Prisoners' Release

(asked on 4th October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a daily update on the (a) number of offenders released early as a consequence of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods) Order 2024 and (b) number of those offenders who have subsequently (i) re-offended and (ii) been returned to custody.


Answered by
Nicholas Dakin Portrait
Nicholas Dakin
Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 14th October 2024

As set out in the Statutory Instrument to Amend the Standard Determinate Sentence Automatic Release Point Impact Assessment published on 17 July 2024 (available at the link below), prison population and release figures are monitored and published as part of the Offender Management Statistics.
Data on SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf.

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