Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will collate statistics on the religious affiliations of the prison population.

Statistics on the religious affiliations of the prison population are published as part of the department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly release.

The most recent data (based on the prison population as at 30 September 2019) can be found in Table 1.5 at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/842604/Population_Q2_2019.xlsx