Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 17583

Prisoners: Wales

Tabled: 3 December 2024
Answered: 9 December 2024

Question

Tonia Antoniazzi

LabourGower

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department holds data on Welsh prisoners by (a) sex, (b) ethnicity, (c) socio-economic background, (d) offence type, (e) sentence type and (f) local authority.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) cannot identify Welsh prisoners because English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish nationalities are not captured separately on the central data system. UK nationals are all recorded as British.HMPPS can provide da...

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