Terrorism: Reoffenders
(asked on 22nd January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people released on licence with a terror-related conviction have been recalled to prison after breaching their licence conditions in each year since 2010; and what proportion of these were recalled specifically for engaging in subsequent terror-related activity for each year.
The numbers of offenders with a terror-related conviction who have been released on licence and subsequently recalled to prison is set out in the table below. The table also sets out how many of those individuals were recalled in connection with engaging in a terror-related activity.
Year | Number of offenders on licence for a terror-related conviction recalled to prison | Number of offenders recalled specifically for engaging in subsequent terror-related activity |
2010 | 5 | 0 |
2011 | 5 | 1 |
2012 | 3 | 0 |
2013 | 6 | 1 |
2014 | 7 | 0 |
2015 | 3 | 0 |
2016 | 8 | 1 |
2017 | 4 | 0 |
2018 | 4 | 2 |
2019 | 10 | 2 |
2020 (to end of June) | 10 | 0 |
These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.