Prisons: Religion

(asked on 1st December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether there is capability in the Prison and Probation Service incident reporting system to categorise a prison incident as faith or ideology related; and if not, how the Prison and Probation Service collects data on prison incidents that are motivated by faith or ideology at a local and national level.


Answered by
Lord Timpson Portrait
Lord Timpson
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 9th December 2025

His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service does not hold a central record of whether prison incidents are motivated by faith or ideology. If a prison identifies that an incident was motivated by such a factor, this will be managed locally. Terrorist offenders are managed through a specialist, multi-agency process, which assesses offenders in terms of their individual risk.

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