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Written question asked by Lord Garnier (Conservative) on Wednesday, 17 December 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 January 2026. It was answered by Lord Timpson (Labour) on Monday, 5 January 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.


Prisoners' Release

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government how many recalls to custody initiated by the probation service in 2024 were for people serving a (1) standard determinate sentence, (2) extended determinate sentence, (3) mandatory life sentence, (4) discretionary life sentence, (5) automatic life sentence (imposed on or before 4 April 2005), and (6) automatic life sentence (imposed after 4 April 2005).

Answer

The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) on the prison population.

The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to these questions could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central records are not kept in a way that they can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL13100
Session
2024-26
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Prisoners' release
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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