Question follow-through · 62456

HMP/YOI Downview

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview on 1 June 2025.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
26 Jun 2025
Answer
2 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview on 1 June 2025.

  2. 26 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The general female estate comprises the establishments in which female prisoners are accommodated. E Wing at HMP/YOI Downview is a special unit: it is not part of the general women's estate. Prisoners on E Wing are located separately from all other prison...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has reviewed the validity of its insurance policies for HMP Downview, in the context of the imprisonment of biological males at that prison.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on staff by prisoners have taken place at (a) HMP Downview and (b) HMP High Down in Banstead in the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males are held in HMP Downview.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

HMP/YOI Downview

7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, how many of the seven males held on E Wing have access to the general women's estate for (a) work and (b) other services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Suicide: Children

17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing inquests into cases of child death by suicide to sit in private.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Men

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males have been placed in E Wing of HMP Downview since 4 July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Men

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview as of 1 August 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Men

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2024 at HMP Downview were committed by

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Men

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2023 at HMP Downview were committed by

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Finance

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether funding of E Wing at HMP Downview comes out of the (a) women's and (b) men's estate budget.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

HMP/YOI Downview: Costs

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost to the public purse is of housing a prisoner in (a) E Wing of HMP Downview and (b) the general women's estate within HMP Downview.

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HMP/YOI Downview

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62454 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether E Wing at HMP Downview is part of the women's estate.