Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October to Question 176311 on Offences Against Children: Sentencing, of the 3,234 people given custodial sentences in 2017 how many were (a) men and (b) women.

Of the 3,234 offenders who received immediate custodial sentences at the Crown Court in 2017 for child sexual abuse offences, 3,186 were male and 48 were female. This information can be found in Table 1.

The number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for child sexual abuse offences at the Crown Court between 2010 and 2016 can be found in Table 2. 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 the Crown Court only and is not provided for offenders sentenced at a magistrates’ court as this information is not held centrally within the Court Proceedings Database.