Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 192389

Prisoners: Wales

Tabled: 4 July 2023

Answered: 10 July 2023

Named Day

Question

Liz Saville Roberts

Plaid Cymru — Dwyfor Meirionnydd

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison population rate per 100,000 people is in Wales.

Answer

Damian Hinds

The prison population per 100,000 people in Wales is 170 based on the population of prisons in Wales as at 31st March 2023, and the population of Wales as at 21st March 2021 from the latest census (noting footnotes 1-5 in attached Table 1).