Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving custodial prison sentences as of 28 March 2022 have (a) not previously served and (b) previously served (i) between one and four, (ii) between five and nine and (iii) more than 10 community sentences.

This data requires linking Police National Computer data with prisons data and would therefore be of disproportionate cost.