HMPPS Annual Digest Reveals Key Statistics for 2024-2025
The HMPPS Annual Digest for the period from April 2024 to March 2025 offers a detailed account of various performance statistics concerning prisons and probation services in the UK. This report encompasses critical data points such as escapes, absconds, failures to return from Release on Temporary License (ROTL), and releases in error. It also addresses prison crowding, earnings of prisoners under the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996, random mandatory drug testing, and incidents of protesting behavior within facilities.
Additionally, the report highlights the management of Mother and Baby Units, the conditions of pregnant prisoners, and the number of births that occur in custody. The Community Accommodation Service and staffing levels within the prison system are also covered, providing a holistic view of the operational landscape.
In terms of data integrity, this update includes several revisions due to errors identified in previous reports. Notably, the births data for 2024-25 and the pregnant prisoners and births data for 2022-23 have been corrected. Furthermore, prison crowding data for HMP Usk from 2013-14 to 2017-18 has been revised, along with the 2024-25 crowding data, following a reconciliation exercise linked to a new automatic data collection system.
Pre-release access to this digest is granted to several key officials within the Ministry of Justice, including the Lord Chancellor, the Minister of State for Prisons, and various senior policy advisors. This ensures that relevant stakeholders are informed of the latest statistics and can make data-driven decisions regarding prison and probation management.
