Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of original crimes committed by people who were subsequently convicted of a Serious Further Offence in each year since 2010.

Currently, this question could only be answered at disproportionate costs.

His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) maintains a record of previous offending for supervised offenders, drawn from court records and other reliable sources of information. To publish a complete record of previous criminal convictions for every offender who is convicted of a serious further offence (SFO), would need to comply with the Statutory Code on the Publication of Official Statistics.

SFOs are incredibly rare, with fewer than 0.5% of offenders supervised by the Probation Service going on to commit an SFO but each one is investigated fully so we can take action where necessary. We have also injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year into the Probation Service to deliver tougher supervision, reduce caseloads and recruit thousands more staff to keep the public safer.