Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rate for individuals serving a custodial sentence for burglary is.

The proven reoffending rate for the October to December 2021 offender cohort (the latest available) who had an index offence of burglary and served a custodial sentence for this offence was 48.3%.

This Government is committed to tackling reoffending and keeping our communities safe. We are investing to address reoffending through a number of initiatives including:

• rolled out our temporary accommodation service to all probation regions to support thousands of prison leavers who would otherwise have been released homeless;
• delivering our Prison Education Service which aims to raise prisoners’ levels of literacy, numeracy and skills to help them secure jobs on release;
• recruiting 92 Prison Employment Leads across all our resettlement prisons to match prisoners to jobs; and
• introducing Employment Advisory Boards across 92 prisons, chaired by local business leaders, which link prisons with local industry in order to align skills work in prison with labour market need.

As a result, 5796 prison leavers have been supported through our temporary accommodation service between 1 July 2021 and 31 March 2023, while the proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023 from 14% to over 30%.

Between 2010/11 and 2020/21, the overall proven reoffending rate decreased from 31.6% to 24.4%.