Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 45573

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 17 April 2025

Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 9 April 2025 to Questions 43036 on Prison Accommodation: Closures and 43032 and 43033 on Prison Accommodation, what the gross addition to prison estate capacity was from (a) new-build p

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

The previous Labour Government added nearly 28,000 places to the prison estate between 1997 and 2010. However, available records do not provide a breakdown for these figures of these places by category. For the gross additions to prison estate capacity re...

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