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Written question asked by Lord Mann (Labour) on Friday, 2 July 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 6 July 2010. It was answered by Crispin Blunt (Conservative) on Monday, 12 July 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prisons: Population

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people he expects will be in prison in each of the next three years.
Answer

The Ministry of Justice produces annual projections of the prison population in England and Wales, most recently in August 2009. These project the prison population under three different scenarios (high, medium and low), based on different assumptions about future sentencing trends. The projected populations in the next three years (at the end of June) are in the following table. Although the published prison population projections did not anticipate the change in March 2010, the figures provided here incorporate the impact of the ending of End of Custody Licence (ECL).

Projected prison population (end of June figures)
High Medium Low
2011 89,800 88,100 86,100
2012 91,400 88,900 86,100
2013 92,300 88,800 85,200

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
6607; 513 c591W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Prisoners Prisons Population
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk