,