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Prisoners

Answer

The table shows the number of males and females detained in all prison establishments in England and Wales¹ by offence group as at the end of June in each year since 1997.The figures for 1997-2007 can be found in table 7.2 of the recently published Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2007, a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library and at the following website:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonandprobation.htm"The figures for 2008 can be found in table 2 of the Population in Custody monthly brief for June 2008 which can be found at the following website:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm"These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

England and Wales 30 June
Number of persons
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005¹	2006¹	2007¹	2008¹
Male
Remand	11,518	12,168	11,837	10,764	10,288	12,083	12,001	11,544	11,863	12,165	11,953	12,566
Violence against the person	2,114	2,215	2,126	2,012	2,035	2,411	2,403	2,579	2,753	2,981	2,970	3,280
Sexual offences	625	754	695	581	489	587	556	616	762	886	775	911
Robbery	1,158	951	1,126	982	867	1,304	1,157	1,130	1,049	1,248	1,296	1,331
Burglary	2,382	2,202	2,366	1,882	1,634	1,914	1,850	1,451	1,437	1,342	1,374	1,455
Theft and handling	1,576	1,849	1,590	1,640	1,500	1,687	1,580	1,235	1,187	1,093	950	930
Fraud and forgery	202	177	185	146	167	191	207	267	463	415	453	398
Drug offences	1,296	1,617	1,564	1,430	1,320	1,360	1,374	1,310	1,627	1,407	1,647	1,708
Motoring offences	329	294	298	280	353	386	409	308	246	224	140	127
Other offences	1,321	1,586	1,372	1,362	1,187	1,397	1,463	1,604	1,687	1,868	1,667	1,765
Offence not recorded	515	523	515	448	736	846	1,002	1,044	652	703	681	661
Immediate custodial sentence	46,611	49,793	48,862	50,434	51,272	53,936	55,919	57,475	58,703	59,898	62,188	64,600
Violence against the person	10,033	10,524	10,429	10,807	11,301	11,674	12,480	13,371	14,541	15,537	16,929	18,204
Sexual offences	4,069	4,779	4,929	5,070	5,082	5,270	5,514	5,746	6,146	6,561	7,287	7,569
Robbery	6,277	6,449	6,174	6,158	6,534	7,208	7,879	8,056	8,035	8,100	8,437	8,437
Burglary	7,976	8,538	8,622	8,824	8,416	8,917	8,576	8,396	7,844	7,563	7,723	7,733
Theft and handling	3,929	4,097	4,021	4,537	4,347	4,278	4,157	3,988	3,716	3,691	3,332	3,373
Fraud and forgery	1,104	1,080	993	885	941	921	907	1,021	1,281	1,456	1,512	1,725
Drug offences	6,483	7,099	7,294	7,526	8,010	8,749	8,988	9,252	9,427	9,484	9,569	9,992
Motoring offences	1,887	1,898	1,913	2,291	2,417	2,223	2,630	2,364	2,124	1,887	1,453	1,356
Other offences	3,159	3,310	3,265	3,538	3,386	3,686	3,934	4,522	4,954	5,242	5,598	6,068
Offence not recorded	1,694	2,019	1,222	797	838	1,009	852	759	636	378	348	144
Female
Remand	587	735	752	669	773	998	1,072	951	1,001	902	891	874
Violence against the person	101	116	105	99	113	132	138	138	150	124	160	165
Sexual offences	4	7	7	7	3	3	4	7	4	11	9	6
Robbery	40	39	41	38	45	104	117	76	61	68	56	64
Burglary	32	42	53	56	68	86	101	75	74	54	49	67
Theft and handling	149	197	214	178	185	276	275	214	169	180	114	124
Fraud and forgery	22	25	21	19	17	24	33	39	96	68	69	79
Drug offences	124	166	168	152	187	174	171	188	203	163	196	144
Motoring offences	6	6	5	6	6	7	12	5	3	3	6	3
Other offences	87	112	127	97	107	122	161	152	167	149	145	138
Offence not recorded	22	25	11	17	43	70	59	56	74	83	87	84
Immediate custodial sentence	2,063	2,366	2,431	2,659	2,897	3,336	3,474	3,449	3,476	3,506	3,345	3,524
Violence against the person	391	420	429	410	443	538	506	603	638	678	687	775
Sexual offences	8	16	17	20	25	23	26	27	38	37	48	47
Robbery	161	177	157	195	250	314	407	392	343	315	311	295
Burglary	101	118	158	158	154	239	240	247	238	228	197	203
Theft and handling	334	395	390	507	452	461	494	416	410	435	374	462
Fraud and forgery	121	119	111	131	130	119	115	126	173	236	227	295
Drug offences	691	794	875	947	1,137	1,317	1,342	1,235	1,234	1,163	1,044	990
Motoring offences	28	26	21	37	44	36	59	39	39	33	31	22
Other offences	162	191	199	185	200	225	251	320	335	352	392	418
Offence not recorded	66	110	74	69	61	63	35	45	29	30	35	16
¹ Comparisons by offence group with previous years figures should be made with caution due to further quality assurance of the data introduced for June 2005 onwards. The major difference is in the reduction of the 'offence not recorded' category of the remand population.

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Reference

485 c96-100W; 241285

Session

2008-09

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