Question follow-through · 10336
Prison Accommodation and Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department plans to take to (a) increase prison capacity and (b) improve rehabilitation services for offenders.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department plans to take to (a) increase prison capacity and (b) improve rehabilitation services for offenders.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
On 22 October, the Lord Chancellor announced the further steps the Government will take to manage prison capacity including launching an independent review of sentencing to ensure that we are never again in a position where we have more prisoners than we ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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