Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 36624

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 10 March 2025

Answered: 25 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of prison places added, (b) number of prison places removed and (c) net change in the number of prison places was in each year from the earliest year for which data are available.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

As previously set out in an ad-hoc release in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024.As we have also previously published, the previous Labour Government added nearly ...

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