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Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
1 May 2025
Answer
8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.

  2. 1 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 May 2025

    Answer published

    This Government inherited a prisons system in crisis and took immediate action to ensure it did not collapse. However, SDS40 was not a long term solution and we are once again at over 99% capacity. Recently, we only had 732 places left across the whole of...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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