Barry Sheerman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has conducted on the effect on children of the imprisonment of their mothers.

Caroline Dinenage

The Ministry of Justice has recently published statistics on child dependents of female offenders (located at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/female-offenders-and-child-dependents) but has not specifically conducted research on the impact of imprisonment on children.