Sentencing
Commons · Question 41171 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 2 Apr 2025
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...