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Question follow-through · 65243

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that prisoners released from recall spent on recall in each year for which data are available.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that prisoners released from recall spent on recall in each year for which data are available.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The requested information for indeterminate prisoners re-released following recall can be found in Table 5_Q_11 of the Department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication: licence-recalls-Oct-to-Dec-2024.ods.The corresponding information for...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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