Prisoners Release

Justice

Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009

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Alan Duncan (Shadow Minister (Prisons), Justice; Rutland & Melton, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 16 September 2009, Official Report, column 2266W, on prisons: manpower, how many prisoners released on licence and subsequently recalled to prison since 1997 remain at large.

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Jack Straw (Lord Chancellor, Ministry of Justice; Blackburn, Labour)

Of the prisoners released on licence and subsequently recalled to prison between 1 January 1997 and 30 June 2009, a total of 741 had not been returned to custody as at 16 October 2009.

This figure is based on the data in table 1 of an information release published on 30 October 2009 and available on the Ministry of Justice website under "Licence recalls and returns to custody: audit of licence revocation—Ministry of Justice":

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

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