Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the re-offending rate in relation to prison sentences of (a) less than six months and (b) more than six months.

Adult proven reoffending data, broken down by a custodial sentence length of six months or less and a custodial sentence length of more than six months (including indeterminate sentenced prisoners), can be viewed in the table.