Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of women serving custodial sentences are serving a sentence of six months or less.

As at 30 September 2019 (latest available data), 11% of the total female sentenced population were serving sentences of 6 months or less.

Further information is available in Table 1.1 of the document “Prison population: 30 September 2019” at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2019.