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Offences against Children: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will provide sentencing data by (a) ethnicity and (b) nationality to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
23 Apr 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will provide sentencing data by (a) ethnicity and (b) nationality to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of offenders sentenced, which can be filtered to specific offences and broken down by defendant ethnicity. This can be obtained in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Cr...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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