Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rates of prisoners held in each prison was in each of the last 10 years.

Statistics on proven re-offending for adult offenders in England and Wales released from custody, by individual prison, are published on a quarterly basis by the Ministry of Justice in the ‘Proven Re-offending Statistics Quarterly Bulletin'. The latest figures, covering the period July 2011 to June 2012, can be found in Tables 22a (for offenders released from custodial sentences of less than 12 months) and 22b (for offenders released from custodial sentences of 12 months or more) at the link below

www.gov.uk/government/publications/proven-reoffending-statistics-quarterly-statistics-july-2011-to-june-2012

Note that tables 22a and 22b provide proven re-offending data for adult offenders released from custody between 2007 and the 12 months ending June 2012. Data, for this particular breakdown, are not available prior to 2007.

The Transforming Rehabilitation programme for England and Wales is changing the way offenders are managed in the community in order to bring down reoffending rates while continuing to protect the public.