Official Statistics

HM Prison and Probation Service Offender Equalities Annual Report 2020 to 2021

This report provides statistics on offenders in prison and in the community and their protected characteristics.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Guide to HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2020 to 2021

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Chapter 1 tables: Prison population

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Chapter 2 tables: Transgender prisoners

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Chapter 3 tables: Mother and baby units

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Chapter 4 tables: Incentives

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Chapter 5 tables: Accredited programmes in custody

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Chapter 6 tables: Electronic Monitoring

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Chapter 7 tables: Completion of Community Orders (COs) and Suspended Sentence Orders (SSOs)

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Chapter 8 tables: Breaches of Community Orders (COs) and Suspended Sentence Orders (SSOs)

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Details

Revision

A revision was made on 20th January 2022 to add the volume of prisoners holding a Gender Recognition Certificate.

Details

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:

  • Assistant Private Secretary x 3
  • Chief Financial officer, Ministry of Justice
  • Chief Press Officer x 4
  • Operational Research Analyst
  • Data Manager, Custodial Capacity Management
  • Deputy Director , Data and Evidence as a Service: Courts and People
  • Deputy Director, Service Improvement Group
  • Deputy Head of News
  • Deputy Private Secretary x 2
  • Director General Probation and Wales
  • Director General, PCAG
  • Director of Analytical Services
  • Director Security, Order & Counter Terrorism
  • Divisional Director - Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing, Diversity, Inclusion and wellbeing
  • Senior Contract Manager, Operations
  • Equalities Advisor, Diversity & Inclusion
  • Equality Manager, National Probation Service
  • Executive Director Public Sector Prisons South
  • Executive Director, Strategy, Planning and Performance Directorate
  • Executive Officer - Contracts and Offender Equalities, Contracts and Offender Equalities Statistics
  • Group Reducing Reoffending Lead
  • Head of Contracts and Offender Equalities, Contracts and Offender Equalities Statistics
  • Head of Belonging, Wellbeing and Inclusion
  • Head of Contract Management – Electronic Monitoring
  • Head of Cross-Cutting Performance
  • Head of Electronic Monitoring Operations
  • Head of Equalities and Lammy Equalities
  • Head of Health and Justice Partnership Policy, Offender Health in the Community
  • Head of HMPPS Performance - Data and Evidence as a service
  • Head of HMPPS probation equalities
  • Head of HMPPS Women’s Team
  • Head of HR ARM in HR Analysis, Reporting and Modelling
  • Head of News, External Communication Deputy Director, Head of News, Ministry of Justice
  • Head of Prison Diversity and Inclusion
  • Head of Prison Safety and Security Statistics
  • Head of Regime and Operational Policy Team
  • Head of Security Procedures Team
  • Head of Service Improvement - Prisons
  • Head of Special Projects, Probation and Wales
  • Head of Transgender Operational Framework
  • HMT, MfE Private Office
  • Interim Director General for the Policy and Strategy Group.
  • Interim Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice
  • Interim Private Secreatary to the Minister for Women and Equalities
  • Joint Acting Head of Profession (Statistics)
  • Joint Deputy Head of Operational Policy Team
  • Lead Psychologist, North East
  • Operations Manager
  • Permanent Secretary office
  • Policy Advisor x 5
  • Policy official, Operational Services and Interventions
  • Press Officer, Ministry of Justice
  • Prison Group Director, London Prison Group
  • Prison Safety and Security Statistics
  • Prisons Group Director
  • Prisons Statistics Team Leader, Prisons team
  • Private Secretary x 5
  • Quality and Effectiveness Lead
  • Senior Policy Advisor x 2
  • Senior Press Officer x 3
  • Senior Principal Research Officer
  • Senior Statistical Officer
  • Special Adviser GEO
  • Team Leader - Probation, ReoffendingStatistics
Published 25 November 2021
Last updated 20 January 2022 + show all updates
  1. Revision: A revision was made on 20th January 2022 to add the volume of prisoners holding a Gender Recognition Certificate.

  2. Pre-announcement of revision: At 09:30 on Thursday 20th January 2022 there will be a revision to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2020 to 2021. This revision will include the publication of the total number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates.

  3. First published.