Prison Accommodation
Commons · Question 43032 · Tabled 1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will replicate the data line items included in the ad hoc publication Estimate of the number of prison places built and closed between 2010 and 2024, published on 25 October 2025, for each year from the ea
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 9 Apr 2025
The previous Labour Government added nearly 28,000 places to the prison estate between 1997 and 2010. However, available records do not provide a breakdown for these figures of these places by category. The annual breakdown of this net change has been pro...