Prison Accommodation
Commons · Question 45573 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 9 April 2025 to Questions 43036 on Prison Accommodation: Closures and 43032 and 43033 on Prison Accommodation, what the gross addition to prison estate capacity was from (a) new-build p
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 30 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. For the gross additions to prison estate capacity re...