Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous offences of theft from a shop or stall was for people convicted of that offence and not given a sentence of immediate custody in each of the last three years; and what the sentence was for the most recent offence in each of those cases.

Data on the highest number of previous cautions and convictions for a specified offence for offenders convicted of that specified offence and given a sentence other than immediate custody, and the sentence given for the most recent specified offence, year ending March 2017 to year ending March 2019, can be viewed in the attached table.