Remand in Custody
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales in each calendar year from 2018 to 2024; of these people, for each year, how many were guilty but given a non-custodial sentence; and for each year, what was the (a) median, (b) mean and (c) 90th percentile for time on remand in prison for those found guilty and given non-custodial sentences.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
However, data held centrally does not include information on the time a person spent on remand in prison.
Data on the number of remand prisoners in each prison in the HMPPS estate is routinely published within the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ): Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK.
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