Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 6290

Prisoners: Children

Tabled: 4 October 2024

Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Rebecca Long Bailey

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have (a) parents and (b) guardians who are imprisoned; and how many of those children are living without an adult guardian.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

The Government recently published the first official statistics to estimate the number of children affected by parental imprisonment using administrative government data. It's estimated that between 1 October 2021 and 1 October 2022 there were around 193,...

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