Askham Grange Prison: Pregnancy

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in each ethnic group were known to be pregnant while on remand or serving a sentence in HMP Askham Grange in each quarter from 31 March 2015 to 30 September 2020.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

From July 2016 to date there have been six women known to be pregnant whilst residing at HMP Askham Grange. There were three women who declared their ethnicity as white, and three women who declared themselves as mixed ethnicity.

As part of our fundamental review of policy relating to pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to 2 in prison, we have committed to providing national pregnancy data in future. Further information on the review, including our findings and resulting reforms regarding data collection, can be found in our summary report published in July 2020: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf

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