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1681554

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the College of Policing's publication entitled Imprisonment and other custodial sanctions, published on 30 November 2023, if he will (a) make and (b) publish an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of that publication on the impact on reoffending of (i) custodial and (ii) non-custodial sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	9292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to publish an assessment of the implications of this publication, as the findings of the College of Policing’s report entitled ‘Imprisonment and other custodial sanctions’ support the findings of Ministry of Justice research.</p><p>A 2019 MoJ analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts</p><p>Our statistics suggest that 55% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months are convicted for further crimes. For offenders punished with Suspended Sentence Orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24%.</p><p>Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. This measure will place a duty on the courts to suspend custodial sentences of 12 months or less. Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community and will be required to comply. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 18/01/2024 12:19:31 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1543864

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) male, and (2) female, prisoners are currently in prison having been recalled, and are serving a custodial sentence of (a) less than 12 months, (b) between 12 months and two years, (c) between two and four years, (d) between four and five years, (e) between five and seven years, (f) between seven and 10 years, (g) between 10 and 14 years, and (h) 14 years or more.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL3589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>The answer is given in the table below. In order to protect the public, offenders on licence are liable to be recalled to prison at any time if they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to demonstrate increased risk, such that the risk may no longer be effectively managed in the community.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Table 1: Recall prison population, by recorded sentence length<sup>(1)</sup> and sex, as at 30 Sep 2022; England &amp; Wales</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,448</strong></p></td><td><p>10,053</p></td><td><p>395</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than 12 months</p></td><td><p><strong>680</strong></p></td><td><p>621</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months to less than 2 years</p></td><td><p><strong>911</strong></p></td><td><p>857</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 years to less than 4 years</p></td><td><p><strong>2,206</strong></p></td><td><p>2,091</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4 years to less than 5 years</p></td><td><p><strong>954</strong></p></td><td><p>914</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5 years to less than 7 years</p></td><td><p><strong>1,315</strong></p></td><td><p>1,281</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7 years to less than 10 years</p></td><td><p><strong>1,247</strong></p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 years to less than 14 years</p></td><td><p><strong>639</strong></p></td><td><p>627</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14 years or over</p></td><td><p><strong>243</strong></p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other / Not Recorded<sup>(2)</sup></p></td><td><p><strong>2,253</strong></p></td><td><p>2,208</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>NOTES</strong></p><p>(1) For recalled prisoners this should correspond with the original sentence length, but there may be cases for which this instead reflects the 'length of recall'</p><p>(2) This includes those recalled from indeterminate sentences who do not have a recorded sentence length.</p><p><strong>Date Sources and Quality</strong></p><p>The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p><strong>Source: </strong>prison-NOMIS (ref. PQ HL3589)</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 30/11/2022 12:54:23 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1504746

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comparative effectiveness of (1) short prison sentences, and (2) community sentences, in reducing and preventing re-offending.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL2155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The overall proven reoffending rate has broadly decreased over the past ten years from 30.9% in 2009/2010 to 25.6% in 2019/20 (although the latest figures have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic).</p><p>Evidence suggests that community sentences, in certain circumstances, are more effective in reducing reoffending than short custodial sentences. A MoJ 2019 study, attached, found that the one-year reoffending rate(1) following short term custodial sentences of less than 12 months was higher than if a community sentence had instead been given (by 4 percentage points).</p><p>Sentencing in individual cases is wholly a matter for our independent courts. Sentencers should continue to have the option of imposing a short custodial sentence where appropriate. However, custody should be a last resort and we recognise that, if we are to break the cycle of re-offending, solutions will often lie in robust and effective community sentences.</p><p>1 One-year reoffending rate means the percentage of offenders, in any cohort, who were released from custody, or received a non-custodial conviction or a caution, and then went on to commit a subsequent proven offence within a 12 month follow up period (plus a six-month waiting period).</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/09/2022 13:49:19 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy attachment 1 file name 2022-09-20 HL2155 Annex A.pdf title HL2155 Annex A
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1454016

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures for the proportion of prisoners sentenced to custodial sentences who had previously received at least one community sentence for each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	146639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>Data showing the proportion of prisoners sentenced to custodial sentences who have previously had at least one community sentence for each of the last ten years, is published on the Police National Computer. This can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table showing the proportion of offenders<sup>1, 2</sup> sentenced to immediate custody<sup>3</sup> in each year, 2011-2020, who previously<sup>4</sup> received at least one community order<sup>5</sup>, prior to the immediate custodial sentence. England and Wales<sup>6</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Proportion of offenders who received at least one community order prior to an immediate custodial sentence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Source</strong>: MoJ extract of the Police National Computer</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1 - 'Proportion' refers to: The number of offenders in each year who received an immediate custodial sentence in each year and had at least one previous community order as a proportion of all offenders who received an immediate custodial sentence in the same year.</p><p>2 - Offenders are counted once in each year but may appear in multiple years if they received an immediate custodial sentence in more than one of the ten years.</p><p>3- Immediate custodial sentences include types of detention other than adult prison (e.g. detention and training orders given to 10 to 17 year olds or detention in Young Offenders Institutions). An offender sentenced to immediate custody does not necessarily mean that the offender is a member of the prison population.</p><p>4 - Previous community orders may have been received at any time prior to the index offence (last immediate custodial sentence) in each year.</p><p>5 - Community orders include all community orders, with or without electronic monitoring or curfew restrictions, but <strong>excludes </strong>other types of community sentences (e.g. youth rehabilitation order) and other sentences that may be served in the community (e.g. suspended sentence).</p><p>6 - England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 29/03/2022 15:51:35 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1452752

