Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 41171

Sentencing

Tabled: 25 March 2025

Answered: 2 April 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of sentences given in (a) magistrates’ courts and (b) crown courts were less than 60% of the statutory maximum length in the latest period for which data is available.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of offenders sentenced at criminal courts in England and Wales in the following links. This includes the information on sentence outcomes, including grouped custodial sentence lengths and average senten...

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