Question follow-through · 14928
Mentally Disordered Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Table 8 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, England and Wales, 2025 release, published on 30 April 2026, of the 297 restricted patients recalled to hospital following conditional discharge, h
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Table 8 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, England and Wales, 2025 release, published on 30 April 2026, of the 297 restricted patients recalled to hospital following conditional discharge, h
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2026
Answer published
Of the 297 recalls of restricted patients to hospital following conditional discharge published in Table 7 (not Table 8), (a) 66 were discharged by the Secretary of State and (b) 231 by the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health).
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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