Written questions by Anderson.

What plans her Department has to inform victims of the early release of prisoners.

Victims and survivors who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender who perpetrated crime(s) against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. In this way, the victims and survivors who have opted into the Schemes are given the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions which they would like to be in place on an offender’s release, such as an exclusion zone

How many foreign-born criminals (a) are in prison and (b) were released under the revised terms of the early release scheme since 10 September 2024 in (i) Ashfield constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire.

Information on the number of Foreign Nationals in prisons can be found in Table 1_Q_11 here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods. Data on SDS40 releases at the local level forms a subset of data intended for future publication. Therefore, data on foreign nationals released under SDS40 in the Ashfield Constituency and Nottinghamshire is not available. The number of prison places projected to be saved nationally by SDS40 releases are set out in the Impact Assessment (between 4,600 and 5,900 prison places for the male estate).