Accredited official statistics

Offender management statistics quarterly: July to September 2025

Detailed quarterly statistics on offenders in custody (including offence groups, sentence lengths and nationalities), and quarterly statistics on prison receptions, prison releases, adjudications, licence recalls and offenders under probation supervision. Updated transparency data on prison releases under SDS40 has been published in parallel with these quarterly statistics.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Prison population: 31 December 2025

Prison population data tool: 31 December 2025

Prison receptions:July to September 2025

Prison releases: July to September 2025

Prison adjudications: July to September 2025

Prison recalls: July to September 2025

Probation: July to September 2025

Details

Latest figures for the quarter July to September 2025 are provided and compared to the same period in 2024. This is with the exception of the prison population where more recent data are available (31 December 2025).

It covers flows into these services (receptions into prison or probation starts) and flows out (releases from prison or probation terminations) as well as the caseload of these services at specific points in time.

Pre-release list Offender Management Statistics are produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State, Minister for Prisons, Minister for Youth Justice, Special Advisors (SpAds), Permanent secretaries, Relevant private secretaries (x9), HMPPS Chief Executive, Director General HMPPS Operations, Director General Prisons Policy, Youth Custody Service Executive Director, Deputy Director (Chief Statistician), Deputy Director Probation, Deputy Director Prison Safety & Security, Analytical officers (x14), Policy officers (x8), Press officers (x7).

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Deputy Director, Head of Public Protection Group (PPG), Head of Post-release Casework Section; Analytical officers (x2), Policy officers (x2).

Updates to this page

Published 29 January 2026

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