Prison Sentences John Battle To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many sentenced receptions there were in prisons in England and Wales for offences related to (a) violence against persons (b) sexual offences, (c) burglary, (d) robbery, (e) theft, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage, (h) motoring offences, (i) drug offences and (j) other offences in each of the last five years. Mr. Hanson The following table shows the number of sentenced prisoner receptions in England and Wales by main offence group over the last five years for which figures are available: ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Offence group |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate custodial sentence|90,523|93,615|92,245|93,326|90,414| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Violence against the person |13,835|13,596|13,724|15,735|16,744| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Sexual offences |2,372 |2,449 |2,350 |2,551 |2,452 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Robbery |4,060 |4,812 |4,368 |4,372 |3,894 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Burglary |9,889 |10,178|9.191 |8,434 |7,550 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Theft and handling |22,336|22,590|21,335|19,561|17,880| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Fraud and forgery |2,988 |2,966 |2,982 |3.175 |4,062 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Drug offences |7,522 |7,276 |7,135 |7,153 |7,060 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Motoring offences |14,507|15,039|15,802|14,322|12,326| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Other offences |11,543|12,727|13,790|16,568|17,498| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Offence not recorded |1,671 |1,982 |1,568 |1,455 |948 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Criminal damage is included under “other offences”. This information is available in table 7.2 of the Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2005, a copy of which is placed in the House of Commons Library. The 2006 volume will soon be made available. 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. John Battle To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners in England and Wales had sentences which were of (a) under three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six months to a year, (d) one year to two years, (e) two years to three years, (f) three years to four years, (g) four years to five years, (h) five years to 10 years, (i) 10 years to less than life and (j) life and at the pleasure of the Secretary of State on the latest date for which figures are available. Mr. Hanson The figures requested are published as table 8.19 of the offender management caseload statistics, 2005, and are available from the Library of the House of Commons. The following table has been extracted from the published data. It gives the sentenced prison population by sentence length band for all prison establishments in England and Wales as at 30 June 2005: --------------------------------------------------------- | |Number| --------------------------------------------------------- |All sentence lengths |62,179| --------------------------------------------------------- |Up to and including three months |1,882 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over three months up to and Including six months|4,127 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over six months less than 12 months |2,225 | --------------------------------------------------------- |12 months |1,778 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over 12 months up to and Including 18 months |3.510 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over 18 months up to and including three years |11,344| --------------------------------------------------------- |Over three years less than four years |4,996 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Four years |3,900 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over four years up to and including five years |6,773 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Over five years up to and including 10 years |12,458| --------------------------------------------------------- |Over 10 years less than indeterminate |3,305 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate |5,882 | --------------------------------------------------------- The equivalent table for 200 will be available later in 2007. A less detailed breakdown by sentence length is available for August 2007 at table 1 of the monthly published tables available at my Department's website. 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.