Prisoners
(asked on 10th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the trends in the prison population of (a) male and (b) female prisoners over the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
The table below contains annual male and female prison population as at 30 June each year since 2010.
Date | Males | Females | Total |
30-Jun-10 | 80,735 | 4,267 | 85,002 |
30-Jun-11 | 81,189 | 4,185 | 85,374 |
30-Jun-12 | 81,925 | 4,123 | 86,048 |
30-Jun-13 | 79,989 | 3,853 | 83,842 |
30-Jun-14 | 81,580 | 3,929 | 85,509 |
30-Jun-15 | 82,289 | 3,904 | 86,193 |
30-Jun-16 | 81,272 | 3,862 | 85,134 |
30-Jun-17 | 81,856 | 4,007 | 85,863 |
30-Jun-18 | 78,970 | 3,803 | 82,773 |
30-Jun-19 | 78,940 | 3,770 | 82,710 |
The data are based on snapshots and do not provide an indication of all prisoners who have entered custody within the timescales shown. The data are derived from the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) which is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
All data shown are based on the prison population at 30 June of each representative year. This tool has been designed for high level analytical purposes only. The detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. While the figures shown have been checked as far as practicable, they should be regarded as approximate and not necessarily accurate to the last whole number shown in the tables. They are fit to be used for comparing the relative magnitude of components.
We keep the prison population and capacity under careful review to ensure that there are always sufficient spaces for those sentenced to custody.
In August the Prime Minister announced an investment of up to £2.5bn to transform the prison estate and provide 10,000 additional prison places, on top of the 3,360 already being delivered at Wellingborough and Glen Parva.