Correction to a Written Parliamentary Answer
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The Attorney General (Michael Ellis)
On 23 June 2020, the Attorney General’s Office answered a written parliamentary question tabled by Richard Holden MP. The written answer included incorrect figures relating to the number of overall appeals, and successful appeals that the Department has made against unduly lenient sentences. Year Appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue leniency Successful appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue 2000 31 Data unavailable 2001 147 [160] 90 2002 148 [135] 94 [92] 2003 96 78 [77] 2004 105 [136] 66 [85] 2005 108 67 2006 144 104 2007 76 [106] 53 [75] 2008 59 [71] 46 [51] 2009 84 [108] 58 [71] 2010 77 [78] 60 2011 117 94 2012 82 62 2013 70 61 2014 122 106 2015 136 102 2016 180 [190] 130 [141] 2017 173 137 2018 140 99 2019 97 [93] 63 [65]
The question was:
“To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) appeals and (b) successful appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue leniency, in each of the last 20 years.” [61628]
The Departmental answer was:
The statistics from 2000 are provided below. It should be noted that Attorney General’s Office does not hold accurate data prior to 2001 and we are not in possession of the data indicating the number of successful appeals for the year 2000”.
However, checks on our data have revealed that some minor corrections need to be made. These corrections are included in square brackets below.
Through this ministerial statement I am correcting this error, which arose out of the method used to collate the data. The Department now has more robust systems for collating and quality assuring the unduly lenient sentence data it publishes.
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