Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders supervised by (a) the National Probation Service and (b) the Community Rehabilitation Company in Wales were taken back to prison having missed appointments in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2016.

We do not hold data on reason for recall centrally. Failure to attend appointments would be recorded as either the generic ‘failure to comply’ or the specific ‘failure to register’ where the recall was related to failing to attend the initial post-release appointment. It would not be possible to collate how many of the ‘failure to comply/register’ recalls were in relation to breached curfews without checking each individual case. The information therefore can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.