To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders sentenced for violence against the person, sexual offences or robbery in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available had previous convictions for any of those types of offence. (206504)

The requested information is not available. The published statistics on the previous criminal history of offenders do not include information on the types of previous offences. However, we are currently reviewing our criminal history statistics and aim to publish information of this kind towards the end of 2008.