Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to regularly publish data on prison (a) population and (b) changes.

Prison population figures are published weekly at Prison population figures: 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). This publication also shows the operational capacity of the prison system as well as the weekly change.

The monthly reports at the same link also provide further population information broken down by prison.

Detailed quarterly statistics on offenders in custody (including offence groups, sentence lengths and nationalities) can be found at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).