Prisoners: Veterans
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the number of veterans in prison.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
As per the statistics in the “Ex-service Personnel in the prison population: 2023” publication included at the following link, an estimated 3.6% of the prison population were ex-service personnel as of 30 June 2023: Offender Management Statistics quarterly: April to June 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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