Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 36626

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 10 March 2025

Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places removed through (a) prisons closing, (b) parts of prisons being removed from use, (c) loss of modular units, (d) reductions in crowding places and (e) other removals was in each y

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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