Question follow-through · 58502
Prisons: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the amount spent on providing (a) football, (b) pool, (c) table-tennis, (d) gym, (e) running, (f) yoga, (g) chess and (h) other sporting activities in prisons in the last
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the amount spent on providing (a) football, (b) pool, (c) table-tennis, (d) gym, (e) running, (f) yoga, (g) chess and (h) other sporting activities in prisons in the last
12 Jun 2025
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12 Jun 2025
Answer published
H M Prison and Probation Service recognises the importance physical activity plays in the overall well-being of prisoners and the effect sport, exercise and movement can have on supporting other programmes designed to reduce offending behaviour.Data on th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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