Prison Accommodation
Commons · Question 43033 · 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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 36626 on Prison Accommodation, what breakdown is available of the figure of a net 28,000 places added to the prison estate in England between 1997 and 2010 in t
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...