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1136642

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each Police Force Area were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody who had (a) 26 to 50 previous convictions, (b) 51 to 75 previous convictions, (c) 76 to 100 previous convictions and (d) over 100 previous convictions in each year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	272944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the tables attached with this answer. These tables include data, covering the period 2007 – 2018, on:</p><ul><li>The number of offenders in each Police Force Area with a specified number of previous convictions who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody.</li><li>The number of offenders in each Police Force area with a specified number of previous convictions and cautions who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We know that some prolific offending can be driven by a variety of factors, including drug addiction and poor mental health. The Ministry of Justice has also published experimental statistics at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756282/prolific-offenders-experimental-statistics.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756282/prolific-offenders-experimental-statistics.pdf</a> which show that theft and summary non-motoring offences are the offences most likely to have been committed by prolific offenders.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2019 16:03:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name PQs 272944 and 272945 response tables.xlsx title Table for PQ 272944
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1136643

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each Police Force area who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody had (a) 26 to 50 previous convictions or cautions, (b) 51 to 75 previous convictions or cautions, (c) 76 to 100 previous convictions or cautions and (d) over 100 previous convictions or cautions, in each year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	272945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the tables attached with this answer. These tables include data, covering the period 2007 – 2018, on:</p><ul><li>The number of offenders in each Police Force Area with a specified number of previous convictions who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody.</li><li>The number of offenders in each Police Force area with a specified number of previous convictions and cautions who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We know that some prolific offending can be driven by a variety of factors, including drug addiction and poor mental health. The Ministry of Justice has also published experimental statistics at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756282/prolific-offenders-experimental-statistics.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756282/prolific-offenders-experimental-statistics.pdf</a> which show that theft and summary non-motoring offences are the offences most likely to have been committed by prolific offenders.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2019 16:03:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name PQs 272944 and 272945 response tables.xlsx title Table for 272945
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1136349

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of exposure to prison violence on re-offending rates.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	272278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>We know that the evidence suggests that if prisoners feel safe and supported they are more likely to have the time and headspace to take positive steps to address the causes of their offending. In addition, we know that access to rehabilitative services such as purposeful activity is an important protective factor for preventing violence and self-harm.</p><p> </p><p>This is why are taking urgent action to improve prison safety and security, alongside reforms to overhaul the system to focus on the rehabilitation of offenders. We are tackling the supply and demand of drugs, drones and phones, which drive prison violence and undermine safety.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2019 15:46:38 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132506

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May to Question 246971 on Reoffenders: Community Orders, if he will publish the offences included under the Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society category.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	265471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The offences included under the Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society category committed by adult offenders who started a community order in the calendar year 2016, in England and Wales, can be found in the attached response table.</p><p>At present, we do not intend to routinely produce such statistics as we have yet to identify sufficient user need to justify the costs involved.</p><p>Details of the offence classifications used by the Ministry of Justice can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802050/offence_group_classification2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802050/offence_group_classification2018.xlsx</a></p><p>MoJ groups indictable offences based on the counting rules for recorded crime published by the Home Office which can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/791105/count-notifiable-offences-apr-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/791105/count-notifiable-offences-apr-2019.xlsx</a></p><p>The detail around crime recording general rules can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/801406/count-general-may-2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/801406/count-general-may-2019.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/06/2019 16:57:32 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1131702

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of (a) community orders, (b) suspended sentences and (c) previous custodial sentences given to an offender sentenced to immediate custody was in each year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	263846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Data on the average number of previous specified sentences received by offenders who were sentenced to immediate custody, covering the period 2007 – 2018, can be viewed in the table.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/06/2019 16:57:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name 263846 Response Table.xlsx title 263846 Response Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1129829

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of former prisoners who (a) attended and (b) did not attend education programmes in prison reoffended after release in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	259893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>We set out our intentions to reform prison education in the Education and Employment Strategy, published in May last year. Our new education programme, designed to improve the quality of prison education and give prisoners a better chance of gaining employment on release, commenced on 1 April. Prison governors are responsible for education provision in their prisons. They control the education budget, decide the curriculum, and have helped to choose the main providers. In addition, our prison education Dynamic Purchasing System allows governors to commission specific, short-term education provision to meet specialised learning needs of individual prisoners, and to commission training to address employers’ particular requirements. This will help prisoners to take full advantage of employment opportunities on release. The new contracts, and increased local and national management of the education providers, will provide better and more immediate information on the quality of the service being delivered and provide a better mechanism for governors to manage performance. We do not hold data on re-offending outcomes in relation to education engagement in the form requested, and could not obtain it without incurring disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 259892 question first answered 12/06/2019 16:47:34 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1128987

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rates were of prisoners supervised by the National Probation Service in each year since 2015 for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	259133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is included as part of quarterly re-offending statistics, and can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payment-by-results-statistics</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/06/2019 15:00:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1123619

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of reoffending.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	248731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>A reduction in reoffending rates can only be achieved by a concerted effort across government on the drivers of reoffending such as homelessness, unemployment, addiction, health, care and social exclusion. This is why the MoJ is working with other departments to tackle the main causes of reoffending. We are committed to tackling reoffending by investing in community provision, strengthening alternatives to short custodial sentences and boosting rehabilitation, so that it keeps the public safe and ultimately reforms and rehabilitates offenders.</p><p>The current estimate of the economic and social cost of reoffending is approximately £15bn per annum, including the cost to victims, and the cost to the Government of detecting, prosecuting, and punishing the crime. This was based on a report published by the National Audit Office (NAO), which estimated in 2007/08 that reoffending by recent ex-prisoners cost between £9.5billion and £13billion; this report can be found here:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/0910431.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/0910431.pdf</a></p><p>This estimate was calculated by taking the figure of £13bn and increasing it by inflation, to bring it into present-day costs at the time of calculation (2016/17). This was done by applying GDP deflators in line with standard Green Book guidance. <br></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/05/2019 16:12:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1122851

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April to Question 239207 on Reoffenders: Community Orders, how many offences of each type were committed by those offenders.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	246971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of reoffences for each reoffence type committed by offenders who had started a community order in January to December 2016 and reoffended can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>The time period covered is the calendar year rather than the financial year as was previously provided in response to Question 239207.</p><p> </p><p>There is persuasive evidence showing community sentences, in certain circumstances, are more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing reoffending. The MoJ study ‘The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on re-offending’ published in 2015 involved around 350,000 sentencing occasions over 4 years and used 130 different variables to construct matched groups of offenders and examine the effect of short sentences relative to community sentences. This study found a reduction of around 3 percentage points in proven reoffences if offenders receiving sentences of less than 12 months were to get a community order instead. This is statistically significant and equates to around 30,000 proven reoffences in total over a one-year period. This means fewer victims of crime.</p><p> </p><p>Unless we tackle the underlying causes of offending, we cannot protect the public from being victims of crime. Effective community orders can address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, and provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/05/2019 17:06:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 246971 table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1122320

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to reduce reoffending rates for violent crimes.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	910450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Reoffending is costing society approximately £15bn per year. It is only through a concerted effort across Government that we will be able to reduce reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we set up the Reducing Reoffending Board to identify how the Government can work more collaboratively in addressing the drivers of reoffending, and to consider innovative ways of addressing these drivers.</p><p> </p><p>We are looking particularly closely at what we can do to strengthen probation, which is responsible for managing and supporting offenders in the community to turn away from crime. I want to see a wider range of rehabilitative programmes on offer, so that offenders can be directed towards programmes that are targeted to their behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>For instance, we have found that our general offending behaviour programme can reduce violent reoffending by 17 percentage points.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2019 16:42:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss