Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the offences committed by those offenders who had previously been released on licence and recalled to custody but who had not been returned to custody by 31 December 2019; and how many of those offences were in the categories of (a) violence against the person and (b) sexual offences.

On 30 January 2020 the quarterly offender management statistics were published which set out the list of original offences committed by those offenders recalled, but not returned, to custody since 1984 as of 31 December 2019. Of the 1953 offenders within this cohort, 330 had originally committed offences categorised as violence against the person and 60 as sexual offences. The full breakdown is set out below:

Once officials on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice have revoked an offender’s licence, it is for the Police to find, apprehend and return the offender to custody.