Question follow-through · 52837
Prison Accommodation: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the male estate prison capacity in 2028.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the male estate prison capacity in 2028.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
This Government inherited a prison system in crisis due to the previous government only adding 500 places to the estate in 14 years. If our prisons collapse, courts are forced to suspend trials. The police must halt their arrests, crime goes unpunished, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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