Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former armed service personnel who have declared their membership of those services are serving a sentence in each prison in South Wales.

In October 2018, the Department published Experimental Statistics release estimating the numbers of ex-service personnel in the prison population (next release due October 2019). This new analysis indicated that there were 2,032 prisoners as at 30 June 2018 who had declared as ‘ex-service personnel’ when they were first received into custody between January 2015 and June 2018. Of these, the number serving a prison sentence in all prisons in Wales as at 30 June 2018 were:

Prisoners who choose to identify as veterans are given access to specialist support, this includes support for issues such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, that may affect them following their service. Additional support can be offered by military service charities working with prisons and rehabilitation services.