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Criminal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the guidance by her Department entitled Disclosing your criminal record, published on 28 October 2023, on what evidential basis the guidance says that one in four people of working age have a cr

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
28 Oct 2024
Answer
31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the guidance by her Department entitled Disclosing your criminal record, published on 28 October 2023, on what evidential basis the guidance says that one in four people of working age have a cr

  2. 28 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The statistic that approximately one in four people have a criminal record is based on Home Office data on the Police National Computer compared with population data.An updated estimate of the number of individuals of working age (16-64 and 16+) with a no...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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