HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2023 to 2024
This report provides statistics on offenders in prison and their protected characteristics.
Applies to England and Wales
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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:
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Permanent Secretary, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Director General Policy (Prisons, Offenders and International Justice), Director of Analysis, Strategy Advisor (Reducing Re-offending Strategy), MoJ Chief statistician, Head of National Litigation Team, Policy Officer (Pregnancy, MBUs and Maternal Separation), Deputy Head (Disparities Group), HMPPS Chief Psychologist, Principal Psychologist, Senior Policy Advisor (Operational Policy) (Reducing Reoffending), Senior Press Officer, Chief Press Officer, Press Officer, Deputy Director of Courts and People and Head of Criminal Justice System Statistics, Head of Equalities and Statistical Methodology Team, Head of Prisons Data, Statistician(x3)