Community Orders
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who received a sentence of unpaid work failed to (a) start and (b) complete their sentence in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jake Richards
The data requested can be found in the following table:
Sentence Financial Year | % individuals who failed to start UPW | % individuals who failed to complete UPW |
2021/22* | 8.4% | 40.7% |
2022/23 | 7.8% | 36.4% |
2023/24 | 6.2% | 34.2% |
2024/25 | 6.1% | 36.7% |
Periods marked with an asterisk (*) indicate incomplete performance years. The data provided is from July 2021, the month following the reunification of the Probation Service.
All data has been sourced from nDelius on 13/04/2026. While this data has been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.
Please note, data relating to those sentenced in 2025/26 has not been provided as recording of this period is still ongoing and it would therefore not portray a true reflection of current performance.
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