Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people recalled to prison were recalled due to (a) new offences, (b) a lack of address and (c) non-compliance with appointments in the latest 12 months for which data is available.

Public protection is our priority. The decision to recall on offender on licensed supervision is taken on the professional advice of senior probation staff following consideration of safe alternatives to recall. Where offenders are recalled, it is because they present a risk of serious harm to the public and the controls available are no longer sufficient to keep the public safe. These individuals will remain in prison for only as long as necessary to protect the public.

Reasons for recall are recorded and published as set out in the table below. Further breakdown of recall reasons is not possible without significant manual checks.

1. * Figures for Jan-Mar 2023 have been revised since last publication.

2. The table includes instances of offenders recalled multiple times.

3. Recall reasons do not sum to the total number of recalls published, as more than one reason can be recorded against each recall.

We routinely publish recall data at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.