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who have received a custodial sentence have (a) not previously served or (b) previously served (i) between one and four, (ii) between five and nine and (iii) more than 10 community sentences in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	143695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Data showing the proportion of offenders who were sentenced to custody by the number of community orders served in each of the last five years can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Proportion<sup>1</sup> of offenders<sup>2</sup> who received an immediate custodial sentence<sup>3</sup> by year and number of previous community orders<sup>4,5</sup>, England and Wales<sup>6</sup>, 2016 to 2020</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Previous community orders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1 to 4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5 to 9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10 or more</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Source: </strong>Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>1 - Proportion refers to the number of offenders who have received previous community orders as a proportion of those who received an immediate custodial sentence in each year. The proportions have been rounded to whole numbers.</p><p>2 - Offenders are counted once in each year but may appear in multiple years if they received an immediate custodial sentence in more than one of the five years.</p><p>3- Immediate custodial sentences include types of detention other than adult prison (e.g. detention and training orders given to 10 to 17 year olds or detention in Young Offenders Institutions).</p><p>4 - Previous community orders are counted as at the last immediate custodial sentence the offender received in each year and may have been received at any time prior to the immediate custodial sentence.</p><p>5 - Community orders includes all community orders, with or without electronic monitoring or curfew restrictions, but excludes other types of community sentences (e.g. youth rehabilitation order) and other sentences that may be served in the community (e.g. suspended sentence).</p><p>6 - England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 28/03/2022 10:59:49 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1301883

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases offenders received less than the minimum sentence for (a) third-time convictions for domestic burglary and (b) second-time convictions for possession of a knife or offensive weapon in each of the last five years broken down by the age range of offenders.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	167198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>Obtaining the necessary information to answer these questions involves accessing the secure Police National Computer (PNC) system, which my relevant officials are unable to do at this time due to the current national lockdown and the need to minimise non-essential travel.</p><p> </p><p>I will write to the Hon Member in due course with the information requested, once my officials are able to safely access the PNC system, and will place a copy of my letter in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/03/2021 17:18:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1177970

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of offenders that having committed 15 or more previous offences were not sent to prison on conviction for (a) burglary and (b) violence against the person in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	1223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>In the year ending March 2019 there were 2,352 offenders convicted of burglary and 4,343 offenders convicted of a violence against the person offence where this was the principal offence of which the offender was convicted, where the offender received a sentence other than immediate custody and had 15 or more previous convictions or cautions for individual counts of any offence.</p><p>Sentencing is a matter for our independent courts, who take into account all circumstances of the case, including any aggravating and mitigating factors. We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/02/2020 15:47:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177605

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders receiving an immediate custodial sentence had (a) zero, (b) one to four, (c) five to nine, (d) 10 to 15, (e) 16 to 25, (f) 26 to 50, (g) 51 to 75, (h) 76 to 100, (i) 101 to 150, (j) 151 to 200 and (k) 200 or more previous offences on their record at the time of that sentencing in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Data covering the period year ending March 2010 – year ending March 2019 on the proportion of offenders sentenced to immediate custody with a specified number of previous cautions and convictions can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 24/02/2020 17:00:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 510 Response Table.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177606

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each police force area who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody in each year since 2010 had previously committed (a) zero, (b) one to four, (c) five to nine, (d) 10 to 15, (e) 16 to 25, (f) 26 to 50, (g) 51 to 75, (h) 76 to 100, (i) 101 to 150, (j) 151 to 200 and (k) 200 offences.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of offenders in each police force area who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody in each year since 2010 had previously committed (a) zero, (b) one to four, (c) five to nine, (d) 10 to 15, (e) 16 to 25, (f) 26 to 50, (g) 51 to 75, (h) 76 to 100, (i) 101 to 150, (j) 151 to 200 and (k) 200 offences can be viewed in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Sentencing is a matter for our independent courts, who take into account all circumstances of the case, including any aggravating and mitigating factors. We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:20:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 511 response table.xlsx title Table 511
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177610

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders had the time spent on tagged curfew deducted from their subsequent prison sentence in the most recent 12 months period for which such information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>Data relating to bail conditions including tagged curfew is not held centrally on court systems.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 516 question first answered 18/02/2020 16:11:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies