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.
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 |