Ms Fíona Ní Chinnéide:

No, I do not know the methodology behind it but certainly the Ministry for Justice in England and Wales carried out analysis. Those responsible looked at a particular age group and a particular year. It was similar to the Scottish research. They found that one in three men born in 1971 had a criminal conviction and one in nine women. This is consistent with the Scottish analysis, which was similar. I read out the statistics earlier. The corresponding figures were 38% of men born in 1973 and 9% of women.