Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
Commons · Question 66575 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Carolyn Harris
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the context of children under the age of two who are separated from their mothers in prison, if she will publish (a) a list of types of setting in which those children are looked after and (b) the (i) number a
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 17 Jul 2025
Data on the number of babies accommodated in Mother and Baby Units (MBUs) in England is published at Table 10.1 of the HMPPS Annual Digest 2023-2024:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2023-to-march-2024/hmpps-annual-digest-...