Reoffenders: Staffordshire

(asked on 29th August 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many repeat offenders in (a) South Staffordshire constituency, (b) Staffordshire and (c) Wolverhampton were cautioned or sentenced for recordable offences in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of total offences were attributable to such offenders in that period.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 4th September 2014

The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police National Computer (PNC), which is used for analyses of offenders’ criminal histories, only holds information on cautions and convictions given for recordable offences. The information held on MoJ’s extract of the PNC will only allow a breakdown by police force area. To provide you with information at a lower level than this as requested, we would need to contact all courts and police forces in the South Staffordshire constituency, and in the Staffordshire and Wolverhampton areas which could only be done at a disproportionate cost.

The Ministry of Justice can only provide information on repeat offenders by police force area. Staffordshire police force area would include Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent local authorities, and the West Midlands police force area would include Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton local authorities.

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