Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people arrested for violent offences in each of the last 10 years have previously served a prison term.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests made by each police force in England and Wales for violence against the person offences.

Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019

Data on the number of people arrested for violent offences that have previously served a prison term is not included in this collection.