§ Lord Dholakiaasked Her Majesty's Government:
Of those convicted of racially motivated offences who are either on probation or in custody, how many are on behavioural programmes run by the Probation Service, youth offending teams or others designed to change racist offending behaviour. [HL606]
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Falconer of Thoroton)Figures for the number of offenders convicted of racially motivated offences who are attending accredited offending behaviour programmes are not currently recorded. The roll-out of OASys (the new joint prison-probation offender assessment system) and the reporting facility for the programmes database will enable more detailed information to be obtained. This will give the prison and probation services the ability to report on offenders on accredited programmes by offence type.