Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 10802
Criminal Records
Tabled: 23 October 2024
Answered: 31 October 2024
Question
Dr Kieran Mullan
Conservative — Bexhill 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 DakinThe 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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