Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many recalled determinate sentenced offenders have protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010.

All recalled determinate sentence offenders will have protected characteristics as defined within the Equality Act 2010. This is because protected characteristics include, for example, gender and sexual orientation, which are universally held characteristics.

The table below provides the total number of determinate sentence offenders whose licences were revoked during the period 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014 and who were given either a standard recall or a fixed term recall. The data are broken down by gender, ethnicity and age group.

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data centrally on the number of offenders within this group who had either a physical disability, mental impairment, learning disability or who were pregnant at the point at which they were recalled. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of individual prisoner case files and this would incur disproportionate cost.

Table 1: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Gender

Table 2: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Ethnicity

Table 3: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Age