To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cases the Parole Board considered in each of the last 10 years; how many and what proportion of offenders were granted oral hearings in each of those years; and how many of those offenders were granted parole in each year. (206499)

The information requested is set out in the following table. It is based on data published by the Parole Board in its annual reports. It excludes the Parole Board’s consideration of recalled prisoners.

Almost all determinate sentence prisoners have their parole applications considered on the papers and therefore the oral hearings listed in the table are predominantly in respect of indeterminate and extended sentence prisoners.