Justice written question – answered at on 16 January 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) what the reoffending rate was amongst people who are (a) White British, (b) Black Caribbean, (c) Black African, (d) Pakistani origin, (e) Indian origin, (f) Bangladeshi origin and (g) other in each year from 1 April 1997 to 1 April 2012;
(2) what the 12-month reoffending rates for each probation trust in England and Wales were in each year since the introduction of the trusts.
These questions have been answered using the Ministry of Justice's published proven reoffending statistics for England and Wales. These statistics are published on a quarterly basis and the latest bulletin, for the period January to December 2010, was published on
Table 1 shows the one year proven reoffending rates in each year from 2000, 2002-2010, by ethnic group as recorded on the Police National Computer (PNC). Ethnicity data recorded on the PNC reflect the officer's view of the offender's ethnicity, and cannot be provided exactly as requested in the question. 2000 is the earliest year for which proven reoffending data exist on a comparable basis and data are not available for 2001 due to a problem with archived data on court orders. Data for 2011 will be published on
Table 2 shows the number of adult offenders in England and Wales starting a court order, by probation trust, in each year from 2008 to 2010; and the proportion that committed a proven re-offence within a one-year follow-up period (i.e. the one year proven reoffending rate).
The first six probation trusts were established from
A proven re-offence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period and receiving a court conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in the one-year follow-up. Following this one-year period, a further six-month waiting period is allowed for cases to progress through the courts.
Please note that proven reoffending statistics are available from the Ministry of Justice website at:
www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/reoffending/proven-re-offending
Table 1: Adult and juvenile proven reoffending data, by ethnicity, 2000, 2002 to 2010(1) | ||||||||||
Ethnicity | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
White | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 28.8 | 29.8 | 29.4 | 28.2 | 27.8 | 27.7 | 27.4 | 27.6 | 26.9 | 27.4 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 532,421 | 535,312 | 554,121 | 555,395 | 578,147 | 610,632 | 633,736 | 609,851 | 576,462 | 533,994 |
Black | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 32.0 | 32.3 | 31.7 | 31.2 | 31.6 | 31.2 | 30.9 | 30.1 | 29.3 | 29.8 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 35,920 | 43,377 | 47,027 | 47,835 | 50,658 | 55,652 | 58,866 | 60,270 | 58,557 | 55,377 |
Asian | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 22.3 | 24.3 | 23.1 | 22.2 | 22.8 | 22.7 | 22.4 | 21.8 | 21.5 | 21.4 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 23,357 | 27,526 | 29,053 | 29,298 | 31,645 | 34,898 | 36,887 | 38,289 | 37,260 | 35,669 |
Other | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 20.0 | 20.3 | 19.9 | 19.5 | 20.5 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 18.7 | 18.4 | 18.2 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 3,745 | 4,822 | 5,988 | 6,522 | 7,109 | 7,399 | 7,442 | 8,074 | 8,312 | 8,217 |
Not recorded | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 6.5 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 9.0 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 21,581 | 21,028 | 22,850 | 23,002 | 28,031 | 33,938 | 29,543 | 19,043 | 16,771 | 15,565 |
