Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders who received (a) a fixed penalty notice and (b) another type of out of court disposal for a crime committed on retail premises were repeat offenders in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

he Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales. However (PQ 2640, 2641, 2642), this data does not identify the context or specific location of offences, i.e. whether that offence has been carried out on a shop worker or on retail premises.

The Home Office collates and publishes information on fixed penalty notices.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on out of court disposals including Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) and cautions up to December 2018. This information, relating to specific offences, can be found using the Out of Court Disposals data tool.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802305/out-of-court-disposal-tool-2018.xlsx

PQ 2637
• In the PND pivot replace ‘Outcome’ with ‘Offence’ in the ‘Row’ field. The total number of PNDs issued for ‘DA12 Theft (retail under £100)’ will then be displayed in row 28.

PQ 2638
• In the Cautions filter by ‘offence’ to include only ’46 Theft from Shops’. The total number of cautions issued for these offences in each year will then be displayed.