Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) operational capacity and (b) population is at each women’s prison.

The total population and capacity of the prison estate are published weekly at Prison population statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The population and capacity of each individual prison, including each women’s prison, are published monthly at the same link. The operational capacity and population of each women’s prison as of Friday 25 November 2022 – the latest date for which figures are available – are shown in the table below: