Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 1 March 2022.
Steve Reed
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many custodial sentences of six months or less have been handed down by courts in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
James Cartlidge
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) , Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice has published information on sentencing outcomes in England and Wales up to December 2020, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, which can be found here: Criminal justice statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
In the data tool, the number of defendants, by year, who received a custodial sentence of 6 months or less can be found on rows 55 – 59.
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