Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the custody rate was (a) in total and (b) by sex of the offender for each category of offence in each of the last three years.

Information up to December 2018 on sentencing outcomes relating to specific offence categories is published in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018.

To obtain the total custody rate for each offence group:

• In the Pivot Table Fields, drag ‘Offence group’ to the Rows field.
• The total custody rate can then be found by dividing ‘Total Immediate Custody’ (rows 206 – 218) by ‘Sentenced’ (rows 66 - 78) for each offence group.

To obtain the custody rate by sex of the offender:

• In the Pivot Table Fields, drag ‘Sex’ to the Rows field above the recently inserted ‘Offence group’.
• The custody rate by sex of the offender for each category of offence can then be found by dividing ‘Total Immediate Custody’ (rows 714 - 764) by ‘Sentenced’ (rows 184 - 234) for each offence group and corresponding sex.