Written questions

Prisoners: Religion

Commons · Question 26201 · Tabled 1 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 4 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners converted to a new religion while in prison in the past three years, broken down (a) by the ethnicity of the prisoner, and (b) the religion they were converting to and from.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 4 Sep 2026

To provide the information requested, it would be necessary manually to examine individual prisoner records for the period in question, to ascertain whether any changes to data collected electronically related to instances of conversion, or were made for ...