Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of subsequent offences committed by defendants on bail in each of the last 12 years by type of offence.

The offences committed by individuals on bail in each of the last 12 years by type of offence can be viewed in the attached table.

The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the independent judiciary courts acting in accordance with the law. The procedures for considering bail or remand are set out in the Bail Act 1976.

An individual may have been charged for multiple offences (on different dates) and therefore the figure for each offence doesn’t necessarily represent a new offender each time.

This data covers England and Wales and includes all 43 police forces and the British Transport Police. The number of offences are those committed on all types of bail. The MOJ extract of the Police National Computer does not differentiate between offences committed by defendants on bail while awaiting trial and those committed by offenders on bail after conviction and awaiting sentence.