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Sentencing

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 21 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what individuals sentenced to two months custody or less served in custody during each of the last five years. (275489)

The average time served in days, including time on remand, for all prisoners sentenced to two months or less is shown in the following table.

Average time served (days)

2003

35

2004

34

2005

34

2006

35

2007

33

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.