§ Mr. Aspinwallasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons nationally have been convicted of further offences while on bail in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. BrittanThe information requested is not available. However, the Home Office has in hand a national analysis of the incidence of re-offending while on bail based on bail decisions made at magistrates' courts during the first year of operation of the Bail Act 1976, that is April 1978-April 1979.