Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who have been sentenced for rape have received sentences of seven years or more in each of the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted, convicted and sentenced, with their sentencing outcomes, for the years 2017-2021, in the Outcomes by Offence data tool 2021.

Navigate to the ‘Sentencing Outcomes’ tab and use the Offence filter to select the applicable offences (19C, 19D, 19E, 19F, 19G, 19H). For a detailed breakdown of sentence lengths of those sentenced to immediate custody, drag in ‘Custodial Sentence Length’ to the rows section of the field list.