Prisoners: Wales
Commons · Question 27981 · Tabled 8 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Liz Saville Roberts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average proportion of sentence served was by Welsh prisoners, based on home address, in custody in 2025, by ethnic group.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 17 Sep 2026
Centrally collated prison releases data only allows for "average proportion of sentence" to be readily estimated for those released from determinate sentences and this calculation may also include time spent in the community on bail. Therefore, ...