Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women currently in prison were resident in Greater Manchester at the time of receiving a custodial sentence.

Of the female prison population held in prisons in England and Wales on 31 December 2017 there were 171 who had a recorded origin address in Greater Manchester.

Around 97% of prisoners have an origin location - i.e. addresses that are recorded in our central IT system. If no address is given, an offender’s committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident. Those with no recorded origin are typically foreign nationals or those recently received into custody. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders. If there are any, these figures will have been excluded from the data.

The numerical information provided has been drawn from administrative IT systems, which as with any large scale recording system are subject to possible error with data entry and processing.