Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 78292

Offences against Children: Prison Sentences

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Louise Haigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on the number of offenders sentenced to more than four years’ custody for sexual offences against children, broken down by whether the victim was (a) their own child and (b) anot

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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