§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the 48 offenders who have been sentenced to a curfew order and tagged after conviction for theft, how many were persistent shoplifters and how many were first offenders. [8631]
§ Mr. SackvilleInformation is not yet available about the previous convictions of offenders who have only recently been given curfew orders. In the first full year of the trials, nobody sentenced to a curfew order for theft was a first offender.
Central records do not allow shoplifting to be distinguished from other offences of theft. As a result, it is not possible to say how many of those receiving curfew orders have been persistent shoplifters.