Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 65240

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 7 July 2025

Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

Conservative — East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) assumptions and (b) formulae she uses to model prison place need.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

On 11 December 2024, we published the first annual statement on prison capacity, fulfilling our commitment to increased transparency, holding this government and future governments to account.The demand projections used in the annual statement are based o...

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