§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has about re-offending rates for(a) men and (b) women who have served a prison sentence; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. JackInformation on reconviction rates of those who have served a prison sentence is published regularly. The latest figures can be found in chapter 9 of "Prison Statistics England and Wales 1989", Cm 1221. Of those discharged in 1986, 63 per cent. of male young offenders, 42 per cent. of adult males and 34 per cent. of adult females were convicted of a further standard list offence within two years of release.