Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that prisoners released from recall spent on recall in each year for which data are available.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The requested information for indeterminate prisoners re-released following recall can be found in Table 5_Q_11 of the Department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication: licence-recalls-Oct-to-Dec-2024.ods.
The corresponding information for determinate sentenced prisoners is only obtainable at disproportionate cost as it requires data matching between different data systems (namely prison recall information from the Public Protection Unit Database, and prisoner release information from prison-NOMIS).
Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of people in prison on custodial sentences was in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Information on the number of people in prison on custodial sentences is published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly.
Data from 2002-2015 can be found in Table 1.Leg.1 at the following link: Prison-population-2002-to-2015.ods.
Data from 2015-2024 can be found in Table 1.A.1 at the following link: Prison-population-2015-to-2024.ods.
Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60037 on Dentistry: Higher Education, when he expects the Privy Council approval process to be completed.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Privy Council must be satisfied that it has all the required information before it can make a final decision to award Dental Authority Status to an organisation.
I understand that the Privy Council Office has recently requested additional information from Portsmouth Dental Academy pertinent to its application, and that it is awaiting a response.