Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) fast and (b) part delivery pre-sentence reports were prepared in the latest year for which information is available for offenders with (i) no, (ii) one to 14, (iii) 15 to 49, (iv) 50 to 99 and (v) 100 or more previous convictions.

There are only two types of pre-sentence report which the Probation Service will provide to the Court – a Fast Delivery Report (FDR) and a Standard Delivery Report (SDR). Both the FDR and the SDR are informed by a full risk and an offence analysis; in the case of the more prolific offenders with a FDR, that will be a recent assessment, so that a fresh one does not need to be completed as part of the pre-sentence advice provided to the Court.

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is working to improve the quality of information held on the national case management system – NDelius. However, neither NDelius nor the Offender Assessment System (OASys) holds information to answer the precise terms of this question.