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Prisoners: Childbirth

Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 228258, tabled on 18 March 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many babies were born to women in prison in each year since 2010.

Answered on

23 March 2015

Information on the number of women who have given birth in prison is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. To provide this information, a manual search of every female prisoner’s record would be required.

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