Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of women released and subsequently returned to custody following a technical breach of a supervision condition, excluding those returned for the commission of a further offence, was in each of the last four years.

Data on releases and reasons for recall are currently published, broken down by gender, for the period 1 January 2015 to 30 September 2016 in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly ).

Before 2015, only one reason could be recorded against each recall. Therefore, to provide the data requested, we would have manually to check each record to identify if there were further charges; this would incur disproportionate costs.