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<p>We welcomed the Lammy Review in 2017 and committed to taking actions against each
of the recommendations from the Review, bar the two for the independent judiciary.
Where a recommendation could not be implemented exactly as set out, alternative approaches
were sought to tackle the same issue. Now, almost all of the actions we originally
committed have been carried out.</p><p>Recommendation 12 of the Review states that
“the Open Justice initiative should be extended and updated so that it is possible
to view sentences for individual offences at individual courts, broken down by demographic
characteristics, including gender and ethnicity”.</p><p>Since 2017, as we committed
to, we have been increasing the availability of demographic data on our justice system
users. Experts can now access more detailed data, including on ethnicity and other
protected characteristics, through our pioneering data-linking programme Data First.
This is providing new insights in a way that has not been possible before, by linking
data from across the justice system and making it available for independent academic
research. The Data First datasets provide detailed information on defendants and their
outcomes, enabling new research exploring sentencing and case outcomes, broken down
by demographic characteristics, including ethnicity and gender.</p><p>Outside of this
programme court outcomes for individual offences and protected characteristics are
publicly available and can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics quarterly.
This publication produces tools on an annual basis by demographic characteristics,
offence information, and by Police Force Area. Currently, data for individual courts
can be produced upon request, and we are exploring ways to develop these data further,
balancing user needs and accessibility.</p>
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