Offenders: Employment
Commons · Question 64403 · Tabled 2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Sir Andrew Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) male and (b) female ex-offenders found employment within six months of release in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 9 Jul 2025
The latest data available (April 2023-March 2024) shows that 13.0% of females and 21.8% of males in the West Midlands region were employed six months after release from custody, a gap of 8.8 percentage points. This represents 30 females and 715 males from...