Prisoners: Gender Recognition

(asked on 23rd November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish information about the number of trans people in prison.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 26th November 2015

As my Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation, committed to the House on 20 November, my Department will publish data on the number of trans people in prison in due course.

While the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not currently have complete information, work is in hand and Ministers are currently receiving advice on the best way to collect this data whilst complying with our legal duties under both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act.

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