Justice written question – answered at on 7 September 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners serving sentences on the latest date for which figures are available were born (a) in the UK and (b) outside the UK.
The Ministry of Justice does not record a prisoner's place of birth, only their nationality, which is self declared. As at June 2010, the most recent available data, there were 71,016 British nationals and 11,135 foreign nationals in prison (plus a further 2,851 had no nationality recorded).
The number of foreign national prisoners held in all prison establishments in England and Wales by nationality is published quarterly in the population in custody bulletin, found under the following link:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm
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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