Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 49643

Reoffenders

Tabled: 30 April 2025
Answered: 9 May 2025

Question

Alex Easton

IndependentNorth Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a new approach to help tackle hyper prolific offending through (a) the monitoring of offenders, (b) effective intervention programmes and (c) t

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
We take prolific offending seriously and recognise that prolific offenders commit a disproportionate number of offences. Between 2000 and 2021, for example, prolific offenders represented nearly 10% of offenders but accounted for just over 50% of convicti...

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