Prisoners' Release

(asked on 17th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many recalls to custody initiated by the probation service in 2024 were for people serving a (1) standard determinate sentence, (2) extended determinate sentence, (3) mandatory life sentence, (4) discretionary life sentence, (5) automatic life sentence (imposed on or before 4 April 2005), and (6) automatic life sentence (imposed after 4 April 2005).


Answered by
Lord Timpson Portrait
Lord Timpson
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 5th January 2026

The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) on the prison population.

The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to these questions could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central records are not kept in a way that they can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information.

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