Community Orders: Appeals

(asked on 14th January 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants in each of the last five years have completed unpaid work as part of a sentence later overturned on appeal.


Answered by
Jake Richards Portrait
Jake Richards
Assistant Whip
This question was answered on 21st January 2026

The table below sets out number of individuals with sentences that terminated in the calendar years between 2021 and 2025, and where there was Unpaid Work completed as part of the sentence itself recorded as having been terminated due to being overturned on appeal:

Calendar year

Number of individuals

2021

92

2022

74

2023

62

2024

64

2025

71

These data have been gathered from National Delius (the Probation Service case management system).

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