Tait is one of 13 Leicester Tigers players selected in the Senior Elite Player and the England Saxons squads for the coming season.
It is the first time Tait, who was a key member of Tigers’ Aviva Premiership winning squad last season, has been named in an England squad since his move to Welford Road in 2011. The full-back won the last of his 38 Test caps against Australia in Perth in 2010.
Lancaster said: “Mathew Tait was in great from at the end of last season and he is a quality player. With the players we’ve got in the back three he’s going to add to that and put pressure on the ones above.”
Tait is joined in the Saxons squad by Tigers teammates Anthony Allen, Jordan Crane, Graham Kitchener, Ed Slater and Thomas Waldrom.
Dan Cole, Tom Croft, Toby Flood, Geoff Parling, Manu Tuilagi, Ben Youngs and Tom Youngs retain their places in the Elite Player Squad.
Cole, Croft, Parling, Tuilagi and the Youngs brothers all played their parts in the British & Irish Lions Test series victory over Australia in the summer, while Flood is named in the squad after being rested for England's tour to Argentina.
In all, England have made six changes to the Elite Player Squad. Lock David Attwood (Bath Rugby), flanker Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby), No.8 Billy Vunipola (Saracens), centre Kyle Eastmond (Bath Rugby) and wings Christian Wade (London Wasps) and Marland Yarde (London Irish) step up into the 33-man group.
Lancaster said: "This was the toughest EPS selection we've had to make with fierce competition for places in every area of the squad after an excellent summer for England players at all levels.
"Twelve current England players were part of a victorious British & Irish Lions tour, eight others won their first caps in Argentina, a number of rested senior players will have benefited from their break and the future looks healthy after our Under 20 side won the Junior World Championship for the first time.”
Lancaster added: "The task for all of them and those in the Saxons is to be in peak form and pushing for places in the team for the QBE Internationals against Australia, Argentina and New Zealand in November. We very much see this as a 65-man squad and we regularly see players pushing into the Squad and the team from the Saxons. Form and fitness will be the deciding factor in November."
Both squads will meet at Loughborough later this month for a three-day training camp and the senior squad reconvenes a fortnight before facing Australia on November 2. The Saxons are due to face the O2 Ireland Wolfhounds and Scotland A early in 2014.
ENGLAND SENIOR EPS (33)
Forwards
David Attwood (Bath Rugby)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Alex Corbisiero (Northampton Saints)
Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby)
Joe Launchbury (London Wasps)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
Joe Marler (Harlequins)
Ben Morgan (Gloucester Rugby)
Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)
Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Backs
Chris Ashton (Saracens)
Brad Barritt (Saracens)
Mike Brown (Harlequins)
Freddie Burns (Gloucester Rugby)
Danny Care (Harlequins)
Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
Alex Goode (Saracens)
Kyle Eastmond (Bath Rugby)
Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby)
Christian Wade (London Wasps)
Marland Yarde (London Irish)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
ENGLAND SAXONS EPS (32)
Forwards
Calum Clark (Northampton Saints)
Jordan Crane (Leicester Tigers)
Paul Doran Jones (Harlequins)
Will Fraser (Saracens)
James Haskell (London Wasps)
Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs)
Graham Kitchener (Leicester Tigers)
George Kruis (Saracens)
Kearnan Myall (London Wasps)
David Paice (London Irish)
George Robson (Harlequins)
Ed Slater (Leicester Tigers)
Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks)
Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers)
Luke Wallace (Harlequins)
Rob Webber (Bath Rugby)
Nick Wood (Gloucester Rugby)
Backs
Anthony Allen (Leicester Tigers)
Luther Burrell (Northampton Saints)
Elliot Daly (London Wasps)
George Ford (Bath Rugby)
Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby)
Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby)
Ugo Monye (Harlequins)
Stephen Myler (Northampton Saints)
Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs)
Charlie Sharples (Gloucester Rugby)
Joe Simpson (London Wasps)
David Strettle (Saracens)
Mathew Tait (Leicester Tigers)
Joel Tomkins (Saracens)
Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens)
