Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with a home address in Wales before entering custody were in prison for the offence type of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, and (f) drug offences, in (i) March 2024, (ii) June 2024, (iii) September 2024 and (iv) December 2024.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
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.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people resident in Wales prior to entering custody, were in prison (a) on remand, (b) sentenced to under 12 months, (c) sentenced to between 12 months and 4 years, (d) sentenced to 4 years and over, in (i) March 2024, (ii) June 2024, (iii) September 2024, and (iv) December 2024.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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. In addition, the numbers 1 and 2 have been replaced with the symbol ‘≤2’ to avoid any risk of individual identification.
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.
It is also important to stress that ithe data shown are not necessarily representative of those who identify as English or Welsh. The results are sorted by origin address (home address on reception into custody) and not nationality.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people resident in Wales prior to entering custody, were held in prison across England and Wales by (a) each local authority area and (b) prison in (i) March 2024, (ii) June 2024, (iii) September 2024 and (iv) December 2024.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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. In addition, the numbers 1 and 2 have been replaced with the symbol ‘≤2’ to avoid any risk of individual identification.
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.
It is also important to stress that ithe data shown are not necessarily representative of those who identify as English or Welsh. The results are sorted by origin address (home address on reception into custody) and not nationality.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with a home address in Wales prior to entering custody were in prison in (a) March, (b) June, (c) September and (d) December 2024 by prison.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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. In addition, the numbers 1 and 2 have been replaced with the symbol ‘≤2’ to avoid any risk of individual identification.
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.
It is also important to stress that ithe data shown are not necessarily representative of those who identify as English or Welsh. The results are sorted by origin address (home address on reception into custody) and not nationality.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people resident in Wales prior to entering custody were (a) serving an IPP sentence, (b) sentenced to life imprisonment, (c) on recall, (d) serving a non-criminal sentence and (e) serving an unknown sentence in (i) March 2024, (ii) June 2024, (iii) September 2024 and (iv) December 2024.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
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. In addition, the numbers 1 and 2 have been replaced with the symbol ‘≤2’ to avoid any risk of individual identification.
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.
It is also important to stress that ithe data shown are not necessarily representative of those who identify as English or Welsh. The results are sorted by origin address (home address on reception into custody) and not nationality.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of routinely publishing disaggregated data for Wales.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice recognises the value of routinely publishing disaggregated data for Wales. This is important for the effective delivery of justice.
The Ministry of Justice already collects, disaggregates and routinely publishes a wealth of data for Wales, including headline data on prison population (for example by age, offence group and ethnicity, and whether on remand or sentenced) and headline safety in custody data (for example deaths, self-harm and assaults on staff). We routinely publish a variety of probation data too, for example numbers of offenders starting community orders, accommodation, and employment activity. In addition, nearly all published courts and tribunals data is available for England and Wales separately.
In line with our approach to all our statistical publications, we continue to keep the content under review.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people released on home detention curfew were recalled to prison in (a) Wales and (b) England in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
We have provided the requested information in the Tables 1 and 2 below.
Data on total HDC recalls from 2015 onwards can be found in Table 1. A further breakdown of HDC recalls prior to 2015 could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Table 1: Recalls from Home Detention Curfew to prisons in England and prisons in Wales, 2015 to 2023
Year | England | Wales |
2015 | 551 | 19 |
2016 | 523 | 13 |
2017 | 582 | 40 |
2018 | 1,575 | 93 |
2019 | 2,296 | 142 |
2020 | 2,040 | 154 |
2021 | 1,503 | 117 |
2022 | 1,284 | 92 |
2023 | 1,304 | 65 |
Data sources and quality
The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Methodological note
Recall data presented here are calculated on the basis of those who were recalled (and subsequently returned to custody) in this period, how many were on HDC. This is different to the method used in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly which looks at the number released to HDC who were later recalled. Numbers will therefore not be comparable.
Source: Prison NOMIS
Table 2: HDC releases from prisons in England and prisons in Wales, 2004 to 2023
Year | England | Wales |
2004 | 18,514 | 781 |
2005 | 16,586 | 710 |
2006 | 13,157 | 509 |
2007 | 11,063 | 365 |
2008 | 11,403 | 318 |
2009 | 11,144 | 390 |
2010 | 11,915 | 335 |
2011 | 12,364 | 363 |
2012 | 12,330 | 473 |
2013 | 9,958 | 461 |
2014 | 8,228 | 386 |
2015 | 8,236 | 375 |
2016 | 8,613 | 429 |
2017 | 8,773 | 547 |
2018 | 13,699 | 1,070 |
2019 | 11,854 | 978 |
2020 | 9,884 | 905 |
2021 | 8,575 | 818 |
2022 | 7,950 | 781 |
2023 | 7,213 | 707 |
Data sources and quality
The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Source: Prison NOMIS
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were released on home detention curfew in (a) Wales and (b) England in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
We have provided the requested information in the Tables 1 and 2 below.
Data on total HDC recalls from 2015 onwards can be found in Table 1. A further breakdown of HDC recalls prior to 2015 could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Table 1: Recalls from Home Detention Curfew to prisons in England and prisons in Wales, 2015 to 2023
Year | England | Wales |
2015 | 551 | 19 |
2016 | 523 | 13 |
2017 | 582 | 40 |
2018 | 1,575 | 93 |
2019 | 2,296 | 142 |
2020 | 2,040 | 154 |
2021 | 1,503 | 117 |
2022 | 1,284 | 92 |
2023 | 1,304 | 65 |
Data sources and quality
The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Methodological note
Recall data presented here are calculated on the basis of those who were recalled (and subsequently returned to custody) in this period, how many were on HDC. This is different to the method used in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly which looks at the number released to HDC who were later recalled. Numbers will therefore not be comparable.
Source: Prison NOMIS
Table 2: HDC releases from prisons in England and prisons in Wales, 2004 to 2023
Year | England | Wales |
2004 | 18,514 | 781 |
2005 | 16,586 | 710 |
2006 | 13,157 | 509 |
2007 | 11,063 | 365 |
2008 | 11,403 | 318 |
2009 | 11,144 | 390 |
2010 | 11,915 | 335 |
2011 | 12,364 | 363 |
2012 | 12,330 | 473 |
2013 | 9,958 | 461 |
2014 | 8,228 | 386 |
2015 | 8,236 | 375 |
2016 | 8,613 | 429 |
2017 | 8,773 | 547 |
2018 | 13,699 | 1,070 |
2019 | 11,854 | 978 |
2020 | 9,884 | 905 |
2021 | 8,575 | 818 |
2022 | 7,950 | 781 |
2023 | 7,213 | 707 |
Data sources and quality
The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Source: Prison NOMIS
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) community sentences, (b) deferred sentences, (c) conditional discharges and (d) custodial sentences have been given in (i) Wales and (ii) England in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences given at criminal courts in England and Wales between January 2010 and June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
The attached table provides the requested breakdown of sentences for England (Tab 1) and Wales (Tab 2) for the requested time period 2004 to 2009.