Community Orders
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community sentences were breached in the last year; what the consequences of those breaches were; how many breaches resulted in the offender being (a) imprisoned and (b) remanded in custody; and how many offenders were given another community sentence as a result of the breach.
Answered by Jake Richards
The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data on community order and suspended sentence order terminations, by termination reason, including those terminated following a further conviction or due to non-compliance with court ordered requirements. The latest available annual figures can be found in Table 6.22 of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin for 2025, available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69eff92e08ecdb5c6f34b020/probation-2025.ods.
It is not possible to identify the specific outcomes of these breaches without incurring disproportionate costs.
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