Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the number of veterans in prison.

As per the statistics in the “Ex-service Personnel in the prison population: 2023” publication included at the following link, an estimated 3.6% of the prison population were ex-service personnel as of 30 June 2023: Offender Management Statistics quarterly: April to June 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).