Reoffenders

(asked on 8th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were given fixed-term recalls in the latest year for which information is available; and for which original offences those recalls were given.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
This question was answered on 6th November 2015

The number and type of recalls are published in the licence recall tables within the offender management statistics quarterly, found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.


The table below shows fixed term recalls broken down by their index offence category.


Number of fixed-term recalls by original offence, 2014



Violence against the person

546

Sexual offences

27

Robbery

622

Burglary

3,849

Theft and handling

641

Fraud and forgery

141

Drug offences

1,146

Motoring offences

120

Other offences

394


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