Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence for the offence of assisted suicide is for each year since 2009.

The number of offenders sentenced at all courts, by type of sentence and custodial sentence length band, for the offence of encouraging or assisting suicide or attempted suicide, in England and Wales, for the period 2009 to 2014, is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls

Select the offence “76 Aiding Suicide” to present information on offenders sentenced at all courts for this offence.

The Ministry of Justice does not publish the average custodial sentence length in circumstances where the number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody is too small to give a meaningful average – specifically when there are fewer than five offenders.