Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of incarcerated males who come from single-mother households as of 23 November 2023.

The information requested is not routinely collected, and could not be made available without incurring disproportionate cost.

A study carried out in 2012 provides information about prisoners’ family circumstances as children, though this is not disaggregated to the level requested. It can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c543de5274a1b00423088/prisoners-childhood-family-backgrounds.pdf.