§ Julie MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of women in the prison population are from Wales; and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last five years. [22185]
§ Beverley HughesInformation is provided on the basis of a prisoner's court of committal as home address is not consistently recorded on central records.
The information requested is given in the table1
Total females Females committed in Wales Percentage of female population committed in Wales 1998 3,120 119 3.8 1999 3,207 119 3.7 2000 3,355 126 3.8 2001 3,713 138 3.7 1 The information in the table is provisional and shows data as of 30 June each year for prisons in England and Wales. Data for 1997 were not available. For the latest date available (30 November 2001) there were 169 female prisoners in prisons in England and Wales who were committed in Wales. There were 4,022 female prisoners in total.