Prisoners: Religion

(asked on 17th April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many religious conversions of prisoners have taken place in 2024-25; and to which religions.


Answered by
Nicholas Dakin Portrait
Nicholas Dakin
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 29th April 2025

While we collate details of religious affiliation recorded when prisoners enter custody, in order to establish the number of conversions, we would need to undertake a search of individual records, and this could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.

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