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(4) reviews by the SAB of offenders under license under section 306 of the CSA Act; and
(5) whether all cancellations of parole or PD automatically resulted in return to full time prison and, if not, the circumstances where this was not the case.
Mr Rattenbury: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
The Sentence Administration Board has advised that the answers to specific questions for the 2012-13 financial year are below. Data for 2013-14 will be available in the Sentence Administration Board Annual Report which is published as an annexure to the 2013-14 Justice and Community Safety (JACS) Annual Report.
(1) For the 2012 – 2013 financial year 2 parole orders were cancelled as a consequence of re-offence.
(2) For the 2012 – 2013 financial year 2 periodic detention orders were cancelled as a result of re-offence.
(3) The Sentence Administration Section, which provides support to the Sentence Administration Board, has identified a number of inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the data reported in the Sentence Administration Board Annual Reports. These data issues can be mainly attributed to changes in counting methodologies, changes in what was reported on in different years by different Sentence Administration Board Chairs but also due to errors in counting.
A table with correct historic data is provided at Attachment A (and will also be included in the 2014-15 JACS Annual Report).
The Member’s question asked that information be provided for the last eight years. As such, the Member will note that data for six years has been provided and that the 2005-06 and 2006-07 financial years have been omitted. Prior to 2007-08 the Sentence Administration Sentence did not record these figures in an automated fashion, as was available for subsequent years.
Any effort to retrospectively obtain and collate the figures requested in the Member’s question would place an unreasonable time and resource impost on ACT Corrective Services. I can only refer the Member to data available in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 Annual Reports.
The powers of the Sentence Administration Board, as detailed in Chapters 7 and 8 of the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005 are complex and it is difficult to report against these in a simple way. It is important to note that various powers under these Chapters may be enacted concurrently. The Member will note a number of references within the Attachment which are included to explain instances where this may occur.
The responses to parts 3(j) and 3(m) are based on the SAB information. Any further questions about the execution of warrants should be directed to ACT Policing through the Attorney-General.
(4) Data for the previous six years is provided at table 2 of Attachment A.
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