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Written question asked by Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) on Tuesday, 21 January 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 23 January 2025. It was answered by Nicholas Dakin (Labour) on Wednesday, 29 January 2025 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prisoners: Wales

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with a home address in Wales before entering custody were held in prison under the security category of (a) Category A, (b) Category B, (c) Category C, (d) Category D and (e) Remand in (i) March 2024, (ii) June 2024, (iii) September 2024 and (iv) December 2024.

Answer

The requested information has been provided as an Excel file alongside this response. The dataset for December 2024 is a subset of data scheduled to be published as part of the Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK release and cannot be provided in advance of that publication.

Around 99% 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.

This information is included in the data provided in the tables attached. No address has been recorded and no court information is available for around 1% of all offenders; these figures are excluded from the tables attached.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
25280
Session
2024-26
Attachment
Table_attachment
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Prisoners Wales
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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