Question follow-through · 4495

Prisoners' Release: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people will be released early from prison due to overcapacity in Kent in September 2024; and how many units of accommodation are available for those people.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 5 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 11 Sept 2024
Answer: 11 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people will be released early from prison due to overcapacity in Kent in September 2024; and how many units of accommodation are available for those people.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
As the allocation process is still in progress, the total number of individuals in Kent to be released from custody at 40% of their standard determinate sentence is not yet known. It is also therefore not possible to ascertain how many units of accommodat...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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