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<p>111 women who were held at HMP Styal during the 2017-18 financial year had a reported
North Wales address and are recorded as having children. The data from Prison-NOMIS,
the system from which this information was obtained, only records if the prisoner
has children (as of today) and does not state how old the children are or if they
are dependents.</p><p>Our female offender strategy set out a dedicated approach to
supporting female offenders and I am determined to build on this by shifting focus
away from prisons to women’s centres with a range of support services, including for
substance misuse and mental health problems.</p><p>We are investing an additional
£5 million over two years on community provision so that, where appropriate, women
are given the support they need to address their offending and turn away from a life
of crime. Work is also ongoing to improve the quality pre-sentence reports to ensure
that sentencers are made aware and can take account of whether an offender is a primary
carer.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note</strong>:</p><ul><li>North Wales has been defined
as having a reported address within the local authorities of: Anglesey; Conwy; Denbighshire;
Flintshire; Gwynedd; and Wrexham.</li><li>Around 97% of prisoners have an origin location
- i.e. addresses that are recorded in our central IT system. If no address is given,
an offender’s committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they
are resident.</li><li>This information is included in the data provided in the answer
above.</li><li>Those with no recorded origin are typically foreign nationals or those
recently received into custody.</li><li>No address has been recorded and no court
information is available for around 3% of all offenders; these figures are excluded
from the figure above.</li></ul>
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