PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(20 May 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences, both in total, and broken down by offence, on the latest date on which the data is available.

Asked by:
Dr Kieran Mullan (Conservative)

Data on prisoners serving determinate and indeterminate sentences are published regularly in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, which includes information on offenders by main custody type and offence group: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.

The data used to produce the accredited official statistics does not allow us to easily identify standard determinate sentences from all determinate sentences in a robust way and therefore the information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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