Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 9 November 2022.
Conor McGinn
Labour, St Helens North
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were recalled from licence to prison in each year since 2010.
Damian Hinds
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
The number of recalls(1) from licence to prison in each year since 2010 is set out in the table below.
(1) The table includes instances of offenders recalled multiple times. Recording of data over time did not always contain unique identifiers, making identification of unique offenders in historical datasets not possible without significant manual checks
Year | Number of Recalls |
2010 | 15,475 |
2011 | 16,297 |
2012 | 16,581 |
2013 | 17,332 |
2014 | 17,649 |
2015 | 21,467 |
2016 | 21,559 |
2017 | 21,915 |
2018 | 24,268 |
2019 | 26,503 |
2020 | 24,437 |
2021 | 22,105 |
2022 | 11,270* |
* Covers only the first two quarters of 2022.
The Government is focused on public protection. Offenders on licence can be recalled to prison at any time if they breach their licence conditions.
We routinely publish recall data at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.
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