§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people(a) were released on bail in (i) 1990, (ii) 1991 and (iii) 1992, (b) reoffended on bail and (c) were bailed again by the courts.
§ Mr. MacleanThe estimated number of persons remanded on bail at magistrates courts in England and Wales is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales". Table 8.5 shows that 441,900 people were remanded in 1990: 452,500 in 1991 and 458,700 in 1992. Information on numbers offending while on bail and on those bailed again is not collected centrally.
A Home Office research report—RPU report 65 "Offending while on bail; a survey of recent studies"—gives some information about recent studies relating to offences while on bail. The survey concludes that, on average, between 10 and 12 per cent. of defendants on bail are subsequently convicted of an offence committed on bail and nowhere was the figure more than 17 per cent. A copy of this report is available in the Library of the House.