Asked by: Baroness Stroud (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of adult offenders were in employment one year after (1) a caution, (2) a conviction, and (3) release from prison, in each year since 2012.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
We do not currently hold the data as requested. We are working with HM Revenue and Customs and Department for Work and Pensions to capture this information in the future.
From a previous joint exercise between the Ministry of Justice, HMRC and DWP to analyse the links between employment, benefits and reoffending, we know that in 2011-12, one year after a:
- police caution: 40% of working age offenders were in P45 employment
- release from prison: 17% of working age offenders were in P45 employment
Securing employment after a sentence has a positive impact on rates of reoffending. Offenders who found P45 employment in the twelve months after release from prison had one year re-offending rates that were 6-9 percentage points lower than similar offenders who did not find employment.
Asked by: Baroness Stroud (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in each year since it came into force; and what were their (1) nationalities, (2) ages, and (3) genders.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
The number of defendants prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in England and Wales, from 2015 to 2017, can be found in the table, split by sex and age. Information on nationality is not centrally held by the Ministry of Justice.
Number of people prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 by age and sex, 2015(1)(2)
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10-14 | - | - | - | - |
15-17 | - | - | - | - |
18-20 | - | - | - | - |
21-24 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
25+ | 9 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
Unknown | - | - | - | - |
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Total | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
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(1) The figures given in the table relate to defendants for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
(2) There can be a delay between the commencement of new offences and seeing them in court data, primarily due to the time it takes for an offence to be investigated, the police to assign it an outcome, and the prosecution, before resulting in a completed court case
Figures for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.
Asked by: Baroness Stroud (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of adult offenders did not reoffend within one year of (1) conviction, and (2) release from prison, in each year since 2014.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
The percentage of adult offenders that did not reoffend within one year of conviction in each year since 2014:
The percentage of adult offenders that did not reoffend within one year of release from prison in each year since 2014:
We do not have figures beyond March 2016 as the data is not yet available.
Reoffending is costing society approximately £15 billion a year. Effective rehabilitation needs prisoners to be willing to commit to change, take advice, learn new skills and take opportunities to work – both during their sentence and after. On 24 May 2018, we launched the Education and Employment Strategy that will support ex-offenders to engage in education and secure employment so that they are less likely to reoffend.
In addition, the Cabinet Office is introducing a new Reducing Reoffending group that will work across government to tackle some of the main causes of reoffending, including employment, health and accommodation