Prisoners: Personal Names

(asked on 15th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for each different surname held by at least one prisoner, how many individual prisoners hold that surname across the prison estate, and likewise for each different first name.


Answered by
Catherine McKinnell Portrait
Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 13th October 2026

To provide accurate data in response to this request, it would be necessary to undertake an extensive verification exercise, which could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.

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