Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 87097

Parole Board

Tabled: 31 October 2025

Answered: 10 November 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all relevant (a) intelligence and (b) behavioural evidence is available to the Parole Board it makes release decisions.

Answer

Jake Richards

Qualified prison and probation officers, together with qualified psychologists, assess the relevance of all available evidence about a prisoner’s risk in the reports which they are required to submit to the Parole Board, when the Board is considering whet...

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