Information on the number of sentences handed down by each judge in England and Wales which have been successfully appealed against in each of the last five years is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The information requested is in the following table.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Attorney-General unduly lenient sentence applications A-G sentence applications received 153 100 158 122 162 A-G sentence appeals heard 128 108 92 101 108 A-G sentence appeal allowed 91 84 70 64 78 A-G sentence appeal dismissed—trial judges sentence confirmed 37 24 22 37 30 Percentage of A-G sentence applications received that were successful 59.5 84.0 44.3 52.5 48.1 Sentence appeals Sentence applications received 5,804 5,664 5,809 5,178 5,082 Sentence appeals allowed 1,302 1,685 1,348 1,534 1,391 Sentence appeals dismissed 500 679 589 619 575 Sentence appeals heard 1,802 2,364 1,937 2,153 1,966 Percentage of sentence applications received that were successful 22.4 29.7 23.2 29.6 27.4