Prison Sentences
Justice
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average number of previous convictions is of prisoners given an indeterminate sentence for public protection.
Crispin Blunt (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Prisons and Probation), Justice; Reigate, Conservative)
The average number of previous convictions for offenders serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection in England and Wales at
These figures have been drawn from the police's administrative IT system, the police national computer, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the police.