Lord Keen of Elie corrected a written answer on Pre-sentence Reports: Females

26 September 2019 · Lords written answer · Ministry of Justice

Lord Bradley (Labour, Life peer) asked written question HL17746 on 5 September 2019. Lord Keen of Elie answered on 9 September 2019 for the Ministry of Justice, and Lord Keen of Elie corrected the answer on 26 September 2019. The corrected text adds the figures 1,011, 108, 115, 3,770, 366, 690, which the original did not give. Altogether 118 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women sentenced in (1) the magistrates courts, and (2) the Crown Courts, in England and Wales did not have a pre-sentence report prepared for them in each of the last five years.

Original and corrected answer

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\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| ~~It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.~~	It is not possible to give figures for the number of sentenced women who did not have a pre-sentence report (PSR), as this would involve a process of matching court record data with probation data and the cost of doing so would be disproportionate. Regarding the women’s prison population according to age, as at 30 June 2019, the total number of female prisoners was 3,770. The age distribution is shown in the table below: Age \| Under 21 \| 115 21-30 \| 1,011 31-35 \| 696 36-40 \| 690 41-50 \| 784 51-60 \| 366 Over 60 \| 108

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~~It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.~~

It is not possible to give figures for the number of sentenced women who did not have a pre-sentence report (PSR), as this would involve a process of matching court record data with probation data and the cost of doing so would be disproportionate.
Regarding the women’s prison population according to age, as at 30 June 2019, the total number of female prisoners was 3,770. The age distribution is shown in the table below:
Age
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Under 21
| 115
21-30
| 1,011
31-35
| 696
36-40
| 690
41-50
| 784
51-60
| 366
Over 60
| 108

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