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The Parole Board for England and Wales Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 The Parole Board for England and Wales Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 HC 401 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11 July 2012 ISBN: 9780102979572 CORRECTIONS Correction made to page 29, table “Summary of recommendations made for determinate recall cases considered under the CJIA Act 2008” 2011/12 Make no recommendation – 349 becomes 13,155 Send to oral hearing – 13,155 becomes 349 Correction made to page 32, table “DCR cases considered and released on parole by ethnic group 2011/12” Black or Black British Refused – 72% becomes 82% Correction made to page 35, table “Summary of on/post tariff and recall mandatory, discretionary and automatic life sentence prisoners, Her Majesty’s pleasure detainees considered 2005/06 – 2011/12” 2011/12 Release not directed – 275 becomes 1,326 Percentage of cases where release not directed – 14% becomes 68% January 2013 THE PAROLE BOARD Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 1 the Parole Board for England and Wales Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 3 the Parole Board for England and Wales Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 Report Presented to Parliament pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Accounts Presented to Parliament pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11 July 2012 HC 401 London: The Stationery Office £21.25 © Parole Board (2012) The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental and agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context The material must be acknowledged as Parole Board copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected] This publication is also for download at www.official-documents.gov.uk and from our website at www.justice.gov.uk ISBN: 9780102979572 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID 2498362 07/12 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 1 The Right Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP Justice Secretary Ministry of Justice 102 Petty France London, SW1H 9AJ 9 July 2012 Dear Justice Secretary I have pleasure in presenting to you the Parole Board’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2011/12. The report records the work carried out by the Board last year to achieve our aim of making risk assessments that are rigorous, fair and timely while protecting the public and contributing to the rehabilitation of prisoners. During the past year we have faced the ongoing challenge of a rise in our oral hearings caseload along with a significant backlog of outstanding cases carried over from the previous year. Our response has been to hold a record number of oral hearings for the second year running to hold the backlog at a level 40% below its peak in 2010. The coming year also promises to be a challenging one as we work to hold down the backlog of outstanding cases in the face of a rising caseload and frozen budget. The Board will continue to focus on maintaining the highest standards of case management and decisio n making as part of our core mission of working with others to protect the public. I am pleased to say that the Board’s Accounts have once again received an unqualified certification from the Comptroller and Auditor General. Yours sincerely The Hon Mr Justice Butterfield Acting Chair 2 Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 Mission Statement The Parole Board is an independent body that works with its criminal justice partners to protect the public by risk assessing prisoners to decide whether they can be safely released into the community Parole Board for England and Wales Grenadier House 99-105 Horseferry Road London, SW1P 2DX Enquiries: 0300 047 4600 Fax: 0300 047 4707 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.justice.gov.uk Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 3 Contents About the Parole Board 4 Key Statistics 6 Chair’s Foreword 8 Chief Executive’s Review of the Year 10 Operations 12 Quality and Standards 13 Performance and Development 15 Human Resources 17 Litigation 18 Corporate Affairs 21 Statistics 25 Statement of Accounts 43 Membership of the Parole Board 85 Glossary 105 4 Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 About the Parole Board What is the Parole Board? Indeterminate sentence prisoners The Parole Board is an independent body that works These include life sentence prisoners (mandatory with its criminal justice partners to protect the life, discretionary life and automatic life sentence public by risk assessing prisoners to decide whether prisoners and Her Majesty’s Pleasure detainees) they can be safely released into the community. and prisoners given indeterminate sentences for public protection (IPP). The Parole Board considers What are the aims of the Parole whether these prisoners are safe to release into the Board? community once they have completed their tariff (the minimum time they must spend in prison) and The Parole Board aims to: also whether they are safe to re-release following • Make risk assessments which are rigorous, fair recall for a breach of their licence conditions (the and timely with the primary aim of protecting the rules which they must observe upon release). public and which contribute to the rehabilitation of prisoners where appropriate. • Demonstrate effective and accountable Determinate sentence prisoners corporate governance by maintaining strong These include discretionary conditional release internal control, setting clear objectives and (DCR) prisoners serving more than 4 years whose managing corporate risk and to deliver best offence was committed before 4 April 2005 and value by optimum use of resources. prisoners given extended sentences for public • Promote the independence of and confidence protection (EPP) for offences committed on or after in the work of the Board, while effectively 4 April 2005. The Parole Board directs the release of managing change. those who have completed the minimum time they must spend in prison and the Board has considered What are the responsibilities safe to release into the community. The Board also of the Parole Board? considers any determinate prisoner referred by the Secretary of State following recall to prison for The Parole Board for England and Wales was a breach of their parole licence conditions established in 1968 under the Criminal Justice Act (the rules which they must observe upon release) 1967. It became an independent Executive Non- as to whether they are safe to re-release into Departmental Public Body (NDPB) on 1 July 1996 the community. under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The Parole Board’s role is to make risk assessments about prisoners to decide who may safely be released What types of hearing does into the community or to make recommendations for the Parole Board hold? their transfer to open prison conditions. The Parole Board holds two types of hearing: The Parole Board has responsibility for considering Oral hearings the following types of cases: These normally take place in prison. For life sentence prisoners they will usually be chaired by a judge, but Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 5 most IPP cases will be chaired by an experienced The panel takes a considered decision on the basis Parole Board independent member. Where the of a dossier that contains reports from prison circumstances of the case warrant it the panel staff and offender managers as well as details of will include a psychologist or psychiatrist. the prisoner’s offending history. The dossier also The third person will be an independent or contains a variety of formal risk assessments based probation member. on offending history, behaviour in prison, courses completed and psychological assessments. The dossier may also contain a victim impact statement In addition to the prisoner and the panel, or a victim personal statement. others who may be present include the legal representative of the prisoner, together with Paper panels are used to consider the majority a public protection advocate representing the of cases where a determinate sentence prisoner Secretary of State and the victim, and witnesses is applying for parole and also serve as the initial such as the prisoner’s offender manager and hearing for all cases where a determinate prisoner prison psychologist. The victim might also be has been recalled to prison. in attendance in order to present their victim personal statement. Oral hearings are used to consider the majority of cases where an indeterminate sentence prisoner is applying for release and also for some cases, involving both determinate and indeterminate sentences, where a prisoner is making representations against a decision to recall them to prison. Oral hearings are also held before a single member in certain recall cases. The member will hold the hearing either at the prison or remotely using video-link. Paper hearings Parole Board members sit in panels of one, two or three to consider cases on the papers and each member contributes to them on an equal footing. Any type of member can sit on these panels. 5466 Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 Key Statistics 26,414 878 The number of cases considered The number of determinate during the year. This compared sentence cases considered by with 25,566 in 2010/11, up by paper panels during the year. 3.3%. This rise in total cases is due This compared with 1,381 in to an increase in indeterminate 2010/11, down by 36%.
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