Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 58502

Prisons: Sports

Tabled: 9 June 2025

Answered: 12 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the amount spent on providing (a) football, (b) pool, (c) table-tennis, (d) gym, (e) running, (f) yoga, (g) chess and (h) other sporting activities in prisons in the last

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

H M Prison and Probation Service recognises the importance physical activity plays in the overall well-being of prisoners and the effect sport, exercise and movement can have on supporting other programmes designed to reduce offending behaviour.Data on th...

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