House of Lords written question – answered at on 11 November 2009.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners were held in prisons in England and Wales on 31 May in each of the past 12 years for which figures are available.
The table below gives the numbers of prisoners held in all prison establishments from 1998 to 2009 (latest available). The figures are taken from the published table 2.1 in Prison Statistics England and Wales 1998-2002; table 7.1 in Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2003-08 and table 1 in the Population in Custody June 2009.
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Prison Population in England and Wales 1998-2009 | |
Figures as at 30 June | |
1998 | 65,727 |
1999 | 64,529 |
2000 | 65,194 |
2001 | 66,403 |
2002 | 71,218 |
2003 | 73,657 |
2004 | 74,488 |
2005 | 76,190 |
2006 | 77,982 |
2007 | 79,734 |
2008 | 83,194 |
2009 | 83,454 |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
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