Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each age group have been admitted to prison in each year since 2011.
Annual information on receptions of offenders into prison establishments in England and Wales is published routinely in the Annual Tables of the ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin’ and can be found in Table A2.4. Copies of the publication are available from the Library of the House and via the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305747/2013-Annual.zip