Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 29554

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 6 February 2025

Answered: 14 February 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 26918 on Prisons: Construction, how many existing cells had additional beds installed to increase capacity between (a) May 1997 and May 2010 and (b) May 2010

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

Data on the number of cells which had additional beds installed is not held by the Ministry of Justice for the period requested. Prison crowding data is published annually in Annex 2 of the HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2023 to March 2024 - GOV.UK. This publ...

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