Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving in category (a) C and (b) D prisons have been in custody for 10 years or longer as of 21 June 2023.

We are unable to provide data on the number of people serving in category C and D prisons who have been in custody for 10 years or longer as of 21 June 2023 at this time. This is because they are exempt from disclosure under statistics publication rules outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics; as they will form a subset of future published statistics.

Data relating to 21 June would need to be extracted from information which will be used to form the next Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication which is scheduled for release on 27 July 2023.