Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of a stalking offence received a custodial sentence in the last 24 months.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on convictions and sentences for stalking offences in England and Wales, up to December 2019, available in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code’ data tool, which can be found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/938554/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx.

In the data tool linked above, use the ‘Offence code’ filter to select each/all of the following offences:

• 00856 - Racially or religiously aggravated stalking without violence
• 00858 - Racially or religiously aggravated stalking with fear of violence
• 00865 - Stalking involving fear of violence
• 00866 - Stalking involving serious alarm/distress
• 00874 - Breach of stalking order / interim stalking order
• 06816 - Various offences under sect 11(1)(A) & (2) of the Stalking Protection Act 2019
• 19512 - Pursue course of conduct in breach of S.1(1) of Protection from Harassment Act 1997 which amounts to stalking.

Number of convictions will populate Row 32; number of immediate custodial sentences will populate Row 41.