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Prisons: Women

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 10 March 2025UIN 34091

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males are currently serving a custodial sentence in a women's prison.

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin

The latest published data on the placement of transgender prisoners (which covers transgender prisoners without gender recognition certificates, and is taken from a snapshot of the prison population on 31 March 2024), there were 2 or fewer transgender women housed within the women’s estate.

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