Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of pre-sentence reports presented to magistrates’ courts contained a sentence recommendation of (a) immediate custody; (b) suspended custody and (c) a community order in the last year for which information is available.

The information requested has been provided in the table below showing the number and proportion of recommendations in pre-sentence reports prepared for Magistrates courts in 2017 where the sentence proposed was Community order, Immediate custody or Suspended Sentence.

It should be noted that these figures are based on all pre-sentence reports for which a sentence was given and that the total number of proposed sentences also includes instances where a fine was the proposed sentence.