§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the rates of recidivism for (a) males and (b) females discharged from custody in the most recent convenient year.
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§ Mr. HurdThe readily available information relates to males and females reconvicted within two years of discharge from prison department establishments and is published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (chapter 8 of the latest issue for 1982, Cmnd. 9027). The issue for 1983 will be published later in the year.