Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 10802

Criminal Records

Tabled: 23 October 2024
Answered: 31 October 2024

Question

Dr Kieran Mullan

ConservativeBexhill and Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the guidance by her Department entitled Disclosing your criminal record, published on 28 October 2023, on what evidential basis the guidance says that one in four people of working age have a cr

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
The statistic that approximately one in four people have a criminal record is based on Home Office data on the Police National Computer compared with population data.An updated estimate of the number of individuals of working age (16-64 and 16+) with a no...

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