Sexual Offences: Rehabilitation

(asked on 8th July 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 15th July 2021

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%

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