Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received custodial sentences in 2017; how many (a) men and (b) women among those people received a sentence of (i) less than (A) two weeks, (B) one month, (C) three months, (D) six months and (E) 12 months and (ii) over 12 months; and what the average sentence length was of those people who received less than three months.

The number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody in 2017, broken down by sex and sentence lengths of less than two weeks, two weeks to less than one month, one month to less than three months, three months to less than six months, six months to less than twelve months, twelve months, and over twelve months, can be viewed in the table.

The average custodial length for those offenders sentenced to immediate custody for less than three months in 2017 was 1.5 months.

National Statistics on court outcomes for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.