Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) male, and (2) female, prisoners are currently serving an Extended Determinate Sentence with a custodial term of (a) less than or equal to 6 months, (b) greater than 6 months to less than 12 months, (c) 12 months to less than 2 years, (d) 2 years to less than 4 years, (e) 4 years to less than 5 years, (f) 5 years to less than 7 years, (g) 7 years to less than 10 years, (h) 10 years to less than 14 years, (i) 14 years or more.

The requested information can be found in the table below.

Table: Prisoners serving an Extended Determinate Sentence by sentence length, as at 30 September 2025, England and Wales [note 1][note 2]

[note 1] Figures based on Extended Determinate Sentenced prisoners with a recorded sentence length.

[note 2] Judicially Imposed Sentence lengths as recorded on prison-NOMIS

Data quality - The figures in the table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Disclosure control - Where necessary, [c] has been used to suppress values of one or two to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further disclosure control may be completed where this alone is not sufficient. This could include the secondary suppression of zero values.

Additional resources - Key statistics relating to offenders who are in prison or under Probation Service supervision can be found in the Offender management statistics quarterly (OMSQ) publication - Link to 'OMSQ publication' (opens in a new window).

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