Young Offenders: Criminal Proceedings

(asked on 7th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken in days has been from arrest to sentence for persistant young offenders in each year since 2008.


Answered by
 Portrait
Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 14th March 2019

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the average number of days from offence to completion for all completed cases involving young offenders. This can be found here in the supplementary tables Annex E; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-statistics-2017-to-2018. The published data relates to all completed cases regardless of outcome, it does not breakdown by persistence or sentencing (i.e. guilty and not guilty).

The Ministry of Justice can identify persistent young offenders from arrest to completion but in order to link data to sentence outcomes we would need to do manual checks of a large data set and such information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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