Question follow-through · 2235
Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policy to change the automatic release point to 40% for certain standard determinate sentences on reoffending rates.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2024 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Prisons: Construction · 2 Sept 2024
- Civil Disorder: Custodial Treatment · 3 Sept 2024
- Prison Accommodation · 9 Sept 2024
- Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse · 9 Sept 2024
- Prisoners' Release: Victims · 10 Sept 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policy to change the automatic release point to 40% for certain standard determinate sentences on reoffending rates.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2024
Answer published
Prisoners released on SDS40 will be subject to licence and liable to recall to prison if they do not comply or are judged a risk to public safety. Reoffending rates are published regularly on an annual and quarterly basis. The most recent rates are availa...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisons: Construction
2 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to build new prisons in England and Wales.
Civil Disorder: Custodial Treatment
3 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of people jailed for violent disorder offences this summer who will be released after serving 40% of their sentence.
Prison Accommodation
9 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales to prisons overseas.
Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
9 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have been convicted of domestic abuse and (b) will be released early from prison as part of the SDS40 scheme.
Prisoners' Release: Victims
10 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had recent discussions with the Victims' Commissioner on the potential impact on victims of her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in priso
Prisoners' Release: Victims
10 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in pris
Prisoners' Release: Lincolnshire
11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people will be released from prisons in Lincolnshire under the early release scheme.
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have been electronically tagged.
Prisons: Drugs
22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many confiscations of Class A drugs took place in prisons in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last three years.
Prisons: Mobile Phones
22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many confiscations of mobile phones took place in prisons in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last three years.
Prisoners' Release
23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the offences committed by prisoners released under the early release scheme.
Open Prisons: Prisoner Escapes
23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have escaped from Category D prisons in the last 10 years.