§ Mr. ButcherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders convicted of grievous wounding have committed the same offence after serving a prison sentence for the first conviction on that offence since 1985.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerInformation is not available in the form requested. However, it has been estimated that of some 5,800 adult males discharged in 1986 from serving a prison sentence for a conviction of violence against the person, some 2,520 (44 per cent.) were reconvicted of a standard list offence within two years of release; for some 670 the first such conviction was for an offence of violence against the person: that is, approximately 12 per cent. of the 5,800. More information on the reconvictions of persons released from prison service establishments can be found in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales", a copy of which is in the Library.