Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department over the last 12 months of expanding recall eligibility to those released from short prison sentences.

The Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, which introduced licence and post sentence supervision for those serving short custodial sentences, applies to offences committed on or after 1 February 2015. Final proven reoffending data for those serving sentences imposed after the changes to the supervision of short sentences is not yet available. As with all new legislation, the operation of recall is kept under review.