Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of women of Muslim faith in prison on 1 October 2017.

According to published figures, as of 30 September 2017 there were 254 Muslim women in prison.

This is the closest published data to the requested date. We publish end of month prison population figures broken down by religion and sex quarterly, and the statistics can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2017.