Prisoners' Release
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Risk Assessed Recall Review applications on behalf of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection have been (a) submitted, (b) accepted, and (c) directed for release, in each month since November 2024.
Answered by Jake Richards
Since 1 November 2024, officials in the Public Protection Casework Section (PPCS) in HMPPS has on behalf of the Secretary of State considered the suitability of every newly recalled IPP prisoner for re-release under RARR. That means that the recalled offender does not need to make an application for RARR. In each case, officials in PPCS will have regard to any recommendation made by the offender’s community offender manager. The number of recalled IPP offenders re-released via RARR in each month from 1 November 2024 to 30 September 2025 is given in the table below.
Year | Month | Release Decisions |
2024 | November | 0 |
2024 | December | 3 |
2025 | January | 8 |
2025 | February | 5 |
2025 | March | 8 |
2025 | April | 4 |
2025 | May | 4 |
2025 | June | 8 |
2025 | July | 7 |
2025 | August | 1 |
2025 | September | 2 |
Note:
Data quality: 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.
We have provided the RARR release data up to 30 September 2025 as we have only published general release data up to 30 September 2025.
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