Written questions

Reoffenders: Prisons

Commons · Question 21740 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 13 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Josh Babarinde

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders perpetrated further crimes in prison in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, and (c) 2024.

Answer

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 13 Jan 2025

Data relating to crimes committed in prison are held in HMPPS’s police referral and adjudications records. To be able to identify all such cases, it would be necessary to review all potentially relevant records, and this could not be done without incurrin...