Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May to Question 141740, on Knives: crime, how many of the custodial sentences referred to were (a) immediate custodial sentences and (b) suspended sentences.
Pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2018 to Question 141740, the number of a) immediate custodial sentences and b) suspended sentences handed down by the courts in England and Wales in 2017, broken down by the selected offences of possession of an article with a blade or point, or threatening with an article with a blade or point, can be viewed in the table.