§ Mr. Barnesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of people who, during the last year for which figures are available, were sentenced to a second or subsequent term of imprisonment; and if he will break the figures down by categories of crime both for the previous offence and the offence for which the person was sentenced in the year in question.
§ Mr. CarlisleIn 1971, 33,254 persons were received into custody in England and Wales to serve sentences of imprisonment without the option of a fine. 17,811 were known to have previously served sentences of imprisonment, including corrective training and preventive detention. In a further 2,863 cases, information about the offender's previous history was not available.
A detailed analysis relating the nature of the current offence to the number of previous sentences is given in Tables D1, D2, D11 and D12 of the Report on the 110W Work of the Prison Department, Statistical Tables, for 1971, Cmnd 5156. The information available does not include statistics of the nature of previous offences.