Question follow-through · 87637

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been wrongly released from prison since July 2024.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 3 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 5 Nov 2025
Answer: 11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been wrongly released from prison since July 2024.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 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 are clamping down on those releases in error ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Prisoners' Release

10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been wrongly released from HM Prisons since July 2024 were still at large on 1 November 2025.