Question follow-through · 8145

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released at 40% of sentence point under her Department's early release scheme have been recalled to prison since 10 September 2024.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 9 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2024
Answer: 18 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released at 40% of sentence point under her Department's early release scheme have been recalled to prison since 10 September 2024.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
Data on SDS40 releases, including number of recalls, forms a subset of data intended for future publication.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Prisoners' Release

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date the last of the prisoners who were released in error in September 2024 under the SDS40 early release scheme returned to prison.