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Criminal Behaviour Orders

Asked by Kim JohnsonLabourMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 78739

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal behaviour orders have been issued to (a) male and (b) female offenders in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jake Richards

The number of Criminal Behaviour Orders issued broken down by local justice area, police force area, sex, age, and the requested ethnicities for the last five years are provided in the attached tables.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order in the ‘Outcomes by Offences data tool’, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK.

However, it is not possible to state what proportion of orders are breached, as the data does not track individuals who were issued a Criminal Behaviour Order and then subsequently breached the order – they are recorded separately.

Policy responsibility for Criminal Behaviour Orders is a matter for the Home Office.

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