To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many of those convicted of (a) a criminal offence and (b) an offence of a sexual nature went on to re-offend in each of the last five years, broken down into risk management categories A, B and C. (113484)

The latest available reconviction figures cover the two year period subsequent to 2002. Reconviction figures for sexual offenders relate to any criminal reconviction and not necessarily reconviction for a sexual offence. Information on risk management categories is not held centrally on the reconviction database and therefore it is not possible to break down this information further.

Table 1 provides information on those convicted of (a) any criminal offence and (b) an offence of a sexual nature who were either discharged from custody or given a community based disposal in 2002 and who were reconvicted within the subsequent two year period.