Member

Moreover, the framework already provides sufficient flexibility without further legislative change. The Bill allows the Secretary of State to keep the offender in custody past 56 days in exceptional circumstances by overriding automatic re-release and converting a fixed-term recall to a standard recall. This would apply if further information after recall revealed that the offender now fell into one of the exclusion categories or if the offender would pose a risk of significant harm to the public by committing murder or specified violent or sexual offences once released.