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Written question asked by Simon Burns (Conservative) on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 January 2008. It was answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Monday, 7 January 2008 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Sentencing

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many young offenders have been given a custodial sentence in West Chelmsford constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer

Numbers given immediate custody by criminal justice area are published in the Ministry of Justice statistical bulletin, 'Sentencing Statistics 2006'. The total number sentenced and the percentage given immediate custody for Essex can be found in Table 5.1."http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/sentencing-stats2006.pdf"Please note that these figures are for all ages and are not limited to young offenders.The information is also in the table as follows.

Number of young offenders¹ sentenced to immediate custody at Chelmsford courts², 2002-06
Defendants
Court 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Aged 10-17
Chelmsford magistrates court 26 23 41 28 21
Chelmsford Crown court 12 7 12 14 9
Aged 18-20
Chelmsford magistrates court 61 52 70 53 57
Chelmsford Crown court 75 81 76 97 98
Total for Chelmsford 174 163 199 192 185
¹ Young offenders are aged 18-20.
² Magistrates courts in Chelmsford and the Crown court if committed by magistrates in Chelmsford.
Note:
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.
Source:
RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
470 c173-4W; 174980
Session
2007-08
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2007-0350
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Custodial treatment Young offenders Chelmsford
Link
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