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Ministry of Justice · Proven reoffending statistics quarterly

Adult proven reoffending rate

2024 Q3 Final

29.7%

Adult proven reoffending rate was 29.7% in 2024 Q3, up 1.9 percentage points from 27.8% in 2023 Q3.

▲ +1.9 percentage points against 2023 Q3 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Ministry of Justice percentage
  2. 2024 Q3
  3. published 30 July 2026
  4. Table A1
  5. row “Adult offenders / Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%)”
  6. column “Jul - Sep 2024”
  7. cell value 29.7303112896285

The series is rising. Rule: up 7.0% from 2023 Q3 to 2024 Q3.

2013 Q2 to 2024 Q3

Adult proven reoffending rate: 2013 Q2 to 2024 Q3CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0%10%20%30%201420162018202020222024Before: Reoffending measured from the earlier data sources. After: Reoffending measured from different data sources, from the October to December 2015 cohort.methodology change2013 Q2: 30.6% percent · published 30 July 20262013 Q3: 30.4% percent · published 30 July 20262013 Q4: 29.5% percent · published 30 July 20262014 Q1: 29.4% percent · published 30 July 20262014 Q2: 29.4% percent · published 30 July 20262014 Q3: 29.2% percent · published 30 July 20262014 Q4: 28.8% percent · published 30 July 20262015 Q1: 28.2% percent · published 30 July 20262015 Q2: 28.5% percent · published 30 July 20262015 Q3: 28.2% percent · published 30 July 20262015 Q4: 28.7% percent · published 30 July 20262016 Q1: 28.7% percent · published 30 July 20262016 Q2: 28.5% percent · published 30 July 20262016 Q3: 28.6% percent · published 30 July 20262016 Q4: 28.6% percent · published 30 July 20262017 Q1: 28.4% percent · published 30 July 20262017 Q2: 29.2% percent · published 30 July 20262017 Q3: 28.7% percent · published 30 July 20262017 Q4: 28.1% percent · published 30 July 20262018 Q1: 28% percent · published 30 July 20262018 Q2: 28.2% percent · published 30 July 20262018 Q3: 27.9% percent · published 30 July 20262018 Q4: 27.5% percent · published 30 July 20262019 Q1: 26.1% percent · published 30 July 20262019 Q2: 25.8% percent · published 30 July 20262019 Q3: 25.6% percent · published 30 July 20262019 Q4: 24.7% percent · published 30 July 20262020 Q1: 24.1% percent · published 30 July 20262020 Q2: 28.8% percent · published 30 July 20262020 Q3: 23% percent · published 30 July 20262020 Q4: 22.7% percent · published 30 July 20262021 Q1: 24% percent · published 30 July 20262021 Q2: 24.4% percent · published 30 July 20262021 Q3: 25% percent · published 30 July 20262021 Q4: 25.1% percent · published 30 July 20262022 Q1: 25.1% percent · published 30 July 20262022 Q2: 25.4% percent · published 30 July 20262022 Q3: 26.2% percent · published 30 July 20262022 Q4: 26.1% percent · published 30 July 20262023 Q1: 26.2% percent · published 30 July 20262023 Q2: 27.3% percent · published 30 July 20262023 Q3: 27.8% percent · published 30 July 20262023 Q4: 28.2% percent · published 30 July 20262024 Q1: 28.8% percent · published 30 July 20262024 Q2: 29.5% percent · published 30 July 20262024 Q3: 29.7% percent · published 30 July 2026
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Breakdowns

What this measures

The percentage of adult offenders in England and Wales in the quarterly cohort who committed a proven reoffence within one year.

What this doesn’t measure

Child offenders, unproven offending, or reoffending after the one-year window.

Important caveat

A proven reoffence is an offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that led to a court conviction or caution in that year or in a further six months. The cohort is offenders released from custody, given a non-custodial court disposal or cautioned in the quarter; offenders who could not be matched to the Police National Computer are excluded, so cohort numbers do not represent all proven offenders. Because of the follow-up and waiting periods the latest cohort is about 21 months old at publication. From the October to December 2015 cohort the data come from different sources and earlier cohorts are not directly comparable. Rates based on fewer than 30 offenders are suppressed.

When the way this was measured changed

A series can move because the thing being measured changed, or because the way of measuring it changed. Each change below is marked on the chart, and says what the figures meant on either side of it.

October 2015 · methodology change

Before
Reoffending measured from the earlier data sources.
After
Reoffending measured from different data sources, from the October to December 2015 cohort.

From the October to December 2015 cohort reoffending is measured from different data sources; earlier cohorts are not directly comparable.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Ministry of Justice
Publication
Proven reoffending statistics quarterly
Release
July to September 2024 cohort, published 30 July 2026
Source file
proven-reoffending-jul24-sep24-3-monthly.ods
File SHA-256
0cb6ff3309832bef0076cbb98bfa3ef785e4856500ed675b9f2647fe54ad1f85
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
A1_(3_monthly)
Table
Table A1
Row
Adult offenders / Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%)
Column
Jul - Sep 2024
Cell value
29.7303112896285
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
percent
API
/api/metrics/proven_reoffending_rate_adults · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Conservative 2019–202425.6%2019 Q329.5%2024 Q2↑ 15.0%
Conservative 2017–201928.4%2017 Q125.6%2019 Q3↓ 9.8%
Conservative 2015–201728.2%2015 Q128.4%2017 Q1↑ 0.7%

Full comparison with chart

Release
July to September 2024 cohort · publication page
Last updated
30 July 2026
Next scheduled release
29 October 2026 (official date)