To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the re-offending rates of persons discharged from (a) young offender institutions, (b) secure training centres and (c) secure children's homes in each of the next 12 months. (274996)

The Government have a target to achieve a 10 per cent. reduction in the frequency rate of reoffending by 2011 against the 2005 baseline. We do not forecast on a monthly basis.

The latest National Statistics on reoffending shows that there has been a 16.2 per cent. fall in the frequency rate of reoffending of juveniles (both male and female) released from custody between 2000 and 2006. Overall the frequency rate of juvenile reoffending has fallen by 18.7 per cent. between 2000 and 2006.