Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners per 100,000 people in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last six years.

The Government does not publish information on the number of prisoners per 100,000 people in England and Wales as part of its statistical releases.

However, figures covering the total prison population in England and Wales as at 30 June each year, broken down by establishment, can be found in Table A1.13 of the document “Prison Population: 30 June 2018” at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018

In addition, the Office for National Statistics publishes mid-year population estimates at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates