Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 78290

Offences against Children: Convictions

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Louise Haigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish data on (a) the parental responsibility status of offenders sentenced for sexual offences against children under 13 and (b) the number of such offenders who were sentenced to more t

Answer

Jake Richards

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences for sexual offences, including average custodial sentence lengths, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice s...

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