The Attorney-General's Office publishes annual statistics on unduly lenient sentence references on its website:
www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
The following table shows the number of offenders whose sentences were referred to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient, the number of offenders whose references were subsequently withdrawn and the number of offenders who were therefore brought before the Court of Appeal in each of the last five years for which full statistics have been published.
Offenders referred to Court of Appeal Withdrawn references Offenders brought to the Court of Appeal 2002 148 9 139 2003 102 6 96 2004 159 22 137 2005 127 19 108 2006 160 16 144
The Attorney-General's Office publishes annual statistics on unduly lenient sentence references on its website:
www.attomeygeneral.gsi.gov.uk
The following table shows the number of offenders whose sentences were referred to the Court of Appeal on the basis that the minimum term attached to a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (under section 225 (3) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) was unduly lenient in each of the years when the sentence was available to the court and for which full statistics have been published.
Number 20051 0 2006 2 1 The legislation came into force on 4 April 2005 and applies to offences committed from that date.