Question follow-through · 64403
Offenders: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) male and (b) female ex-offenders found employment within six months of release in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) male and (b) female ex-offenders found employment within six months of release in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available.
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
The latest data available (April 2023-March 2024) shows that 13.0% of females and 21.8% of males in the West Midlands region were employed six months after release from custody, a gap of 8.8 percentage points. This represents 30 females and 715 males from...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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