Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 6291

Prisoners: Children

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Rebecca Long Bailey

LabourSalford

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to support the children of people who are imprisoned.

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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