United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 127609
Life Imprisonment: Open Prisons
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15 April 2026
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24 April 2026 · Answer
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24 April 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with at least one life sentence have been transferred to open prison conditions in each year since 2020, broken down by offence.
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15 April 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with at least one life sentence have been transferred to open prison conditions in each year since 2020, broken down by offence.
Source: Commons
24 April 2026
Answer
To answer the question would incur disproportionate cost as it would require a search of individual prisoner records. Centrally-collated data on prisoner transfers cover transfers between a predominant function closed prison and a predominant function ope...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-04-15/127609
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1900176
- uk · wq-1900176 · source updated 24 April 2026