Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, whether the CPS has guidance on whether and in what manner it should publicly comment on controversial public policy matters.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

The CPS does not have any internal guidance relating to public commentary on public policy matters.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences, both in total, and broken down by offence, on the latest date on which the data is available.

Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip

Data on prisoners serving determinate and indeterminate sentences are published regularly in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, which includes information on offenders by main custody type and offence group: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.

The data used to produce the accredited official statistics does not allow us to easily identify standard determinate sentences from all determinate sentences in a robust way and therefore the information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.