Question follow-through · 20060
Prisons: Leicester
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to (a) ensure that current prison expansion plans are sufficient to meet projected demand and (b) prevent potential overcrowding in prisons serving Leicester and the surroundin
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 13 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to (a) ensure that current prison expansion plans are sufficient to meet projected demand and (b) prevent potential overcrowding in prisons serving Leicester and the surroundin
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Our 10-year Prison Capacity strategy published on 11 December sets out plans to deliver 14,000 prison places the previous Government promised but failed to deliver. It also sets out our plans to maintain the places in our estate to ensure we have sufficie...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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