questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who are biologically (a) male and (b) female are housed in prisons designated for the opposite sex.
answerText: As of 1 February 2026, there were seven prisoners on E Wing, the separate unit for transgender women at HMP Downview.The information requested cannot be provided for the general female or male prison estates without breaching our legal obligations under d...
heading: Prisoners: Transgender People