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Prisoners: Death

Commons · Question 91021 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the current total amount of (a) compensation and (b) civil claim payments made to families of prisoners who have died in custody while serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Pr

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 20 Nov 2025

The information requested is not held centrally. Information relating to payments relating to civil claims following the death in custody of prisoners is not broken down by sentence-type. It remains a priority for the Government that all those on IPP sent...