Question follow-through · 90696
Life Imprisonment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many whole life orders were handed down by courts in England and Wales in each year between 2021 and 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many whole life orders were handed down by courts in England and Wales in each year between 2021 and 2025.
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes Accredited Official Statistics on sentencing outcomes including life sentences, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Stati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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