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Prison Sentences and Reoffenders: Costs

Commons · Question 38680 · Tabled 17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 24 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is for processing (a) a fixed term and (b) an emergency recall to prison.

Answer

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 24 Mar 2025

The process of recalling an offender to custody, whether for a fixed-term or in an emergency, involves activity and administration on the part of the Probation Service (which requests recall); officials in HM Prison and Probation Service (who revoke the o...