Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rates for (a) short-term and (b) long-term prisoners were in each of the last three years.

The most recent published data on reoffending rates is for the period commencing July 2014 to July 2015.The information requested is available via the following link:

• Link to the proven reoffending statistics quarterly main page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics
• Link to proven reoffending tables, July 2014 to June 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/611003/proven-reoffending-jul14-jun15.xlsx