Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 85607

Prisoners: Transgender People

Tabled: 27 October 2025
Answered: 4 November 2025

Question

Rebecca Paul

ConservativeReigate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2022-2023, published on 30 November 2023, how many of the 225 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male were convicted of a sexual

Answer

Jake Richards
Of the 225 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male, 126 had been convicted of a sexual offence: this includes both contact and non-contact sexual offences. Offence data were not available for ten individuals.HMPPS’s allocation policy...

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