Prison Accommodation
(asked on 2nd September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison population was on 30 June in each year since 1997; and how many of those prisoners were in (a) public and (b) private prisons.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) publishes monthly individual prison population and capacity information through the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics
The table below sets out the prison population as at 30th June in each year since 1997 and identifies how many of these prisoners were held in public and private sector prisons and Young Offender Institutions.
Date | Number of prisoners held in privately managed prisons & YOIs | Number of prisoners held in public sector prisons & YOIs | Total Prison Population |
30/06/1997 | 1735 | 59011 | 60746 |
30/06/1998 | 4170 | 61160 | 65330 |
30/06/1999 | 4475 | 59745 | 64220 |
30/06/2000 | 5600 | 59542 | 65142 |
30/06/2001 | 6465 | 60213 | 66678 |
30/06/2002 | 7602 | 63530 | 71132 |
30/06/2003 | 7956 | 65488 | 73444 |
30/06/2004 | 7179 | 66968 | 74147 |
30/06/2005 | 7708 | 68088 | 75796 |
30/06/2006 | 8443 | 69147 | 77590 |
30/06/2007 | 9004 | 70310 | 79314 |
30/06/2008 | 9489 | 73257 | 82746 |
30/06/2009 | 9391 | 73554 | 82945 |
30/06/2010 | 9841 | 74734 | 84575 |
30/06/2011 | 10299 | 74442 | 84741 |
30/06/2012 | 13674 | 71644 | 85318 |
30/06/2013 | 14394 | 68616 | 83010 |
30/06/2014 | 15246 | 69361 | 84607 |
30/06/2015 | 15905 | 69051 | 84956 |
30/06/2016 | 15949 | 68363 | 84312 |
30/06/2017 | 16818 | 68229 | 85047 |
30/06/2018 | 16252 | 66195 | 82447 |
30/06/2019 | 16077 | 66378 | 82455 |
The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
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