Offences against Children: Sentencing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions for child sex offences did not result in a custodial sentence in in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the sentencing outcomes for offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Although child sex offences is not a defined category within the tool, you can filter offences using the HO Offence code to select the specific offences of interest.
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