Oral Question·Wales Office
“What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the adequacy of NHS provision in Wales.”
Tabled: 21 February 2023Answered: 1 March 2023
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Wales
Answer from Hansard
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Shabana Mahmood)
The last Government left our prisons in crisis. We came within days of running out of space entirely, and the emergency release programme was designed to stop that crisis happening. Numbers are rising again, which is why this Government are committed to building 14,000 prison places by 2031, compared with the 500 that the last Conservative Government added in 14 years, and to reforming sentencing so that we never run out of prison places again.