Prisoners continue to be released mistakenly with a further 12 inmates let out of jail in error since November, the UK justice secretary has revealed.

David Lammy told BBC Breakfast that despite the latest figures the “trend is downwards” after improvements to the system were put in place.

Lammy told the House of Commons in mid-November that there were 91 accidental releases in England and Wales between 1 April and 31 October this year.

He said on Tuesday: “Well, I said to parliament a few weeks ago, I released data at that point, and there had been 91 releases in error up to that point, there have been 12 since then, two are currently at large.”

Lammy said two prisoners were still at large and confirmed they were not violent or sexual offenders.

He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:

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