Prison Sentences

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 30 October 2019.

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Photo of Gloria De Piero Gloria De Piero Labour, Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the population of (a) Ashfield, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England has received a (i) custodial prison sentence and (ii) suspended prison sentence at some point in their lives.

Photo of Lucy Frazer Lucy Frazer The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice

This information is not readily available and would require individual court files to be checked for the required information which would incur disproportionate costs.

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