Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of what the prison population will be in (a) 2030 and (b) 2040.

The Ministry of Justice does not project the size of the prison population to 2030 and 2040.

Prison population projections for 2022-2027 were published on 23 February 2023: Prison_Population_Projections_2022_to_2027.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk).

Updated five-year prison population projections (2023 to 2028) are due to be released February 2024.