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Life Imprisonment: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many life sentences have been handed out to people under the age of 16 in the last five years.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
5 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many life sentences have been handed out to people under the age of 16 in the last five years.

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    Between year ending September 2021 and year ending September 2025, 10 defendants aged under 16 have been given a life sentence. This is a further breakdown of published sentencing outcomes data released routinely as part of the Accredited Official Statist...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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