Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 78289

Offences against Children: Prison Sentences

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Louise Haigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders with parental responsibility for a minor child have received a custodial sentence of over four years in each year since 2017 for a sexual offence against (a) their own child and (b) any child.

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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