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Parole Board

Commons · Question 87097 · Tabled 31 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 10 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Jake Richards, 10 Nov 2025

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...