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Prisoners

Lords · Question HL13157 · Tabled 18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 5 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Lord Blunkett

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence were in prison on recall as of 1 December 2025 following a breach of licence conditions where no further criminal charge was brought; and to provide a b

Answer

Answered by Lord Timpson, 5 Jan 2026

Data on the prison population is published as part of the Department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) release, with the latest publication including prison population data as at 30 September 2025. The requested information (based on the p...