Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the police take when an individual on licence from prison is arrested and charged with a criminal offence in connection with possible breach of licence conditions.

Decisions as to the action taken by the police in such cases are operational matters for the police. They will depend on the facts of each individual case, guided by information obtained from HM Prisons and Probation Service on the licence conditions and particular risks identified in prison.