Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list and place in the Library all research his Department has undertaken into short sentences in the last two years.

The Ministry of Justice has published a range of research publications with a focus on short-term prison sentences in the last two years:

• The relationship between offender characteristics and the impact of short custodial sentences and court orders on reoffending (2018): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706597/do-offender-characteristics-affect-the-impact-of-short-custodial-sentences.pdf
• The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on reoffending (2019): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/impact-of-short-custodial-sentences-community-orders-and-suspended-sentence-orders-on-reoffending

• The economic and social costs of reoffending (2019): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-and-social-costs-of-reoffending.