Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders have been given immediate custodial sentences at magistrates courts in Wales in each of the last seven years.

Data for sentencing broken down by age, sex and location has been published up to December 2017 and can be found in the ‘Court outcomes by Police Force Area data tool’, available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733996/court-outcomes-by-pfa-2017-update.xlsx.

For Wales, filter the Police Force Area to Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales, South Wales.

For England, remove the above locations and ‘special/miscellaneous and unknown police forces’ from the Police Force Area filter.

For the number of young adults sentenced to less than 12 months custody:

• Select ‘All’ in the ‘Court type’ filter
• Select ’02: Young adults’ in the ‘Age Group’ filter
• Select the relevant sentence lengths using the ‘Custodial Sentence Length’ filter

For the number of females given immediate custodial sentences at magistrates’ court:

• Select ’02: Magistrates’ Court’ in the ‘Court type’ filter
• Select ’02: Female’ in the ‘Sex’ filter
• Select ’15: Immediate custody’ in the ‘Outcome’ filter
• Select the four Welsh police forces in the Police Force Area