Prisoners: Wales
(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of Welsh people in prison based on home address prior to entering custody by establishment for each year between 2007 and 2012.
This information can only be provided from 2009 onwards. The available data can be found in table form below.
Date | Number of prisoners with a Welsh Origin Address |
May-09 | 4,292 |
May-10 | 4,455 |
May-11 | 4,466 |
May-12 | 4,662 |
It is not possible to infer from an address in Wales that an individual considers themselves Welsh or English. HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) cannot identify English and Welsh prisoners. Someone with an address, for example in London, may consider themselves to be Welsh, while someone with an address in Wales may not. UK nationals have a nationality of British. Therefore, the data shown are not necessarily representative of those who identify as English or Welsh. English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish are not captured on our database as separate nationalities.