Official Statistics

HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2022 to 2023

This report provides statistics on offenders in prison and in the community 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 of MoJ Minister of state (prisons) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Head of National Litigation Team HMPPS Transgender Operational Framework Lead Head of the Women’s Operational Framework Lead Policy Officer (Women’s Team) Data Manager, Custodial Capacity Management Reducing Reoffending Team leader Joint Deputy Head Of Operational Policy Team Senior Diversity and Inclusion Manager Senior Policy Advisor, Operational Policy Special Advisor x 3 Press officers x 6 Director of Data and Analysis Deputy Director Prisoner Outcomes, Resettlement and Reoffending Division Deputy Director of Courts and People

Published 30 November 2023