Mr David Lammy

Mr David Lammy

Labour — Tottenham

Speaking in the House of Commons on 11 November 2025

Debate

Prisoner Releases in Error

Contribution

My hon. Friend is right. That is one of the reasons that I asked Dame Lynne Owens, as she looks at this issue, to meet the victims—particularly the victims of Kebatu’s crime—and to keep them in mind. Notwithstanding the errors made, we have to ensure public confidence in the system. It is important to assert, once again from this Dispatch Box, that 57,000 people are released from prisons every year and there is no error at all in the vast majority of those releases.

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