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<p>Information relating to the criminal history of the current prison population is
not held centrally and would require linking data sets. The requested information,
therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department
does, however, publish similar statistics annually on Gov.uk as part of the Offender
Management Statistics Quarterly collection. This includes a breakdown of the prison
population by number of previous convictions and cautions, as well as age group and
sex. The most recent release can be found on Table A1.19 of the ‘Annual Prison Population:
2019’ file within ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2019’.</p>
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