Life Imprisonment: Prisoners' Release
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving a life sentence have been released on licence since 5 July 2024.
Answered by Jake Richards
The number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were released for the first time (i.e. excluding recall re-releases) from 5 July 2024 to 30 Sep 2024 was 68. The number of prisoners serving a life sentence prisoners re-released in the same period, having previously been recalled, was 73.
In total, 141 prisoners serving a life sentence were released during this period.
Data for periods after 30 September are routinely published in the Department’s Offender Management Statistics. First releases data is included in the ‘Prison releases’ tables and recall re-release data is included in the ‘Prison Recall’ tables. The latest quarterly publication is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2025.
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