Prison Sentences
Commons · Question 65242 · Tabled 7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
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
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 15 Jul 2025
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...