Prison Accommodation
Commons · Question 36626 · 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 removed through (a) prisons closing, (b) parts of prisons being removed from use, (c) loss of modular units, (d) reductions in crowding places and (e) other removals was in each y
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 25 Mar 2025
As previously set out in an ad-hoc release in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024.As we have also previously published, the previous Labour Government added nearly ...