Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners have accessed Sex Offender Treatment Programmes since 2015.
Participation figures are drawn directly from the published data available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2019-to-march-2020. Percentages have been added alongside this data to represent the proportion of prisoners who started a programme for those convicted of a Sexual Offence vs. the total number of programme starts in a given year.
| Total Programme Participants in 12 months ending March | |||||
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
Sexual Offending | 1056 | 1113 | 1141 | 1022 | 1154 | 1133 |
Proportion SO Participants vs. Total Participants per year | 12.11% | 14.01% | 14.84% | 16.62% | 19.80% | 19.79% |