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<p>Pregnancy data is collected and monitored locally by individual prisons to ensure
the appropriate support can be provided to women in our care, whether women are on
remand or sentenced.</p><p>I can confirm that an ad hoc data collection exercise was
undertaken on the 28 January 2021 which indicates that the number of women known to
be pregnant whilst on remand or serving a sentence in HMP Styal on 31 March 2020 and
30 June 2020 was fewer than three on each date. As the overall number is fewer than
three and releasing the actual number would risk identification of individuals, it
is not possible to give any more information about ethnicity, for the same reason.</p><p>On
31 July we published a summary report of our review of operational policy on pregnancy
and women separated from children under 2. This includes an undertaking to extend
the range of data we publish in relation to pregnant women in prison, and can be found
at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf</a>.</p><p>We
have already taken steps to increase our internal national data collection processes
to support the policy review, and to enable us to plan for future publication.</p>
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