Ministry of Justice · ODS · annual · England and Wales
Offender management statistics quarterly: annual prison population tables
Published each July with the January-to-March quarterly release (2026 edition: 30 July 2026, "Prison Population annual: data to 30 June 2026"). Table 1.A.1 carries month-end prison population snapshots from 30 June 2015 to the latest 30 June. Each edition restates the whole series, so a new edition is a new vintage for every month.
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- Annual prison population: 2026 (data to 30 June 2026), published 30 July 2026
- Next scheduled
- 29 July 2027 (official date)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/moj_prison_population_annual.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prison population at month end, 2015 onwards | Table_1_A_1 · Table 1.A.1 | Male and female | people |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2026 | Annual prison population: 2026 (data to 30 June 2026) | 133 | prison-population-2026.ods sha256 6a3903869a9d3b5a… |