Question follow-through · 86998

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners erroneously released since July 2024 have since been recaptured.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 31 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 4 Nov 2025
Answer: 10 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners erroneously released since July 2024 have since been recaptured.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
Releases in error have been increasing for several years and are another symptom of the prison system crisis inherited by this Government.While the overwhelming majority of offenders are released correctly, we’re clamping down on those releases in error t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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