Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sex offenders convicted in each of the last five years were sentenced to a (a) non-custodial sentence, (b) custodial sentence of less than six months, (c) custodial sentence of 6-12 months, (d) custodial sentence of one-five years, (e) a custodial sentence of 5-10 years and (f) a custodial sentence of more than 10 years by sexual offence type.

Data on the number of offenders sentenced to custody for sexual offences, broken down by offence and length of sentence, is available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at: https://www.gov.uk/Government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017

To obtain the requested data, carry out the following steps:

• Remove the ‘Values’ field from Rows

• Select 2013 to 2017 in the ‘Year’ field

• Filter ‘Offence group’ to ‘02: Sexual offences’

• Drag the ‘Offence’ field into Rows

• Drag all the ‘Custody’ fields into Values (this can also be done by ticking the boxes for each field and ensuring the ‘Values’ field this creates is in Rows)

• For each requested sentence length period, combine the values of the relevant custodial sentence lengths

• For those sentenced to a non-custodial sentence, drag the ‘Sentenced’ and ‘Total Immediate Custody’ fields into Values and take the difference as the number of non-custodial sentences.