§ 25. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of persons over any recent convenient period in Great Britain convicted of crime were so convicted a second and a third time.
§ Mr. EdeThe last occasion on which the criminal records were analysed for the purpose of obtaining statistics as to reconviction rates was in 1938; and I am sending to my hon. and learned Friend extracts from the volume of the Criminal Statistics which contains the results of that analysis.
§ Mr. HughesWould the Minister state what special steps are taken to prevent young offenders in the first class from falling into the other two classes?
§ Mr. EdeI do not think I could detail them in answer to a question. Doubtless on the Estimates or on some other suitable occasion I shall be able to deal with the matter.