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Question follow-through · 36626

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places removed through (a) prisons closing, (b) parts of prisons being removed from use, (c) loss of modular units, (d) reductions in crowding places and (e) other removals was in each y

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
12 Mar 2025
Answer
25 Mar 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places removed through (a) prisons closing, (b) parts of prisons being removed from use, (c) loss of modular units, (d) reductions in crowding places and (e) other removals was in each y

  2. 12 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    As previously set out in an ad-hoc release in October 2024, the previous Government only managed to increase prison capacity by c.500 places between May 2010 and April 2024.As we have also previously published, the previous Labour Government added nearly ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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