Question follow-through · 3208
Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure prisoners do not become homeless upon release.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure prisoners do not become homeless upon release.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service delivers a transitional accommodation service, known as the Community Accommodation Service – Tier 3 (CAS3), which offers prison leavers who are subject to probation supervision and at risk of homelessness on rel...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
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10 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what methodology was used to determine a 18 month review period for the new Early Release Scheme.
Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to prevent women being put in danger following the release of perpetrators of domestic violence.
Prisoners' Release: Restraining Orders
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason each prisoner who was released under the revised terms of the early release scheme and had previously breached a restraining order was released.
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4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse and violence who are affected by the early release of some prisoners.
Prisoners' Release: National Security
7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Prison pathfinder meetings are provided with intelligence risk assessments on the release of prisoners that could pose a threat to national security.
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12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to reduce prison officer vacancies in (a) public prisons and (b) prisons run by contractors.
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