Official Statistics

HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2023 to March 2024

Range of detailed statistics and measures for prisons and probation

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

HMPPS Annual Digest 2023 to 2024

Chapter 1 Tables – Escapes Data Tool

Chapter 2 Tables – Prison crowding

Chapter 5 Tables – Prisoner earnings

Chapter 7 Tables – Protesting behaviour

Chapter 8 Tables – Finds in prison

Chapter 9 Tables – Incentives

Chapter 12 Tables – Staff in post

Details

Details

The HMPPS Annual Digest statistics cover performance data on prisoner escapes, absconds, temporary release failures and releases in error; Prison population and crowding; foreign and national offender referrals; Prisoner earnings; random mandatory drug testing; Protesting behaviour; Finds in prison; incentives and earned privileges; mother and baby units, pregnant prisoners and births; Community Accommodation Services; Staff in post.

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Updates to this page

Published 25 July 2024
Last updated 10 December 2024 + show all updates
  1. The total Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) applications, women and babies received into an MBU and mothers and babies in an MBU at year end in Table 10.1 for 2022/23 have been revised. The total Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) applications, numbers approved and refused, and women and babies received into an MBU in Table 10.1 for 2021/22 have also been revised. This corrects errors which were found due to manual data entry. The commentary has also been updated to include the revised figures.

  2. The total number of Mother and Baby Unit Applications in 10.1 for 2023/24 has been revised to remove an application which was included in error. The line showing the number of pregnant women in prison in Table 10.2 and the data showing the number of self-declared pregnant women in prison per month for 2023/24 in 10.3 were found to be inaccurate. This was due to the inclusion of some duplicate records, some erroneous records, and some records of pregnant women which should not have been included. These records have now been removed and all figures revised.

  3. First published.

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