Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest available figures for the (1) number, and (2) method of delivery, of pre-sentence reports in courts in England and Wales.

Data on pre-sentence reports in England and Wales is published in the Ministry of Justice’s quarterly Offender Management Statistics Bulletin. The latest published data is for October to December 2022. In this latest quarter there were a total of 21,771 pre-sentence reports (PSRs) produced. The breakdown in terms of method of delivery was as follows:

1,013 Standard PSR

15,338 Fast Delivery PSR Written

5,420 Fast Delivery PSR Oral

In 2022 overall, there were a total of 83,240 pre-sentence reports produced. The breakdown in terms of method of delivery was as follows:

3,561 Standard PSR

58,375 Fast Delivery PSR Written

21,304 Fast Delivery PSR Oral