Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the ethnicity of offenders convicted of theft in each of the last 12 months.

The Ministry of Justice holds data on the ethnicity of offenders convicted of theft offences covering the period requested and these are published and can be viewed in Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023.

The tool allows users to select offences (in this case Offence ’04: Theft offences’). Yearly totals can be broken down by quarter using the Quarter variable.

The ethnicity of the offenders can be found by using either the Ethnicity or Detailed Ethnicity filter. Furthermore, the number of convictions by ethnicity can be seen by dragging the Ethnicity or Detailed Ethnicity from Filters to Rows in the PivotTable Fields.