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Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison due to criminal allegations made against them which did not result in further polic

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison due to criminal allegations made against them which did not result in further polic

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Data on the number of offenders recalled to custody after becoming homeless are not held centrally and could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.Information about the number of IPP recalls is published in quarterly offender management statistics - O...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners: Costs

23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions

27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) incarcerated based on information obtained from the Gang Violence Matrix since 2011.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crimes of Violence: Convictions

27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of deleting the Gang Violence Matrix on the ability of wrongfully convicted people to appeal their convictions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gangs: Databases

30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving custodial sentences were convicted based on evidence from the Gang Violence Matrix.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gangs: Databases

31 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed deletion of the Gang Violence Matrix on (a) legal risks and (b) access to justice for affected people.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Suicide

12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on licence in the community have taken their own lives in each year since 2005.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Criminal Cases Review Commission

26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, as at 26 February 2025, how many applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission have been open for (a) over one year, (b) over two years, (c) over five years, (d) over ten years and (e) over fifteen years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Sentences

11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences were (a) classified as Category A prisoners and (b) in Category A prisons on 11 March 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons and Probation: Criminal Records

17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many paid support workers working in (a) prisons and (b) probation had criminal convictions in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons and Probation: Criminal Records

17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many volunteer support workers working in (a) prisons and (b) probation had criminal convictions in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Sentences and Reoffenders: Costs

17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is for processing (a) a fixed term and (b) an emergency recall to prison.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Sentences

24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences were in Category (a) B, (b) C and (c) D prisons as of 31 December 2024.