Prisoners' Release: Reoffenders

(asked on 21st November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people released under investigation in each year since 2017 went on to commit another offence.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 28th November 2023

The Home Office has collected and published information on the number of people released under investigation since April 2020. The most recent data, up to March 2022, is available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116971/released-under-investigation-data-tables-police-powers-and-procedures-year-ending-march-2022.ods

The Home Office does not centrally collect data on how many people released under investigation went on to commit another offence.

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