Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 3 November 2025.
Kieran Mullan
Shadow Minister (Justice)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide the prison population figures by (a) offence type and (b) sentence length in the most recent period for which data is available.
Jake Richards
Assistant Whip, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Detailed statistics on offenders in custody (including offence groups and sentence lengths) are published quarterly at Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK.
Answers to the specific questions asked here can be found on Table 1.A.17 of the “Annual Prison Population: 2025” table on the most recent release.
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