Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were recalled from licence to prison in each year since 2010.

The number of recalls(1) from licence to prison in each year since 2010 is set out in the table below.

(1) The table includes instances of offenders recalled multiple times. Recording of data over time did not always contain unique identifiers, making identification of unique offenders in historical datasets not possible without significant manual checks

* Covers only the first two quarters of 2022.

The Government is focused on public protection.  Offenders on licence can be recalled to prison at any time if they breach their licence conditions.

We routinely publish recall data at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.