Prison Accommodation: Closures
Commons · Question 43036 · 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, what the gross number of prison places removed from the prison estate in England and Wales through permanent closures of whole (a) prisons and (b) wings was between (i) 1997 to 2010 and (ii) 2010 to 2024.
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...