Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Fixed Term Recalls there were in 2023.

As at 31 December 2023, 0.3% of the prison population were on a fixed-term recall to custody. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database held by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.

From January to September 2023, 4,889 fixed term recalls were issued. Figures for the last quarter of 2023 will be published in April.