Prisoners: Women

(asked on 27th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many women currently in prison have been sentenced to a term of (1) less than 4 weeks, (2) 4 to 8 weeks, (3) 8 to 12 weeks, (4) 3 to 6 months, (5) 6 to 12 months and (6) over 12 months.


Answered by
Lord Timpson Portrait
Lord Timpson
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 10th November 2025

The information requested is provided below.

Table 1: Number of female prisoners on remand and sentenced on 30 September 2025

Custody type

Remand

972

Sentenced

2,535

Table 2: Number of female prisoners serving determinate sentences broken down by sentence length on 30 September 2025(1)

Sentence length

Less than 4 weeks

4

4 weeks to less than 8 weeks

3

8 weeks to less than 12 weeks

43

3 months to less than or equal to 6 months

136(2)

More than 6 months to less than 12 months

149

12 months and over

1,327

Notes

  1. The figures in this table exclude recalled prisoners, as well as non-criminal prisoners and those serving indeterminate sentences.

  1. In order to provide complete data, this figure includes a prisoner serving more than 12 weeks but less than 3 months.

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