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Prisoners Release

Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people who had been in prison for (a) more than 10 years, (b) between five and 10 years, (c) between two and five years and (d) between one and two years were released in each of the last 10 years. [179145]

Mr. Hanson: The following table gives the available information on the numbers of persons discharged, by original sentence length band, for adult (aged 21 and over) and young offender (aged 18 to 20) prisoners released between 1997 and 2006 from all prison establishments in England and Wales. These figures were taken from tables 3.13 and 4.11 in the annual prison statistics England and Wales for data relating to 1997 to 2002 and from table 10.1 and 10.2 in the annual Offender Management Caseload Statistics for data relating to 2003 to 2006. The published tables also indicate the average time served within these bands. Copies of these publications can be found in the House of Commons Library and at the websites:

http://www.homeoffice. gov.uk/rds/omcs.html

and

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonandprobation.htm

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

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Number of persons discharged from prisons( 1) , by length of determinate sentence, on completion of sentence or on licence 1997 to 2006: England and Wales
Number
Sentence length	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Adult males and females
All lengths of sentence less than indeterminate	58,000	65,300	71,300	68,430	65,805	69,899	69,611	71,000	70,500	65,900
Up to and including 3 months	17,650	20,050	21,800	18,700	18,247	18,224	17,255	18,100	17,800	16,300
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months	15,850	17,250	19,150	18,110	17,769	19,239	19,532	19,900	18,900	17,900
Over 6 months less than 12 months	5,100	5,700	5,950	6,150	5,696	6,075	5,917	6,200	6,100	6,200
12 months	3,350	3,550	3,600	3,190	2,984	3,144	2,954	3,000	3,000	2,800
Over 12 months up to and including 18 months	4,500	5,000	4,950	5,220	4,704	5,127	5,062	4,800	4,900	4,600
Over 18 months up to and including 3 years	7,450	8,250	9,050	9,150	8,530	9,582	9,895	9,400	9,500	8,900
Over 3 years less than 4 years	650	1,050	1,450	1,940	1,907	2,298	2,708	2,700	2,900	2,700
4 years	1,000	1,350	1,550	1,600	1,375	1,477	1,547	1,600	1,700	1,400
Over 4 years up to and including 5 years	950	1,300	1,600	1,830	1,859	1,938	1,948	2,300	2,400	2,200
Over 5 years up to and including 10 years	1,350	1,600	1,950	2,300	2,435	2,518	2,471	2,600	2,800	2,700
Over 10 years less than indeterminate	180	250	250	240	299	277	322	400	400	300
Young offenders males and females
All lengths of sentence less than indeterminate	15,450	18,130	20,130	18,112	15,642	16,914	15,459	14,700	14,500	12,500
Up to and including 3 months	3,510	4,980	5,930	4,196	3,513	3,103	2,796	2,700	2,800	2,800
Over 3 months up to and including 6 months	4,220	5,100	5,730	5,935	5,256	5,645	5,051	5,100	5,000	4,700
Over 6 months less than 12 months	2,060	2,030	2,070	2,120	1,849	2,324	1,929	1,900	1,900	1,900
12 months	1,140	1,280	1,230	1,121	1,138	1,400	1,268	1,200	1,200	700
Over 12 months up to and including 18 months	1,700	1,780	1,830	1,623	1,367	1,716	1,590	1,400	1,300	700
Over 18 months less than life	2,790	2,950	3,340	3,117	2,519	2,726	2,825	2,400	2,400	1,500
(1) Excludes discharges following recall after release on licence, non-criminals, persons committed to custody for non-payment of a fine and persons reclassified as adult prisoners. Note: Additions may not add to totals because they have been rounded separately.

Treasury

Academies

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will make a statement on the progress of the review of academy schools by the Number 10 Delivery Unit; [178552]

(2) what the names are of all those who have worked for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit in the last 12 months; [179064]

(3) whether a copy of the review of academy schools by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit will be made publicly available; [179065]

(4) when the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit review of academy schools will report; [179066]

(5) how many people are working on the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit review of academy schools; [179067]

(6) what the timescale is for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit review of academy schools. [179068]

Andy Burnham: I refer the hon. Member to the answer the Minister of State for Children, Schools and Families gave to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 624W and also to the remarks made on the Floor of the House by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on 13 November 2007 , Official Report, columns 561-62. PMDU reviews are confidential advice to Ministers; we do not disclose the recommendations or publish the report.

The review of the academies programme is being jointly led by a number of officials in the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit in partnership with Treasury and DCSF officials in the Academies and Capitals Group of the Department. The serving Director of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit is Richard Page-Jones and Ray Shostak is the Head of the Unit.

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