All offenders | ||||||||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 27.9 | 28.9 | 28.4 | 27.3 | 27.0 | 26.7 | 26.5 | 26.9 | 26.3 | 26.7 |
Number of offenders in cohort(2) | 617,024 | 632,065 | 659,039 | 662,052 | 695,590 | 742,519 | 766,474 | 735,527 | 697,362 | 648,822 |
(1) Data are not available for 2001 due to a problem with archived data. (2) This does not represent all offenders—offenders who were released from custody or commenced a court order are matched to the police national computer database and a certain proportion of these offenders that cannot be matched are excluded from the offender cohort. |
Table 2: Adult proven reoffending data, by probation trust based on first commencement from each trust, 2008-10 | ||||||
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | ||||
Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | Number of offenders in cohort(1) | Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | Number of offenders in cohort(1) | Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | Number of offenders in cohort(1) | |
Avon and Somerset | 36.7 | 3,037 | 35.2 | 3,330 | 34.7 | 3,431 |
Bedfordshire | 29.4 | 1,347 | 28.2 | 1,414 | 28.4 | 1,392 |
Cambridgeshire | 35.8 | 1,910 | 35.4 | 1,832 | 35.1 | 1,974 |
Cheshire | 32.0 | 2,663 | 31.0 | 2,722 | 30.3 | 2,633 |
Cumbria | 39.0 | 1,617 | 36.5 | 1,432 | 35.4 | 1,437 |
Derbyshire | 29.7 | 2,888 | 28.6 | 2,815 | 29.1 | 2,634 |
Devon and Cornwall | 34.8 | 2,645 | 33.8 | 2,666 | 33.4 | 2,580 |
Dorset | 32.7 | 1,430 | 34.5 | 1,428 | 31.8 | 1,329 |
Durham and Tees Valley | 42.9 | 4,675 | 41.8 | 4,722 | 44.7 | 4,640 |
Essex | 33.0 | 3,759 | 31.3 | 4,070 | 32.7 | 3,922 |
Gloucestershire | 42.1 | 1,261 | 38.3 | 1,209 | 32.1 | 1,101 |
Greater Manchester | 34.8 | 9,240 | 33.8 | 9,458 | 33.4 | 9,993 |
Hampshire | 34.8 | 4,680 | 34.7 | 4,428 | 34.6 | 4,693 |
Hertfordshire | 33.9 | 2,282 | 34.0 | 2,256 | 32.3 | 2,364 |
Humberside | 37.7 | 2,807 | 36.9 | 2,895 | 33.6 | 2,930 |
Kent | 34.0 | 3,671 | 33.7 | 3,843 | 33.4 | 3,756 |
Lancashire | 38.6 | 4,826 | 38.9 | 4,866 | 39.0 | 5,007 |
Leicestershire | 29.7 | 2,621 | 29.8 | 2,434 | 30.8 | 2,426 |
Lincolnshire | 37.1 | 1,446 | 32.1 | 1,412 | 33.9 | 1,444 |
London | 34.9 | 18,454 | 34.0 | 19,480 | 33.4 | 18,769 |
Merseyside | 35.9 | 4,819 | 34.8 | 4,700 | 35.3 | 4,463 |
Norfolk and Suffolk | 36.1 | 3,248 | 36.1 | 3,321 | 35.4 | 3,260 |
North Yorkshire | 39.4 | 1,752 | 35.6 | 1,951 | 37.9 | 1,816 |
Northamptonshire | 33.6 | 1,619 | 30.7 | 1,603 | 29.2 | 1,742 |
Northumbria | 46.0 | 4,748 | 43.7 | 4,987 | 43.7 | 4,711 |
Nottinghamshire | 36.3 | 3,531 | 36.0 | 3,578 | 36.2 | 3,679 |
South Yorkshire | 36.6 | 4,453 | 34.9 | 4,601 | 35.4 | 4,548 |
Staffordshire and West Midlands | 34.3 | 11,458 | 30.3 | 11,878 | 29.2 | 11,101 |
Surrey and Sussex | 32.3 | 4,814 | 32.9 | 5,034 | 31.6 | 4,857 |
Thames Valley | 35.1 | 4,086 | 33.8 | 3,722 | 32.9 | 3,984 |
Wales | 36.8 | 9,361 | 37.0 | 9,594 | 35.9 | 9,666 |
Warwickshire | 35.4 | 1,054 | 30.2 | 1,201 | 26.6 | 1,071 |
West Mercia | 36.7 | 2,403 | 34.0 | 2,641 | 36.7 | 2,390 |
West Yorkshire | 38.3 | 6,966 | 35.0 | 7,604 | 34.8 | 7,767 |
Wiltshire | 34.4 | 1,140 | 34.2 | 1,142 | 33.3 | 1,123 |
Unknown/More than one | 34.0 | 1,531 | 34.6 | 1,652 | 31.5 | 1,349 |
(1)This does not represent all offenders—offenders who commenced a court order are matched to the police national computer database and a certain proportion of these offenders that cannot be matched are excluded from the offender cohort. |
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