Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 9th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have received an increased sentence for an offence specified as aggravated under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018.


Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 17th May 2019

The number of individuals proceeded against and convicted of an assault against an emergency worker can be found at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802035/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx.

Filter by ‘Offence’ for:

`8.22 Assault against an emergency worker’.

This link also provides information on the average length of sentence (in months) given to those convicted of this offence.

It is not possible to obtain an estimate of the number of people who have received an increased sentence for an offence specified as aggravated under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018. Detailed information may be held on individual court records but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access these individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.

Reticulating Splines