Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were given prison sentences for child sexual abuse offences of (a) up to one year, (b) one to five years, (c) five to 10 years and (d) 10 years or more by plea entered in 2017.

The number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for child sexual abuse offences at Crown Court in 2017 can be found in Table 1. This information is broken down by sentences of up to and including one year, over one year up to and including five years, over five years and up to and including ten years, over ten years and less than life and life sentence. Information on plea entered is provided for offenders sentenced at Crown Court however not for magistrates’ court as this information is not held centrally within the Court Proceedings Database.