Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women sentenced to (a) less than and (b) more than six months were taken into immediate custody from each (i) magistrates and (ii) Crown court in East Anglia in 2022-23; and what the offence classification was in each of those cases.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of custodial sentences issued at criminal courts in England and Wales. This includes breakdowns by sex, sentence length, offence group and police force area:

- Magistrates’ courts: Magistrates' court data tool

- Crown Court: Crown Court data tool

However, this published data does not include breakdowns by individual courts. Therefore, the information requested for magistrates’ courts has been provided in table 1 (broken down by Local Justice Area) and for Crown Court centres in table 2, both attached. The figures provided in these tables relate to criminal courts located in the police force areas of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk only, as an approximation to East Anglia.