Parole Board
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The Annual Report
The Board has laid before Parliament its Annual Report and Accounts for 2022/23.
The Parole Boards overall priority is protecting the public, and it plays a vital role in doing so, by assessing whether prisoners are safe to be released. In 2022/23, we decided that 11,466 people (75% of the people we reviewed), needed to be detained in custody for the protection of the public, and 3,637 were released.
During the reporting year, the Parole Board continued to conduct the majority of its oral hearings remotely, based on an assessment of the case. In 2023/24, there is expected to be an increase in the number of hearings held face to face, as the pandemic is receding.
Key statistics at the end of the reporting year:
- 8,085 oral hearings were conducted (8,834 in 2021/22)
- 5,890 oral hearings were concluded (6,336 in 2021/22)
- 11,050 prisoners were refused release at paper and oral heari