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Prisoners' Release

Asked by Priti PatelConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 16 October 2024UIN 6180

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been released as a result of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods) Order 2024 on each day since that Order came into effect; and how many and what proportion of those offenders have (a) re-offended and (b) been returned to custody.

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin

As set out in the Statutory Instrument to Amend the Standard Determinate Sentence Automatic Release Point Impact Assessment published on 17 July 2024, prison population and release figures are monitored and published as part of the Offender Management Statistics: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf.

Data on SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication.

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