Sexual Offences: Sentencing

(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders who did not receive a custodial sentence for their first sex offence were subsequently convicted of further sexual offences in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 16th January 2019

Table 1: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.

Year Ending June

Number of offenders

2014

365

2015

394

2016

465

2017

413

2018

389

Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer

Notes:

1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.

2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.

Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.

Year ending June

Number of offenders

2014

709

2015

769

2016

852

2017

811

2018

801

Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer

Notes:

1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.

2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.

The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.

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