Written questions

Prisoners: Travellers

Lords · Question HL14086 · Tabled 28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 3 Feb 2026

Question

Asked by Baroness Whitaker

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Timpson on 26 January (HL13694), why prisoners from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are not recorded in the table attached to that Answer.

Answer

Answered by Lord Timpson, 3 Feb 2026

In accordance with the Office of National Statistics Census definitions (also reflected within the more detailed prisoner ethnicity data published as part of our Offender Management Statistics “Prison Population” annual tables), the 'Irish Traveller or Gy...