Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 56519

Prisons: Women

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025

Question

Danny Beales

LabourUxbridge and South Ruislip

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to prisons of implementing the Equality and Human Rights Commission's revised code of practice for services, public functions and associations.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
No such estimates have been produced. Any financial consequences from implementing the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised code of practice in prisons will be considered as part of HM Prison and Probation Service’s annual budgeting cycle.