HL Deb 24 July 2001 vol 626 cc199-200WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish rates of reoffending after two years for young offender institutions in England and Wales. [HL469]

Lord Rooker

We collect reconviction rather than reoffending data. The latest available data are for those discharged from young offender institutions in 1996: 75 per cent were reconvicted for a standard list offence within two years of discharge. We do not produce figures for individual establishments; inmate transfers would make them meaningless.

Further details of available figures are given in Chapter 9 of the Command PaperPrison Statistics England and Wales 1999, available in the Library.