Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people in prison or a Young Offenders Institute self-describe their ethnicity as Romany.

This information is published in Table 1_A_21 of the Offender Management Statistics ‘annual’ prison population tables.

As of 30 June 2025, the most recent date for which statistics are available, 79 of those in custody described their ethnicity as Roma.

To note, the ‘Roma’ ethnicity code is a recent addition to the prison offender management system, and the ‘as at 30 June 2025’ data is the first publication of these figures. As such, we would expect numbers to increase over time as new prisoners entering the system are able to self-identify as ‘Roma’.