Justice written question – answered at on 13 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 6 February 2013, Official Report, column 325W, on young offenders: Greater London, what proportion of young offenders leaving custody in each London borough reoffended within 12 months from their release in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12; what the total figure was for 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.
Proven re-offending rates (i.e. the proportion of offenders who re-offend) based on a small number of offenders are difficult to interpret and can lead to misleading conclusions when comparing rates of different groups. Following discussions with the UK Statistics Authority while developing the proven re-offending statistics in 2011, Ministry of Justice statisticians agreed not to produce proven re-offending rates for groups based on less than 30 offenders.
For this reason we do not produce proven re-offending rates for juveniles leaving custody in each London borough; all would be based on fewer than 30 offenders per year.
Re-offending rates for 2011-12 are not yet available. This is because we allow a one year follow up period for re-offending to occur, and a further six month waiting period for offences to be processed by the courts. Re-offending rates for the year ending March 2012 will be published in the Proven Re-offending Statistics Quarterly Bulletin in January 2014.
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