HC Deb 30 October 1979 vol 972 c456W
Mr. Charles Irving

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in each of the years 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978, what percentage of convictions for (a) indictable and (b) non-indictable offences, resulted in a prison sentence.

Mr. Brittan

The percentage of offenders sentenced for indictable offences and for non-indictable offences who received sentences of imprisonment are published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—tables 6.1 and 6.9 of the volume for 1978, Cmnd. 7670.