Prison Sentences
Commons · Question 110305 · Tabled 2 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 10 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by James McMurdock
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Government action to avert summer prison disaster, published on 29 January 2026, what steps he has taken to help ensure that changes to sentencing do not
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 10 Feb 2026
The greatest risk to public safely is the risk of not being able to lock up dangerous offenders. Without the Sentencing Act, which received Royal Assent on 22 January, the country would have completely run out of prison places as early as June this year. ...