Prisoners: Parents
Commons · Question 901379 · Tabled 9 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 15 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Kerry McCarthy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of children with a parent in prison.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 15 Sep 2026
In the year ending October 2024, around 219,000 children were estimated to have a parent in prison in England and Wales. For too long, there has been no systematic mechanism to recognise children with a parent in prison, which is why we are testing how ch...