Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of criminal damage to war memorials in the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted and sentencing outcomes for criminal damage offences across the last 5 years, in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2023.

However, for criminal damage offences, the specific target of the criminal damage is not recorded in the Court Proceedings Database and so it is not possible to distinguish criminal damage to memorials from wider criminal damage. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate cost.