Official Statistics

HM Prison and Probation Service Offender Equalities Annual Report 2021 to 2022

This report provides statistics on offenders in prison and in the community and their protected characteristics.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Chapter 1 tables: Prison population

Chapter 2 tables: Transgender prisoners

Chapter 3 tables: Mother and baby units

Chapter 4 tables: Incentives

Details

Details

The Equality Act 2010 lists 9 Protected Characteristics:

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Race
  • Disability
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Religion or Belief
  • Gender Reassignment
  • Marriage/Civil Partnership
  • Pregnancy/Maternity

This report focuses on those protected characteristics where data are collected, and are of sufficient quality for statistics to be meaningful. In general, this report is limited to analysis on sex, age, race (ethnicity) and religious belief for these reasons. Where data are available for other protected characteristics at sufficient quality and with sufficient coverage to be meaningful, they are also presented and considered.

The report presents some analysis by individual characteristic and is meant to serve as a guide for further research. In many cases, more than one factor (e.g. age and another protected characteristic, criminal history, socio-economic) may have an effect on an outcome.

Pre-release

The HMPPS Offender Equalities Report is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: 2 x Chief Press officer, 1 x Deputy Director HMPPS Women’s Team, 1 x Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and SoS of MoJ, 1 x Director General for Performance Strategy and Analysis, 1 x Director General for Policy and Strategy Group, 1 x Deputy Director, Head of Insights & Analysis, 1 x Deputy Director, Data and Evidence as a Service: Prison, Probation and Reoffending, 1 x Head of News, 1 x HMCTS Director, 1 x Minister of State, 1 x Operational researcher, 1 x Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, 4 x Policy advisor, 2 x Press Officer, 1 x Principle research officer, 2 x Senior Press Officer, 3 x Special Advisor, 5 x Statistician

Updates to this page

Published 24 November 2022

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