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Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the recall to prison programme.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the recall to prison programme.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government’s absolute focus is on public protection. Offenders on licence can be swiftly recalled to prison if they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to indicate that their risk to the public has increased and they are about to commit f...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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