Prison Accommodation
Commons · Question 36625 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places added through (a) prisons opening, (b) small secure houseblocks, (c) rapid deployment cells, (d) crowding places and (e) other additions was in each year from the earliest year fo
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 25 Mar 2025
As outlined in the recently published 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, this Government is committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places through the 20,000 prison place programmes, which the previous Government failed to deliver.We are aiming...