Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people convicted of shoplifting were given an immediate custodial sentence in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of offenders convicted of shoplifting and subsequently sentenced to immediate custody has been published up to December 2017 and is available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017

To obtain the requested data, select ’46 Theft from Shops’ in the “Offence” filter. The number of offenders sentenced can be found in row 25, and the number of those sentenced to immediate custody can be found in row 35.