Prisoners
Lords · Question HL79 · Tabled 17 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 31 Jul 2024
Question
Asked by Lord Rennard
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the adult population were held in prison on 1 January; whether they have carried out any comparison with other European countries; and, if so, what European countries they have benchmarked those figures
Answer
Answered by Lord Timpson, 31 Jul 2024
The adult prison population in England and Wales as of 31 December 2023 was 87,227. It is not possible to robustly estimate the proportion of the adult population of England and Wales this represented at that time, because population estimates beyond mid-...