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How a prisoner is released - including Parole Board hearings, resettlement schemes and temporary release on licence

• When someone can leave prison

  When a prisoner is released depends on: the length of their sentence their…

• Temporary release from prison

  A prisoner may be allowed to leave prison for short periods towards the…

• Before someone leaves prison

  All prisoners get help preparing for life when they leave prison. In the…

• Support when someone leaves prison

  A person leaving prison may get the following financial support: Universal…

Find out what you need to do when importing goods from outside the UK to a customs warehouse.

• Updated: 15 October 2024

How to do a responsible species reintroduction or other conservation translocation that involves moving plants, animals or fungi to another location in the wild.

• Updated: 1 May 2025

Protections secured by the CMA are no longer needed after Google stepped back from plans which could have favoured its business in multi-billion-pound online advertising sector.

• Updated: 13 June 2025

Apply for a licence to release non-native (alien) and schedule 9 species, or release native Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures, and how to report your actions.

Government organisations who are placing contracts or releasing assets must ensure that appropriate protective security controls are in place to protect assets.

• Updated: 24 May 2018

When and how to request reconsideration of a Parole Board decision to release a prisoner.

• Updated: 3 November 2022

Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.

• Updated: 23 January 2025

• Updated: 27 February 2025

Guidelines for prisons when releasing prisoners who have been given travel restriction orders.

• Updated: 15 June 2007