Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders received a fixed-term recall for (a) breaching the terms of their licence, (b) committing a further offence, (c) a combination of breaching their licence and reoffending and (d) any other reason in the latest year for which information is available.

The number of recalls to prison that were fixed-term, in England and Wales for the period April 2016 to March 2017 was 7,515

The only basis for recall is the breach of one or more licence conditions. In some cases, this may involve further offending. The information in the table below is taken from table 5.10 of the licence recalls workbook (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017). Whereas the published table provides reason for recall for all recalled offenders, the table below only includes prisoners who have been recalled on a fixed term recall.

Anyone who commits a crime while on licence may face prosecution and potentially more time in prison. For more serious offences, they can be held in prison on remand until trial.

Shorter fixed-term recalls are only issued to offenders who don’t pose a risk of serious harm to the public.

The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. Recall reasons do not sum to the total number of recalls as more than one reason can be recorded against each recall.