Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people supervised by the probation service were on post sentence supervision licences in each of the last 12 months.

Offenders under post-sentence supervision (PSS) by the Probation Service, at end of period, July 2022 to June 2023, England and Wales ^{(1) (2)}

(1) Under the Offender Rehabilitation Act 204, which came into effect on 1 February 2015, mandatory community supervision was introduced for prisoners on short sentences. Following release at the halfway point, anyone serving short term custodial sentences is now subject to a licence period for the remainder of their sentence followed by an additional 'post-sentence supervision' period which will top up the supervision period to 12 months in total. This applies to people whose offence was committed after 1 February 2015, sentenced to a prison term of more than one day and less than 24 months and who will be 18 or over when released.

(2) Offenders are counted as being under PSS if they are eligible (i.e., the sentence is custodial with length greater than one day and less than 24 months, the sentence date is on or after 1 February 2015, and they are aged 18 or over on the release date) and the end of period date occurs after the licence expiry date but before the PSS expiry date.

Data sources and quality

The Ministry of Justice does not hold the data in the way it has been asked and has calculated the answer (as explained in footnote 2) using data drawn from its administrative IT systems. As with any large-scale recording system and calculations made from it, data are subject to possible errors.

Source: National Delius case management system.