Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2019 to Question 20986, how many prisoners were given custodial sentences in Nottinghamshire in each year since 2015.

Data on the number of offenders sentenced to custody in Nottinghamshire in each year since 2015 has been published up to December 2017 and is available in the “Court Outcomes by Police Force Area data tool” at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017

To obtain the requested data:

• Ensure that the ‘Court Type’ filter is set to “All”

• Select “15: Immediate Custody” in the ‘Outcome’ filter

• Figures for Nottinghamshire can be found in row 71.

Data for 2018 is due to be published in May 2019.