Prisons: Overcrowding
Commons · Question 4608 · Tabled 29 May 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment has been made of trends in the level of prison overcrowding.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 8 Jun 2026
Crowding data is published regularly in HMPPS’s Annual Digest, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2024-to-march-2025.The most recent data for the 12 months ending March 2025 shows:The crowding rate in prison...