Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 36625

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 number of prison places added through (a) prisons opening, (b) small secure houseblocks, (c) rapid deployment cells, (d) crowding places and (e) other additions was in each year from the earliest year fo

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

As outlined in the recently published 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, this Government is committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places through the 20,000 prison place programmes, which the previous Government failed to deliver.We are aiming...

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