Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been released from prison in each of the last three years for which records are available; how many of those prisoners were released to (a) a fixed address, (b) HMPPS bridging accommodation and (c) no fixed address; and how many of those released to no fixed address have (i) reoffended and (ii) reoffended and returned to prison.
Data on the number of prisoners who have been released is published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication by the Ministry of Justice.
The total number of prisoners who have been released in each of the last three years is given in the following table:
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Number released | 69,622 | 62,771 | 53,253 |
Data on the accommodation status of prisoners who have been released is published as part of the Prison and Probation statistics publication by the Ministry of Justice.
The attached table shows the numbers of prisoners who were released to (a) a fixed address, (b) HMPPS bridging accommodation and (c) no fixed address from 2018-2020.
The following table provides the number of individuals released from prison to no fixed address and subsequently (i) reoffended and (ii) reoffended and returned to prison is provided in the table below:
Number of adult reoffenders with no fixed address, 2017/18 to 2019/20, England and Wales1, 2, 3
| 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
Total number of adult offenders released from prison | 62,936 | 58,104 | 53,777 |
Number of reoffenders with no fixed address3 | 5,688 | 5,343 | 5,195 |
Number of reoffenders with no fixed address who returned to prison 4 | 3,252 | 3,108 | 2,973 |
Notes
Figures are based on the first reoffence for which an offender returned to custody. Each offender will therefore only appear once in this category.
To note the numbers released from prison will differ between each of the tables driven mainly by different time periods and different counting rules.