Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were known to be pregnant while on remand or serving a sentence in HMP Eastwood Park in each quarter from 31 March 2015 to 30 September 2020 (a) in total and (b) by ethnicity.

Prior to July 2020 pregnancy data was collected locally by individual prisons, we are in the process of retrieving data from the establishment and quality assuring the information requested. As soon as verified data is available, I will write to the Honourable Member.

As of last summer, internal national data collection processes have been in place to enable us to plan for future publication. In July 2020 we published a summary report of our review of operational policy on pregnancy and women separated from children under 2. This included an undertaking to extend the range of data we publish in relation to pregnant women in prison, and can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf