Prison Officers: Languages
Commons · Question 91035 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the prison population do not have (a) English and (b) another native UK languages as a first language in each of the last five years; and what languages such prisoners did speak as a first lang
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 21 Nov 2025
The information requested is not centrally recorded.Collecting it would involve a search of the records of each prisoner in England and Wales over the last five years. It could not, therefore, be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.