Question follow-through · 16091
Sentencing: Young Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence length was for those convicted aged 16 to 25 at the time of sentencing for cases included in the CPS Joint Enterprise National Monitoring Scheme 2024-25 by ethnicity and sex.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 6 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence length was for those convicted aged 16 to 25 at the time of sentencing for cases included in the CPS Joint Enterprise National Monitoring Scheme 2024-25 by ethnicity and sex.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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9 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on average sentence length for a variety of offences including murder and attempted murder in England and Wales. These data are available by ethnicity and sex in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downlo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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