§ Vera BairdTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the range of sentence lengths is and what was the average sentence for(a) women and (b) male prisoners convicted of manslaughter. [55279]
§ Beverley HughesThe information requested, relating to persons sentenced for manslaughter in England and Wales in 2000, is contained in the table.
Statistics for 2001 will be published in the autumn.
Persons sentenced to immediate custody for manslaughter by gender and sentence length, England and Wales, 2000 Length of sentence Males1 Females1 Total1 Four months or under 1 — 1 Over four months up to six months — — — Over six months less than a year 1 — 1 Total under one year 2 — 2 One year 3 1 4 Over one year up to 18 months 4 1 5 Over 18 months up to two years 7 2 9 Over two years up to three years 26 7 33 Over three years less than four years 7 1 8 Total one year and under four years 47 12 59 Four years 28 5 33 Over four years up to five years 30 1 31 Over five years up to seven years 48 1 49 Over seven years up to 10 years 21 2 23 Over 10 years 4 — 4 Life 16 1 17 Total four years or over 147 10 157 Grand total 196 22 218 Average sentence length in months 61.9 46.3 60.2 1 Number of persons sentenced