To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) violent offences and (b) other offences have been committed by individuals released from secure hospitals under the Government's care in the community programme; and if he will make a statement. [39890]
The figures shown in the table include restricted patients discharged from national health service and independent hospitals. Separate figures are not kept on patients discharged from secure hospitals and data on unrestricted patients is not available.
| Table showing reconviction of restricted patients | |||||
| Year | Total discharged for first time | Reconvicted for grave offences1 within | Reconvictions within 5 years—standard list offences2 | ||
| 2 years | 5 years3 | 2 years | 5 years3 | ||
| 1984 | 148 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 34 |
| 1985 | 134 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 20 |
| 1986 | 42 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 27 |
| 1987 | 87 | — | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 1988 | 94 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 1989 | 138 | — | — | 8 | 12 |
| 1990 | 100 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 1991 | 90 | — | — | 4 | — |
| 1992 | 147 | 1 | — | 6 | — |
| 1993 | 130 | 1 | — | 6 | — |
| Total | 1,160 | 12 | — | 84 | — |
Notes:
1 Offences for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment, mainly homicide, serious wounding, rape, buggery, aggravated burglary, arson where life is not endangered.
2 All indictable offences and certain summary offences.
3 After 1990, data no longer held in this form.
Source:
Home Office Statistical Bulletin, Statistics of Mentally Disordered Offenders England and Wales 1995.