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Sentencing Statistics

Volume 456: debated on Thursday 8 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many defendants in England and Wales received immediate custodial sentences for offences of (a) obtaining property by deception, (b) perverting or attempting to pervert the course of justice and (c) theft in each of the last five years for which figures are available. (118875)

The information requested is contained in the following table.

Persons sentenced to immediate custody for certain offences, England and Wales, 2001 to 2005

Obtaining property by deception

Perverting the course of justice1

Theft and handling stolen goods

2001

1,753

1,128

26,205

2002

1,691

960

27,945

2003

1,496

855

25,517

2004

1,414

890

22,759

2005

1,263

867

20,472

Notes:

1 Common law offences and offences of intimidating or harming jurors or witnesses.

Although care is taken in collating and analysing the returns used to compile these figures, the data are of necessity subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Consequently, although figures are shown to the last digit in order to provide a comprehensive record of the information collected, they are not necessarily accurate to the last digit shown.Common law offences and offences of intimidating or harming jurors or witnesses.

Source:

RDS-NOMS, Home Office