HC Deb 23 July 2004 vol 424 cc841-2W
Mr. Clifton-Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many three strike rule burglaries there were in the last year for which figures are available; how many resulted in a prison sentence; and what the average period was prior to remission. [182911]

Paul Goggins

The number of persons sentenced in 2002 under the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 has been published in Criminal Statistics England and Wales 2002, Table 4G. The corresponding average sentence imposed by the courts is three years.