Justice written question – answered at on 3 March 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the rate of re-offending after two years following completion of a (a) a probation or supervision order, (b) a probation or supervision order with conditions and (c) unpaid work in each probation area in Wales.
The requested data are not available. National reoffending data are based on offences committed within one year of offenders' release from custody or commencement of a court order under probation supervision, and cover England and Wales as a whole.
In addition to the national statistics on reoffending, the Ministry of Justice publishes local reoffending data for all offenders on the probation caseload. These data are available at the probation area level. These data measure the reoffending of all offenders under probation supervision over a period of three months. The results are produced by aggregating four quarters of data. Therefore the number of offenders quoted in the following table is approximately four times the number of offenders on the caseload at any one time.
The most recent reoffending rates for offenders on court orders under probation supervision for probation areas in Wales are shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Local reoffending rates for probation areas in Wales, 1 October2008 to 30 September 2009 | ||
Probation area | Number of offenders | Proportion of offenders that reoffended within three months |
Dyfed-Powys | 4,106 | 11.15 |
Gwent | 7,091 | 10.68 |
North Wales | 7,730 | 10.71 |
South Wales | 17,140 | 11.00 |
A breakdown by requirement type is not available.
Further information on the reoffending of adult offenders on the probation caseload is available at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/local-adult-reoffending.htm
Further information on the National Statistics on adult reoffending is available at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm
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