Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to table 4 of the Restricted Patients Statistics, published on 30 April 2026, how many restricted patients detained in hospital and admitted not from prison, who had previously been discharged into the community, have there been in each year since 2005.

The data requested are not collected. To do so would require a new manual process and is therefore subject to a cost exemption. However, the annual totals of restricted patients admitted from a previous conditional discharge (via recall from the community) are published in the restricted patients’ statistics. See table 7, row 24: Restricted_Patients_Statistics_2025.ods.