Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2021 to Question 49080, on Reoffenders, what proportion of single justice procedure convictions are recordable.

For the year ending March 2021, approximately 670 defendants were dealt with at the magistrates’ courts under SJP where the offence was deemed ‘recordable on the PNC’, which makes up 0.1% of the total defendants dealt with via SJP in that period (489,910). We are unable to say how many of these defendants were convicted of the recordable offence without incurring a disproportionate cost.