Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people released from prison reoffended within six months in each region in each of the last five years.

The Government does not hold six month proven re-offending rates.

A link to the one year proven re-offending rates for the last five years for those released from custody can be found here in table C2a (Adult proven re-offending data) and C2b (Juvenile proven re-offending data):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473093/proven-reoffending-2013-tables.xlsx

In the quarterly proven re-offending statistics, a proven re-offence is defined as any offence committed in a one year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in the one year follow-up or within a further six month waiting period to allow the offence to be proven in court.