Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (1) mean and (2) median tariff length is for people receiving a life sentence aged 16 to 25 at the time of sentencing in each year since 2015 by ethnicity.

The following tables show the (1) mean and (2) median tariff lengths for people receiving a life sentence aged 16 to 25 at the time of sentencing, by ethnicity, in each year since 2015.

Table 1: Mean tariff at sentence for life sentences by ethnicity and year of sentence

Table 2: Median tariff at sentence for life sentences by ethnicity and year of sentence

1. Tariff length is the time between date of sentencing and tariff expiry date and does not take into account any time served on remand.

2. ‘N/A’ entries include cases where a confirmed tariff expiry date has yet to be received, and any unmatched records.

3. 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.

Data quality

The figures in these tables have been derived from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.