Reoffenders: Convictions
(asked on 17th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offence notifications resulted in a conviction by each type of offence in each year since 2010.
The table below sets out the total number of notifications – that is, where an offender subject to probation supervision has been charged with a qualifying serious further offence (SFO) – which resulted in a conviction for an SFO, by SFO offence, for notifications submitted to NOMS/HMPPS between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2014.
The latest figures for 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2021 were published in October 2022 and can be accessed by the following link: Proven reoffending statistics: October to December 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Total SFO notifications | 473 | 466 | 489 | 507 |
Total SFO convictions [1] | 257 | 253 | 270 | 274 |
Murder | 50 | 67 | 51 | 59 |
Attempted murder/ Conspiracy to commit murder | 12 | 13 | 16 | 15 |
Manslaughter | 18 | 15 | 16 | 23 |
Attempted Rape/Rape /Assault by penetration including on a child under 13 | 101 | 77 | 93 | 80 |
Arson with intent to endanger life | 8 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
Kidnapping /Abduction/False imprisonment | 2 | 14 | 16 | 19 |
Death involving driving or vehicle taking | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
Other serious sexual/violent offences [2] | 58 | 53 | 66 | 60 |
1. Time period for conviction data relates to the date of SFO notification to HMPPS not the date of conviction.
2. “Other serious sexual/violent offences” refer to other serious violent or sexual offences which carry a maximum custodial penalty of more than 10 years.
3. The data only includes convictions for serious further offences that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.
4. The data provided are provisional subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.
5. Conviction data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where the judicial process concluded that they were responsible.
6. The data for April 2010 to March 2014 has been updated and may differ to the original publication due to data cleansing, re-categorising and re-grouping.
7. Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Serious further offences are incredibly rare, with fewer than 0.5% of offenders supervised by the Probation Service going on to commit serious further offences but each one is investigated fully so we can take action where necessary. We have also injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year into the Probation Service to deliver tougher supervision, reduce caseloads and recruit thousands more staff to keep the public safer.