Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 78556

Open Prisons

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving sentences for (a) violent and (b) sexual offences have been transferred to open prisons in the last five years.

Answer

Jake Richards
The relevant data for this PQ has been attached alongside the answer.Prisoners are required to pass thorough risk assessments to become eligible for a move into open conditions, and we retain the ability to return prisoners to closed conditions if there i...

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