Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate his Department has made of the imprisonment rate in Wales.

The Ministry of Justice does not publish information on the imprisonment rate in Wales as part of its statistical releases.

However, figures covering the total prison population in England and Wales as at 30 June each year, broken down by establishment, can be found in Table A1.13 of the document “Annual Prison Population: 2021” at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021

In addition, the Office for National Statistics publishes mid-year population estimates at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates