Apr. 27 2023
Source Page: Proven reoffending statistics: April to June 2021Found: interval Number of offenders in the eligible cohort Number of offenders in the measurable cohort Number of reoffenders
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of re-offending amongst former prisoners in each of the last five years.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The average overall proven reoffending rate for adults released from custody in England and Wales was 38.0% in 2020/21 (the latest year for which reoffending data is available), down from 48.4% in 2016/17.
Information on reoffending rates up to 2021 can be found online in our Proven Reoffending Collection: Proven reoffending statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Sarah Owen (Labour - Luton North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been convicted of a serious further offence of murder, by type of index sentence in each year between 2010 and 2015.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The table below sets out the total number of convictions, where an offender subject to probation supervision was charged with a serious further offence (SFO), which resulted subsequently in a conviction for murder, for all cases notified to what is now HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2015.
Index Sentence | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Community Supervision | 33 | 45 | 32 | 27 | 23 | 23 |
Determinate Prison Sentence | 16 | 26 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 17 |
Life Licence | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
IPP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 50 | 73 | 51 | 53 | 48 | 43 |
1. Time period for conviction data relates to the date of SFO notification to HMPPS not the date of conviction.
2. Index sentence refers to the sentencing disposal imposed by the court which led to probation services supervision of the offender.
3. The data only includes convictions for serious further offences of murder that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.
4. Conviction data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where the judicial process concluded that they were responsible.
5. The data for January 2010 to December 2015 has been updated and may differ to any original publication due to data cleansing, re-categorising and re-grouping.
6. Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Serious further offences are incredibly rare, with fewer than 0.5% of offenders supervised by the Probation Service going on to commit serious further offences but each one is investigated fully so we can take action where necessary. We have also injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year into the Probation Service to deliver tougher supervision, reduce caseloads and recruit thousands more staff to keep the public safer.
Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce reoffending rates.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The overall proven reoffending rate has decreased significantly.
We are taking action to drive this down further by ensuring prisoners leavers have access to employment and accommodation.
For instance, we have rolled out Prison Employment Leads to match candidates to jobs and appointed business leader chairs to our Employment Advisory Boards.
We have also begun delivering our temporary accommodation service, so prison-leavers have a stable base on release.
Asked by: Matt Vickers (Conservative - Stockton South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to allocate sufficient resources to the prevention of repeat offences.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
This Government is tackling the causes of reoffending to keep our communities safe. Between 2010/11 and 2020/21, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.6% to 24.4%.
We know that by helping offenders into skills training, work, and stable accommodation we can significantly reduce their likelihood of reoffending. Over the 3-year Spending Review, we are therefore investing in a range of interventions, including delivering our temporary accommodation service so that prison-leavers have a stable base on release, building stronger links with employers and offering more offenders the chance to work in prison and on release.
We are also delivering probation Commissioned Rehabilitative Services which provide offenders with tailored, community-based support to address areas of need associated with reoffending.
Jul. 27 2023
Source Page: Proven reoffending statistics: July to September 2021Found: data in the tables are presented in the following ways: • Number of offenders • Number of proven reoffenders
Jan. 26 2023
Source Page: Proven reoffending statistics: January to March 2021Found: of reoffences 161864 140420 109771 85640 76621 69319 61269 53591 44140 34779 25830 17635 Number of reoffenders
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a second life sentence after being released from prison in each year since 2010; and if he will list the offences which resulted in the (a) first and (b) second life sentence for each person.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The answer to this question could only be provided at a disproportionate cost, as it involves linking prison data with the Ministry of Justice extract of the police national computer.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and which offences were committed by people on a suspended sentence order in each of the last three years.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The below detail is provided as background information.
A 2019 Ministry of Justice analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts.
Our latest quarterly statistics, January – March 2022, suggest that 55.5% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months reoffend within one year. For offenders punished with suspended sentence orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24.2%.
Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. The courts will retain a wide discretion to impose immediate custody in many circumstances.
Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving (a) one life sentence, (b) two life sentences and (c) more than two life sentences were released from prison into the community in each year since 2015.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
To determine the number of active life sentences at the point when an offender is released would require manually reading the record files of offenders with multiple life sentences and then linking these together from the different data systems which would incur disproportionate costs.