Gangs: Databases
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving custodial sentences were convicted based on evidence from the Gang Violence Matrix.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on offenders convicted and sentenced to immediate custody in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
However, data held centrally does not include information on whether defendants were sentenced based on information obtained from the Gang Violence Matrix.
This information may be held in court records, but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate cost.
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