Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 65242

Prison Sentences

Tabled: 7 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of people in prison on custodial sentences was in each of the last 20 years.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
Information on the number of people in prison on custodial sentences is published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly.Data from 2002-2015 can be found in Table 1.Leg.1 at the following link: Prison-population-2002-to-2015.ods.Data from...

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