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Prisoners: Databases

Commons · Question 18606 · Tabled 14 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 22 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a single database to record (a) the number of offenders serving standard determinate sentences, (b) their offence category and (c) their release dates.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 22 Jul 2026

The Department holds information on offenders' offences, sentences and release dates within the Digital Prison Services (DPS) platform and the legacy offender case management system, NOMIS. This information is not held in a single database but these syste...