Member

It is both a probing and a permissive amendment, and a natural progression from and consolidation of the reforms undertaken by Ministers in the previous Government over the past seven years, arising from the public disquiet over the proposed release of serial rapist John Worboys in 2018. That resulted in a review of the parole system and a public consultation, published in 2022, as well as a finding in the High Court in March 2018 that the Parole Board’s Rule 25—a blanket ban on transparency and details of the board’s deliberations—was unlawful.