To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023
to Question 188259 on Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
Individuals in the Criminal Justice System Independent Review, what the average sentence
was for people convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent by (a) Crown Court and
(b) the defendant’s (i) gender, (ii) ethnicity, and (iii) age in each of the last
five years.
<p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information from 2010 to 2022 on the number of
defendants <del class="ministerial">prosecuted </del><ins class="ministerial">prosecuted,
convicted and sentenced</ins> for offences under Section 18 of Offences Against the
Person Act 1861 (offence code 00501), in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool.</p><p>The
attached tables provide a breakdown of <ins class="ministerial">average custodial
sentence length (ACSL) for defendants sentenced</ins> <del class="ministerial">convictions</del>
for the offence contrary to Section 18 of the Offences Against Person Act 1861 (causing
grievous bodily harm with intent) within the last three years, where it has been treated
as a principal offence by Crown Court (table 1), and in all courts by information
on gender (table 2), ethnicity (table 3), and age (table 4).</p><p>Detailed offence
data at Crown Court are only available in the Court Proceedings Database from 2020
onwards. Therefore, figures for all tables have been limited to 2020 onwards in order
to give a complete view of each year presented.</p>
