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Prisoners' Release: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of using Splink to reduce the number of prisoner released in error.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Nov 2025
Target answer date
12 Nov 2025
Answer
18 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of using Splink to reduce the number of prisoner released in error.

  2. 12 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Splink, a probabilistic data-linking tool, is being used to deduplicate and connect records across multiple Ministry of Justice datasets. The Core Person Record service, which links data from courts, prisons and probation, leverages Splink to improve data...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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