Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adjudications were received by women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, or (2) 26 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.
The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prison rule-breaking have consequences. The Ministry of Justice monitors adjudication outcomes by offence, age, gender, ethnicity, religion and adjudicator, this data is published quarterly and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.
The specific information requested can be found in the table attached. The information is provided by the age groupings of (1) 18-25 and (2) 26 and over, to provide full data to answer the question.
Number of adjudications outcomes for women and specific age group, 2012 - 2021, England and Wales
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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18-25 | 2,655 | 2,002 | 2,140 | 2,326 | 1,929 | 2,680 | 2,645 | 2,248 | 1,739 | 1,750 |
26 and over | 4,720 | 4,589 | 4,996 | 5,667 | 6,348 | 7,817 | 8,834 | 8,720 | 6,450 | 6,034 |
Data sources and quality
The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Source: PQ HL532, Prison NOMIS System, (Ministry of Justice; Data and Analysis, Directorate)