Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners convicted of what offence and with what period of sentence left to serve who were released from prison in error (a) have and (b) have not been returned to custody in each of the last five years.

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The latest regularly published information on releases in error can be found within the NOMS Annual Digest 2016/17 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-national-offender-management-service-digest-2016-to-2017