Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the effectiveness of the content on domestic abuse in the Children and Family Court Advisory Service's separated parents information programme guidance.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Separated Parents Information Programme (SPIP) is a course for separated parents that helps them to understand how to put their children first, even though they may be in dispute with one another. SPIPs are aimed at parents where there are no safeguarding concerns and are not designed to provide comprehensive advice on domestic abuse. The SPIP content is reviewed regularly, and is currently under review.
All Cafcass practitioners are social workers with at least three years’ post qualifying experience, and all social work staff joining Cafcass receive specialist training on domestic abuse. Cafcass has developed a Domestic Abuse Practice Pathway and recently launched a Child Impact Assessment Framework (CIAF) to provide its practitioners with additional tools to assess the impact of domestic abuse and inform its recommendations to the court about child arrangements. Cafcass keeps both tools under review.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sex offenders convicted in each of the last five years were sentenced to a (a) non-custodial sentence, (b) custodial sentence of less than six months, (c) custodial sentence of 6-12 months, (d) custodial sentence of one-five years, (e) a custodial sentence of 5-10 years and (f) a custodial sentence of more than 10 years by sexual offence type.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Data on the number of offenders sentenced to custody for sexual offences, broken down by offence and length of sentence, is available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at: https://www.gov.uk/Government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017
To obtain the requested data, carry out the following steps:
Remove the ‘Values’ field from Rows
Select 2013 to 2017 in the ‘Year’ field
Filter ‘Offence group’ to ‘02: Sexual offences’
Drag the ‘Offence’ field into Rows
Drag all the ‘Custody’ fields into Values (this can also be done by ticking the boxes for each field and ensuring the ‘Values’ field this creates is in Rows)
For each requested sentence length period, combine the values of the relevant custodial sentence lengths
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders were found guilty of further sexual offences in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Table 1: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year Ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 365 |
2015 | 394 |
2016 | 465 |
2017 | 413 |
2018 | 389 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 709 |
2015 | 769 |
2016 | 852 |
2017 | 811 |
2018 | 801 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people on the sex offenders register have been subsequently convicted of further sexual offences by category of offence in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Table 1: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year Ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 365 |
2015 | 394 |
2016 | 465 |
2017 | 413 |
2018 | 389 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 709 |
2015 | 769 |
2016 | 852 |
2017 | 811 |
2018 | 801 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders who did not receive a custodial sentence for their first sex offence were subsequently convicted of further sexual offences in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Table 1: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year Ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 365 |
2015 | 394 |
2016 | 465 |
2017 | 413 |
2018 | 389 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.
Year ending June | Number of offenders |
2014 | 709 |
2015 | 769 |
2016 | 852 |
2017 | 811 |
2018 | 801 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released on licence have been found in breach of their licence conditions and (a) recalled to custody and (b) not recalled to custody in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
(a) The number of recalls to custody following breach of licence in each of the last five years1:
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
17330 | 17657 | 21467 | 21559 | 21914 |
1 The figures provided are for women and men recalled in each full year from 2013 to 2017 and may include offenders recalled more than once across multiple years or within years. The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
The last full year available is 2017. Published statistics, including figures up to and including June 2018 are available here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
(b) We do not hold information centrally about the number of offenders in the community who may have breached their licence conditions and are not recalled to custody. To extract this data would require a review of each separate case file to track their progress on licence.
Public protection is our priority and recall is used to ensure that offenders on licence who present a high risk of harm to the public or are at risk of re-offending are returned to custody as quickly as possible.
Offenders on licence are subject to strict licence conditions, which are designed to enable the Probation Service to manage the risk that offenders may pose on release from prison and to safeguard public protection. All offenders on licensed supervision in the community are liable to recall to prison if they fail to comply with the conditions of their licence.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number was of offences committed by a prolific offender before their first custodial sentence.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The average number of cautions and non-custodial convictions received by a prolific offender before their first immediate custodial sentence is five.
The definition of a prolific offender can be found here : https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/681553/prolific-offenders-15-feb-2017.pdf )
The response to this PQ was published in paper which can be found at the following link:
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation orders were issued for each offence type by (a) magistrate's courts and (b) crown courts in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The number of compensation orders issued and the amount ordered to pay, broken down by offence type and court type over the last decade is in the public domain. The information can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017.
The relevant data tools accessible through this link are: Magistrates Court data tool; and Crown Court data tool.
In the relevant data tool (Magistrates’ or Crown), select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Compensation – All’ row.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of (a) ten or more and (b) one hundred or more offences in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Number of offenders1 convicted by number of previous convictions, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014
Year ending June | Number of offenders with 10 or more previous convictions | Number of offenders with 100 or more previous convictions |
2014 | 101,320 | 307 |
2015 | 98,298 | 345 |
2016 | 94,125 | 371 |
2017 | 88,610 | 375 |
2018 | 82,860 | 368 |
Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer
Notes:
1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.
2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average value of Compensation Orders issues in the last five years by offence type in the (i) Magistrates' and (ii) Crown Courts.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The number of compensation orders issued and the amount ordered to pay, broken down by offence type and court type over the last decade is in the public domain. The information can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017.
The relevant data tools are: Magistrates Court data tool; and Crown Court data tool.
In the relevant data tool (Magistrates’ or Crown), select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Compensation – All’ row.
For the average compensation, again select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Average Compensation (£)’ row.
Similarly, you can observe the number of lowest value compensation orders (£0-£25) and highest value orders (£1000 +) in the rows below in the table.